The clock isn't ticking, it's thumping.
Second by second, and dollar by dollar, time is running out for a baseball stadium that, in some ways, is 30 years overdue in Tampa.
That city, along with Hillsborough County, has one month left to convince the Tampa Bay Rays that a viable financing plan exists to pay at least half the cost, and probably more, of a $900 million stadium on the edge of Ybor City. Come Dec. 31, the window of opportunity is supposed to contractually close. Perhaps for seven years. Perhaps for good.
Meanwhile, across the bay, a rival mayor sounds relaxed.