Financial support for new Rays stadium in better shape than previously announced

Last Friday, the corporate non-profit, Tampa Bay Rays 2020, which is supporting the Rays push for a new stadium, held a press conference that only muddied the waters in Tampa Bay.

With only one of the group’s two key business leaders in attendance at a late Friday afternoon press conference, the Tampa Bay Rays 2020 group announced five planning committees that did not include any significant political figure from the Tampa community, nor many baseball players from Tampa’s past (former catcher Toby Hall was perhaps the most notable name involved).

During the event, the group only casually noted the financial commitments received to date — a significant piece of news that was not made clear to…