#HMBlog: New Era's Tampa Bay Rays edition of ‘Local Market’ hat omits Tropicana Field’s 727 area code
Photo from New Era
The Tampa Bay Rays are on fire. They’ve won 11 straight and just took possession of first place in the AL East. Yes, there is still a lot of baseball to play but there is a buzz in St. Petersburg about their hometown team. Someone better tell that to New Era, the hat company who is the exclusive hat provider of Major League Baseball since 1993.
Each year, New Era puts out a “Local Market” edition of each baseball cities hometown. This year, the Rays cap features the state of Florida and the number 1998 in reference to the team’s inaugural season as well as Florida staples including a flamingo, a palm tree, and an orange. Also, the area code “813” is featured on the front of the cap. 813 which is centered on Tampa and includes surrounding communities such as Brandon, Land O’ Lakes, Oldsmar, Riverview, Thonotosassa, Town ‘n’ Country, Valrico and Zephyrhills.
The Rays play in St. Petersburg however, the 727 area code, which is not featured on the hat. The Rays may not be in St. Pete for long, with talks in process to redevelop the Trop site after the City of St. Pete and the Rays lease contract ends in 2027. However, for now, they reside in St. Pete, the 727! If nothing else, in the age of disinformation spreading across the internet, we need accuracy now more than ever. New Era needs to either fix this mistake or St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman needs to draft a militia to take over Tampa and surrounding area’s to win the battle of disinformation- either is fine with me.
#HMBlog: St. Pete Mayor Kriseman: Rays "Shared City" Talks Are Over
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA - The chatter of sharing the Rays with our neighbors to the north are over (at least for a few years). This afternoon Mayor Rick Kriseman issued a letter detailing the end of negotiations with the Rays for their “shared city” concept. In which, the Rays would have played half the season in St. Petersburg and half in Montreal.
Major Takeaways from the letter:
The Rays will abide by the current deal and will play at the Trop full time, at least until 2028.
The Rays declined an offer to allow them to look for stadium site in the Tampa Bay area.
Kriseman won’t use public funds to build a stadium for a part-time team, but will consider it for a full-time one.
"I continue to believe that the Rays Organization will come to determine that the Tampa Bay area, and specifically St. Pete, remains the best place to play baseball and to succeed in the long term," Kriseman said in the letter.
What do you think about the letter and the team staying put? Comment below.
#HMB 260 - Midterm Madness & Chasing Dumb Dreams
The Midterm 2018 elections came and went…uh…are still coming, everywhere, all over everything so watch your eyes. The D team took control back of the House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi promised a tone down of the rhetoric when “they win” but so far, it’s as bad as ever. Florida, of course, unable to be normal for anything is in the news. Three of the elections were so close that they are in a recount. Matt Caldwell was declared the winner of the Agriculture Commissioner but has since been overtaken by Nikki Fried. Rob…Ron? Desantos? Him. He is the new Governor! Oh, uh, yea, that one is also probably headed to a recount. Of course, Rick Scott, who spent over 20 million dollars of his own money to get a job that pays $174,000 a year won his race with Bill “I’m not wearing a Halloween costume, that’s my face” Nelson. Except no, that one in is in a recount too and he’s suing Broward County over possible election fraud.
This isn’t the first time Dr. Brenda Snipes has had election drama. In May, a judge ruled she illegally destroyed ballots. Somehow, she still has her job. Of course, the D’s are just saying they want all the ballots counted, that’s it, nothing more to see here but you can’t blame the R’s for being suspicious of just finding all these ballots just laying around. It’s sketchy, that’s all I’m saying and if you don’t think so, you’re an ideologue, plain and simple. So we’ll see what happens, no matter what happens you can be sure that we will be the one’s to pay the price.
Anyhooser, this week on the pod I tell you how Amendment 9 (the ban on Offshore Drilling and Vaping inside a workplace) came to be and should you follow your dream at any price?
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#HMB 243 - Rays & Ferry's...Ray Ferry, Attorney at Law.
#HMBradio Dome has a nice ring to it...
The Homemade Broadcast this week: will Tampa be getting that new proposed stadium site in Ybor city? I need some love advice & the CrossBay Ferry may be making a comeback by the end of the year, will you use it?
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Russia's Prime Target: Tampa Bay? & #HMB 224 - Where there's a Will there's a Johnny B (@johnnybcomedy)
Johnny B & Your Boy Bill in the Fat Cave Studio 2/28/2018
I’ve only met one person from Russia in my life. Actually, I think he was from Ukraine or somewhere Eastern European but for this instance its close enough. He was one of the weirdest human beings I have ever met in my life. He gave me a business card as he introduced himself. It wasn’t from his job, it was just a card he had made on one of those “10,000 cards for 3 bucks” websites. It was his card- I can’t remember exactly what it said but I held onto it for years because it was so funny. It was even funnier because this dude was one-hundred-percent-serious. It said something along the lines of “Liver of Life and lover of women” with his name and phone number on it on top of a photo of a glass of red wine. What a psycho, right? He was almost an albino with fine, almost white hair. He looked like a little naked mole rat. He spoke English well but spoke like he was part of the monarchy, it was highborn British English like he was over-the-top auditioning for a school play putting on a Shakespeare production.
That can’t be what normal Russians are like. I would never want to go to Russia in a million years, it looks like it sucks, sorry. They’re famous for their auto insurance scams where people try to get hit for the insurance money and it has become such a big business that everyone has a dash-cam to prove their innocence. Sure, it’s entertaining for the internet but holy-moly, what a risk. Is potential death worth it for a few hundred bucks? In Russia, maybe…
We’re all talking about the Russians now. They stand accused as being the biggest troll country in the world that use the internet and unsuspecting citizens of the US to carry out their agenda which appears to be to disrupt and get us to fight with each other. From Facebook posts that I’ve seen, it appears to be working like gangbusters.
The other threat, of course, is a Nuclear Holocaust with the nation and mutually assured destruction of the world. “The Russian president presented a video animation suggesting Florida – home of the US military’s central command – is a nuclear target” was the by-line in the Guardian last week with a picture of King Vlad next to St. Pete’s own Grey Fox and sultry bearded Mayor Rick Krisman flanking him to the left. Me—owwwwwww. “We trust the inclusion of our region in that video was simply random,” he said of the video. One thing is for sure- if it goes down, it will be swift and painless for us over in Tampa Bay.
This week on the podcast my pal and radio mentor Johnny B stops by. We talk about the current condition of comedy, the radio business and our love for those things. See when Johnny B is performing stand-up comedy in the area at this website HERE and tune into The Johnny B Show on 102.5 The Bone every weeknight at 10PM.
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