Golf Hockey Motor Sports Preps Other Sports Art Thiel Laura Vecsey Rec. Remember, a snow shovel can double as an air conditioner, if you swing it fast and hard enough at the locals breaking into your new homes. This summer marks the 10th year since Jeff Smulyan's attempt to jerk the Mariners out of Seattle to Tampa.
Current events make the episode ache with irony.
Meanwhile, baseball in Tampa has been so unsuccessful that the Devil Rays, along with their cross-state rivals, the Florida Marlins, are threatened by the commissioner of baseball with dissolution. Anyone who forecast these turns of events in 1991, please meet me at the sports book in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where we can create investments leading to our mutual retirements. Lack of corporate support, lack of local broadcast revenues, substandard attendance, no luxury suites or outdoor baseball. Bogus as was the premise, panic was afoot in Seattle, where the city faced the prospect of losing major league baseball for a second time. So his exit strategy featured a move after the '92 season.