The Tampa Bay Rays need a new ball field so they won't be getting! Why you ask?

[imanamerican63]

Well Governor DeSantis vetoed funding because the Rays Organization’s tweets about gun control!

How petty are these people! I know, just yelling out loud! It’s their power of evil and don’t care about their dangerous ways of governing!

[Maine Abu El Banat]

1. Billionaires should not be asking taxpayer

For money to build a stadium. DeSantis is a dick for his reasons, but the owners of the Ray's should finance the stadium themselves. That money that would go to a stadium, could go to the homeless and hungry.

[rurallib]

2. Amen to that

[doc03]

3. I agree the billionaire owners want a new stadium they threaten to move and the taxpayers

end up building it for them. But DeSantis is an ass.

[tanyev]

4. Fair point, but I doubt that DeSantis would have vetoed it if they'd kept quiet about gun control.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

6. Of course not

Repervs have no problem giving billions to the rich while children starve

[Celerity]

7. [phone]

[VGNonly]

8. Support the separation

of sport and state.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

9. .

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Good one.

Have to remember that one.

It is the reason why the Dallas Cowboys aren't in Dallas. We refused to pass corporate welfare to build a billion dollar stadium.

[jimfields33]

12. Agreed! Finally we don't have to fund a stadium

Should have been done in all cities and states with stadiums. Let them pay for it. Thank you for some needed common sense. Bravo!

[lark]

5. Sue his ass to high heaven, the Rays should win this.

death sentence is a full on christofascist who believes all laws are for and by the rich and the he can ignore any law that doesn't fit that criteria.

[SYFROYH]

11. The Rays made a big deal out of donating to Everytown and sharing their info

While I dont agree with Desantis withholding funding for this reason the tweets were more than just tweets.

Play political games, win political prizes

[modrepub]

13. What's Good For The Goose

Is good for the Gander. If Dems don't like someone or something then they should follow suite. Cut gov funding to opponents. That seems to be fine in the Republican playbook now. Why not ours?

[we can do it]

14. What's wrong with the field they have, it's not that old.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

15. Exactly

Fenway and Wrigley fields are each over a century old.

[Chainfire]

16. State funding of a private facility, while absurd, is not the important thing here.

While I disagree with states supporting billionaires, it happens everywhere, and should be nixxed.

The important thing is that the governor is using his power, granted by the people, to shut down publicly stated opinions that are in contrast to his. I see that as a clear abuse of power. It is the same tact he took with Disney. It is only a small step from using the power of the state to shut down dissention from individuals as well. DeSantis is just the type of tyrant that Republicans have been looking for to lead us to a one party system. He has all of the qualifications to be a Republican president. A propensity to lead by decree, no morals, no ethics, no compassion and full support of corporatocracy. It there has ever been a dangerous American politician, this is the man. If I could vote in a Republican primary, I would select Trump, every day, over this man.

[DonCoquixote]

17. two assh**es trying to wear a tin halo

Now, normally I would love no funding of the Rays, BUT, we cannto forget that destaan is makign a precedent, obey me or get no funds.

[former9thward]

18. Stop giving tax money to billionaire owners and millionaire players.

I don't care what the reason is. I have no sympathy for the team. Find another state to be a parasite in.

[genxlib]

19. There is a lot of bad information floating around about this

First of all, it isn’t for a new stadium. A new stadium would probably require a billion. This is for a spring training facility linked to the Rays.

But even that is misleading because the funding was actually for Pasco County to build an training and tournament facility that COULD be leased to the Rays for spring training. Otherwise it would be used by the public

These kinds of tournament sites are big tourism draws. If you’ve never known a family involved in “travel” baseball then you would be shocked how much they spend going from tournament to tournament. In other words they can be a very good investment in a community.

Having said that, I don’t doubt that desantis did it out of pure political spite.