NPDS - Tampa Bay Rays HALT plans for new stadium in St. Pete! Rockies owner calls for salary cap! Should Cooper Flagg sit out of tourney? (Episode 1235)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’check’ as in not check mate yet as in the Rays as in St. Pete as in Tampa as in new stadium. Here we are again. The Rays have announced they are not moving forward with a new stadium in St. Pete right no. Nice. So now what? Is this just more negotiating? Is this the team trying to get to Tampa? Is a sale coming? (19:20) We have more owner fights about to start. This time it’s Rockies owner Dick Monfort publicly calling for salary caps. And the Reds owner is in on it too. (25:30) The Marlins want to hire you. Seriously. You can go play for the team! (34:25) Review: Babygirl. (36:40) Should Cooper Flagg sit out the tournament? (41:00) Marquette head coach Shaka Smart says he will not negotiate deals with agents of players. They get paid what they get paid, and that’s it. (46:25) UNLV cannot pay its head coach Dan Mullen. What? (52:04) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.1	In January of this year, Mayor Welch chose that Heinz raised proposal.
0:56.0	Today we celebrate coming to terms on an agreement to make that plan a reality. Major League Baseball is here to stay right here.
1:00.0	I have no interest in working with this ownership group.
1:03.0	They've got a set of agreements that they signed in July 31st or August 1st of last year that we all agreed to.
1:15.2	Why would I go back to the same group and trust them this time?
1:20.6	That bridge has been burned.
1:22.6	We'll meet our obligations.
1:24.7	If there's a new ownership group, I'm perfectly willing to have that conversation.
1:30.6	The first voice you heard and the first face you saw was Stu Sternberg in September of
1:36.8	2003, celebrating the eternal quest for a new stadium and celebrating the fact that the Tampa Bay Devil
1:45.9	Rays, nay, the Tampa Bay Rays would be in St. Petersburg in perpetuity.
1:52.8	It was a celebration for all in September of 2023.
1:57.4	And then there was a renewed celebration.
2:00.2	Another announcement in July of 24 when agreements were signed and passed by all of the local municipal authorities, county and city, that a new ballpark and a huge development would happen in St. Petersburg.
2:16.0	And then a hurricane hit. And then Stu Sturmberg let it be
2:20.1	known to you that they may not go forward because the stadium would be a year delayed. It would be more
2:26.7	expensive. They needed more money. The second voice you heard in that clip was the current mayor of
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