Many more details about the maneuverings to get baseball back to Montreal emerging:
http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/quebec/201411/07/01-4816647-retour-du-baseball-lequipe-dactionnaires-prend-forme.php
If you don't read French: basically some big-money quebecois, including Bronfman-fils, and Bell are scheming. After the success of the spring-training games in Montreal, contacted several teams to express their interest and seriousness in bringing baseball back to Montreal. Specifically, they had two meetings with Rays ownership last spring. Speculation that it could be challenging to come up with enough cash to both buy a team and build a new stadium….and that governmental involvement in financing a stadium is very unlikely.
In parallel, it looks like there is about to be a breakthrough in the impasse between the Rays and St. Petersburg, with the city finally allowing the team to look at other sites in the region, i.e. Tampa.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg-and-tampa-bay-rays-could-be-near-agreement-to-allow/2206014
The new St. Pete Mayor has made it a priority to resolve the situation with the Rays, plus it's sounding like the Trop land is becoming more valuable and there is interest from developers in doing other things on the site that could be of interest to the city.
My take has been that the Montreal thing is leverage for Stu to get a sweet stadium deal from the various Tampa Bay area governments. Looks like that could play out quite nicely for him, and it's sounding like there could be some momentum to get it resolved sooner rather than later. New stadium and signing a huge new local TV deal in 2017…watch out! We may see a payroll north of $100m!!