Call me crazy.

Call me delusional.

Call me the last optimist standing.

Call me the only one who believes Orlando’s longshot bid to bring the Tampa Bay Rays to Orlando was actually enhanced earlier this week when major investor Dr. Rick Workman defected to an ownership group that already has a deal in place to buy the Rays.

When news broke on Monday that the Orlando Dreamers — the group started by late, great Magic founder Pat Williams in 2019 in an effort to bring MLB to Central Florida — had lost their two biggest financial backers (Workman and billionaire attorney John Morgan), it sounded like Central Florida’s six-year attempt to land a Major League Baseball team had finally struck out. But if you step back and look at the bigger picture, this development might actually improv

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