"I doubt much will come from the ballyhooed meeting today between St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster and Tampa Bay Rays owner Stu Sternberg about a new baseball stadium, unless Foster's head explodes from holding his breath until the team agrees to a new deal in Pinellas County.

While that would be entertaining, it probably won't happen. So in the interests of seeing Tropicana Field go one-on-one with a wrecking ball as quickly as possible, let's move this thing along, shall we?

Mayor Foster, you're wasting oxygen and time in arguing to keep the Rays in St. Petersburg. Ain't gonna happen, no matter how many times you wave that lease in Sternberg's face that theoretically binds them to the Trop."