Rays co-Presidents Brian Auld and Matt Silverman were interviewed this week by the team’s podcast regarding the struggles the team has faced following the damage to Tropicana Field that displaced the team for 2025. It was a humanizing and compelling retelling of the challenges the front office faced. At first.
Unfortunately, the tone shifted dramatically when the interviewer Chris Adams-Wall asked “what happened” this fall regarding the Rays claims the New Stadium project was dead, and it was here the the team’s co-Presidents resorted to bold face lies.
Sounding as though he was reading from a pre-written script, Matt Silverman stated the following:
It was the County Commission who made the choice to abandon the agreement, for reasons we really don’t understand and can only speculate on.