Luckily my argument is not based on any of those things that I never mentioned. The lack of an interstate highway can’t change, and the presence of a well-organized residential neighborhood right next to the campus can’t change. Some of those other things can change over long periods, maybe, but the Tampa Bay Rays are currently homeless. They don’t have a few years down the line. They need to solve their problems ASAP. (And, seriously, a highway connection? Where? How? With what money? Do you have any idea how long it takes to bring that sort of thing from idea to fruition, even when you don’t have to do it over the dead bodies of every resident of Oakwood?)
You’re not buying what they’re selling because you personally wish they had said the opposite of what they said. When developers buy a plot of land and say they want to build a particular thing on it, we generally don’t assume that they’re being deceptive and they secretly want to do the exact opposite of what they said, especially something that would be vastly more expensive and difficult on so many levels. There’s no reason to think that here, other than that you personally wish it were so, and that’s not a good reason. Also, this company has never, not once, actually a built a stadium.
Name one. Literally one.
I have an extremely healthy skepticism–that there will ever, ever be an MLB stadium on SAU’s land.