Today, according to Josh Solomon of the Tampa Bay Times, Stu Sternberg will formally meet with Mayor Rick Kriseman for the first time since the Rays announced a desire to explore a split residency between St. Petersburg and Montreal.
In this meeting, it is assumed that Sternberg and Rays President (good cop) Brian Auld will formally ask for permission to explore the two-stadium solution, a proposal Kriseman has been hearing about from the Rays informally for some time. We do not know whether Kriseman is inclined to grant this request. He has previously said that any permission to talk to Montreal would come at a cost.