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MARCH 12, 2008

Trop a UFO?

Tropicana Field has been called a lot of things, but Rays exec Michael Kalt, the point man for the new stadium, took it to a new page in the dictionary with this quote from a John Donovan piece on si.com:

"Part of the reason that baseball hasn't been very successful here in Florida ... really comes down to the venues [do] nothing to highlight that feeling that this is baseball, in Florida," he says. "I mean, they stuck us in a UFO and [the Marlins] in a football stadium."

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