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REPORTING FROM ... BANDWAGON NATION

By David Higdon

Friday, October 3, 2008

"You want a real taste of Tampa Bay baseball?" Rays fan Gary Foster asks me over his breakfast at The Dome Grill, a diner within spitting distance of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. "Come back here next summer when they're playing Kansas City." Just last night, more than 30,000 fans cheered on the former Devil Rays to a 6-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. But you'd never know it this morning at The Dome Grill. "Baseball people," sniffs owner Michael Karamalakos, "they come in for t ...

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