Rays Radio’s Neil Solondz has been in San Diego this week at the Winter Meetings, recording podcasts along the way. His most recent featured Rays President Matt Silverman, who shed light on what his conversations are like at the Winter Meetings, where the focus invariably comes back to the proposed split-city plan with Montreal, by attempting to clarify the team’s position:
Here at the meetings, and when Brian [Auld] and I are at the owner’s meetings, we get questions from other team officials, executives, from former players, and they say, “Why are you trying so hard to save baseball in Tampa Bay, why don’t you just do the easy thing and move it to Nashville, or Portland, or Vegas, or some place that’s really excited and ready to take on a team?