#HMBlog - Tampa Bay Rays explore plan to split home games between St. Petersburg & Montreal

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - As if we needed any more reasons to hate Canada, the Tampa Bay Rays announced today that they are exploring a plan to play some of the Rays home games in Montreal. According to ESPN, MLB’s attorney’s gave the okay to the plan in which the Rays would play the first half of the season in St. Petersburg and the second half north of the border in Montreal. The Rays issued a statement on Twitter confirming the plan:

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— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) June 20, 2019

So, it’s come to this…we should have bombed Canada once the Raptors won the NBA title like I wanted but instead we’ll have to share our baseball team like some single mom because you people wouldn’t go to games. The good news is that now us Floridan’s have an excuse to go vacation in Canada to see our boys. I hope we drive slow in the passing lane and we won’t tip.

What do you think about the plan? Comment below & let us know.

UPDATE: The plan appears to be dead according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times:

St. Pete Mayor Kriseman, as expected, says he won't allow #Rays to make deal with Montreal https://t.co/OArNrbfPlP

— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) June 20, 2019

#HMBlog: Tropicana Field has a 36 minute power outage due to a fallen bird's nest.

It’s 2019, you can get your Amazon order in hours, send messages to your friends and family almost instantly with a computer that fits in your pocket and order a prostitute from an app but the power grid just hasn’t been figured out yet. Patrons at last night’s Rays game against the Angels had to deal with a 36 minute power outage (first world problem, I know) after a bird’s nest fell into Duke Energy’s Florida’s 16th Street substation three blocks away. I also lost power and my apartment for two minutes (don’t worry, I’m fine but it was a tough 2 minutes). The crowd pulled out their phone’s and turned on the flashlight between ordering prostitutes on the app and created a makeshift Van Halen concert which was pretty cool.

I say this as someone not on deadline: It’s kind of cool. #trop pic.twitter.com/yUD2AdIqBo

— Greg Auman (@gregauman) June 14, 2019

Even more impressive was the stout 15,000+ fans in attendance for the game, nice job community! No word on the baby birds in the nest but I think it’s safe to assume that they’re dead. :(