Complex sentence: Another team was to have been added in Orlando named either the Manatees or String Rays but, in a debacle that had now become a pattern, the presumptive ownership group failed to appear at the press conference announcement in January 1994.
Split into simpler sentences: Another team was to have been added in Orlando named either the Manatees or String Rays. However, in a debacle that had now become a pattern, the presumptive ownership group failed to appear at the press conference announcement in January 1994.