Ken Babby
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2,003 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 May
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Uh and I and I think, you know, when you take a look back thirty years from now, if you and I are sitting here in this podcast studio and you said did you think it was a good deal, I think you're going to look back and say it's one of the best decisions that the community's ever made.
Yeah.
There's a th th the easy solution for that is we're here with our checkbooks ready to write a check.
to Tampa Bay, right?
We're w you know, w we we believe in this.
I mean, I think there's such a strong conviction from our ownership group that this is the right thing to do, uh, that we're saying, look, we're we're gonna fund north of fifty percent of the cost of the ballpark.
We're also, and we've said this uh publicly, but it's worth reiterating, we're gonna pay a hundred percent of the cost of the cost overruns.
And let's be honest, you look at these projects, we're gonna run a responsible project, but our friends in Vegas that are building a ballpark right now, I was just out there, you know, they broke ground this past year in twenty twenty five.
They're opening in April.
They committed over a billion.
That's correct.
So so you've got a dynamic at play where we've got to make a responsible decision and we're trying to mitigate all of the public risk in the project.
Uh and um and the outcome, of course, will have, you know, over thirty-two billion dollars of economic impact to our region with help from the state that, you know, you heard the governor, you've heard the commissioner.
I think everybody recognizes baseball belongs in Tampa Bay.
Bay and baseball should be in Tampa Bay.
And now people are willing to write a check to support that.
And we're going to do our part and we're going to lead the way.
that question.
Yeah, we'll we'll keep doing economic studies all day.
And uh so we're data driven, right?
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