The solution of what to do about baseball in Tampa—a team that draws little to no fan interest in terms of paid attendance and plays its games in a haunted unfinished basement—has plagued MLB almost since the franchise’s inception. Relocation, contraction, a new stadium—you name it, the league and the team have explored it, only to find each and every avenue cut off. The Rays’ complicated existence is baseball’s Gordian knot.
The latest attempt to cut through that rope, though, might be the wackiest and dumbest yet. Per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Major League Baseball has granted the Rays permission to seek operating in two cities at once by partially relocating to Montreal, the former home of the Expos.