As the Major League Baseball season returns on Thursday, so too comes the return of all the great baseball traditions. The ceremonial first pitch, the seventh-inning stretch, and a Florida franchise that has sold off its best players asking taxpayers for millions of dollars for a new stadium.

The Tampa Bay Rays are looking to build a new stadium in Hillsborough County that could cost as much as $800 million. The only “problem,” according to the Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg, is that the team might be able to kick in only $150 million, leaving $650 million for a new stadium to be picked up by taxpayers.