It is clear what we most need to happen in the sure-to-be-bastardized 2025 baseball season, and that is for the Tampa Bay Rays and West Sacramento Athletics to not only reach the postseason but to fight their way to a match-up in the American League Championship Series.
For big league teams, that amount of money is a rounding error, but as a metaphor—the poverty-unravaged Yankees getting more financial oomph in their pursuit of Juan Soto while the Rays scramble to re-up Jose Siri—it is exquisite.
The Rays lost their stadium roof and other hunks and chunks of Tropicana Field to Hurricane Milton, which is not necessarily the fault of the industry; it's what insurance people call an act of god.
The WestSacs, for their part, lost their soul, dignity, and reason for existing because one fatuous dope simply cannot get his business right, and wouldn't bother if he could.
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