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Do Rays have future in bay area?

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07:17 AM ET 11.17 | Do the Rays have a future in the Tampa Bay area? The answer, Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg recently said, may not be clear until next spring, or possibly September. "To operate here, we have to have sponsors, and have season-ticket holders, and have TV revenue, to have any chance of this thing working," he told a visiting reporter. Sternberg's remarks could simply be a push for a new stadium. But he has good reason to question whether the Tampa Bay area can support a baseball team in the long run. Despite two relatively large population centers and a history of spring training, the Tampa Bay area remains one of the poorest, oldest and most fractured communities with a major league baseball team, according to a St. Petersburg Times analysis of the 25 U.S. baseball markets.

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