There have been plenty of harebrained ideas down through the years.
New Coke. Hair in a Can. The Godfather Part III. Auto-Tune. The Ford Pinto.
Well, it's time to add another one to the Hall of Shame:
The Tampa Bay Rays' nonsensical scheme to play half their home games in one city, the other half in another city some 1,500 miles away.
In two different countries, for that matter.
Strangely, a franchise that does pretty much everything right on the field — the low-budget team made it to the World Series last season and is heading back to the playoffs with the best record in the American League — keeps messing things up away from the diamond.