As I first noted yesterday in a post at Reddit's r/mlb subreddit that moderators deleted — with my best guess being that they're afraid of looking political — repairs to the hurricane-shredded roof at the Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field could be affected by Trump's tariffs.
Per ESPN, on the decision by the St. Petersburg City Council voting $22.5 million to repair the roof, which must be fixed before other repairs can be done:
Under the proposed timeline, the roof installation will take about 10 months. The unique membrane system is fabricated in Germany and assembled in China, Quintana said, adding that officials are examining how President Donald Trump's new tariffs might affect the cost.
Again, I don't know, but IF that's why the post was deleted, it's pretty chickenshit. It may be an auto-delete, in that moderators have the sub automatically haul down anything with "Trump" in it. Still sad, if not totally chickenshit, if that's so.
Let's note that Canada has an MLB team. Multiple MiLB teams. Besides tariffs, various US-Canada tussles could have a pro baseball effect. Ditto on the NBA and NHL. Issues like visas for MLB's and MiLB's many Caribbean players, for example.
Besides, that was the third pull quote from the story, not the first.
As for the issue there? I copy-pasted, with added notes, and a link to the original r/MLB post, to my subreddit. I'm not enough of a Reddit genius to know if tagging a sub does anything other than a URL link, as in, does it give mods a heads-up or not?
And, I keep saying I should be on Reddit less. One more of its Farmville-style awards, and, at least as far as posting, and possibly commenting on larger subs, too, I still plan on making that happen.
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