Tampa Bay residents don’t want to pay to build a new stadium for the Rays:

A recent St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 telephone survey showed that two-thirds of Tampa Bay area residents oppose paying taxes for a new stadium — even if that means the team would leave the area. Only a quarter of residents would open their wallets to keep the Rays in town.

This antitax sentiment, coming on the heels of light rail flameout in Hillsborough, presents a stiff challenge to the Rays, who want to replace the Trop, and to business leaders and politicians looking for ways to finance a new venue.

Good. Nice to see the public starting to wake up to the losses new stadiums put on a community.