After the St. Petersburg City Council trashed seven years of stalemate over a a technicality, they held a workshop to discuss the Stadium situation and conversationally decided the Rays' only viable option was to stay in Tropicana Field so they should just do that.
Let's recap:
- The current stadium lease is actually a Use Agreement with the City of St. Petersburg that runs through 2027 and prohibits the Rays from considering future sites for the team outside the city limits throughout the life of the agreement.
- After nearly a decade of stalemate and enough insults of various kinds, the Rays decided they would no longer negotiate with the City Council in open forums, and instead focus efforts through an intermediary from the city, namely the Mayor of St.