"Everybody gets behind a winner."
-- Jane Castor
The Tampa Bay Rays are hot in mid-August, and a return to the World Series appears possible.
Meanwhile, in Tampa, the summer has been warming confidence levels that the city will be the final destination of the St. Petersburg major-league baseball team. Or at least its spring host.
Mayor Jane Castor has long been a proponent of a regional solution to the Rays 14-year-long stadium search, but as Mayor Rick Kriseman’s term draws down in the Sunshine City, Castor was succinct when asked about the team’s best option in the bay area: Tampa.
“I believe that the most viable location for the Tampa Bay Rays is in the city of Tampa,” Castor said in an interview last week.
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