Ken Babby
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Oct 26, 2026
Steve LaScalzoHOST
And it's nice when you hear pro teams viewing each other as neighbors.
Steve LaScalzoHOST
Rays CEO Ken Babby noted the rival Yankees' prior assistance in providing Steinbrenner Field as a temporary home last season.
Steve LaScalzoHOST
Of course, if you're a Rays fan, you know about the damage from the hurricane in 2024 to Tropicana Field.
Steve LaScalzoHOST
Babby also acknowledged both the Bucks and the Lightning have already earned the Champa Bay enrollment with Super Bowls and Stanley Cups, but the Rays still have to take home a trophy.
Ryan BassGUEST
And I think it starts with, and I have to credit, you know, the leadership of Stu Sternberg, you know, the race principal owner for many, many years until this year.
Ryan BassGUEST
where Patrick Zalupski, Ken Babby, and Bill Cosgrove took over as the main three primary owners of this group.
Ryan BassGUEST
What Stu had built in the environment and the culture and the analytical way of winning, it became somewhat of a phenomenon that people didn't really understand.
Ryan BassGUEST
I understand Moneyball and what Billy Bean and the Oakland A's did, but you look at what the Rays have continually done since 2008.
Eric FisherCORRESPONDENT
There are some really good things going on in that market, and they're kind of building a newer and larger fan base almost in real time.
Eric FisherCORRESPONDENT
This was the first full season of the new ownership group led by Patrick Zalupski and Ken Babby.
Eric FisherCORRESPONDENT
They got a stadium deal done after many years of fits and starts on that.
Eric FisherCORRESPONDENT
Groundbreaking is going to be coming up pretty soon.
JP PetersonHOST
Come on.
Orestes DestradeHOST
The biggest proponent other than Ken Babby at the stadium.
Orestes DestradeHOST
I thought you were talking about CBA-wise.
Orestes DestradeHOST
The biggest guy that talks about the stadium other than you.
Orestes DestradeHOST
Mo Money.
Orestes DestradeHOST
Other than Ken Babby and Charlie Miranda has been you.
Orestes DestradeHOST
Those are the three biggest people that talk about the stadium.
JP PetersonHOST
Baseball will never work in the South.
Mark CorbettHOST
And if you had told me a year ago, before we had new owners, that all this would transpire, I would have laughed at you.
Mark CorbettHOST
But once this new ownership group came in, Ken Babby, Mike Cosgrove, Pat Zalewski, they have just turned things around as far as the energy that's coming out of the Rays Tropicana Stadium.
Josh WeaverGUEST
I agree with you a thousand percent, Mark.
Josh WeaverGUEST
And not only that, you and I both still know some folks that work at Tropicana.
David SamsonHOST
But when Patrick Zalupski took over the team back in September of 2025, he took over knowing what the rules of engagement were.
David SamsonHOST
It's not a secret or a surprise or even interesting that his partners, one of them is Bill Cosgrove and one is Ken Babby.
David SamsonHOST
Ken Babby is my role, he's the president of the team, and he comes with baseball experience.
David SamsonHOST
Bill Cosgrove, his major partner, I'm talking about Patrick Zalewski, the control person, Bill Cosgrove, his major number one partner, is the CEO of a mortgage company.
David SamsonHOST
The mortgage company is based in Ohio, but what Bill Cosgrove brings to this group basically is that he is really good at understanding how to finance and build development around a stadium.
David SamsonHOST
But when Patrick Zalupski took over the team back in September of 2025, he took over knowing what the rules of engagement were.
David SamsonHOST
It's not a secret or a surprise or even interesting that his partners, one of them is Bill Cosgrove and one is Ken Babby.
David SamsonHOST
Ken Babby had, is it my role, he's the president of the team, and he comes with baseball experience.
David SamsonHOST
Bill Cosgrove, his major partner, I'm talking about Patrick Zalewski, the control person, Bill Cosgrove, his major number one partner, is the CEO of a mortgage company.
David SamsonHOST
The mortgage company is based in Ohio, but what Bill Cosgrove brings to this group, basically, is that he is really good at understanding how to finance and build development around a stadium.
Patrick ZalupskiGUEST
We...
Patrick ZalupskiGUEST
We've got the best baseball organization in the world, Eric Neander, Kevin Cash, Ken Babby.
Patrick ZalupskiGUEST
These guys, this entire organization works tirelessly to put the best team on the field to compete every day, in and out.
Patrick ZalupskiGUEST
And this trophy back here, this is for you, Tampa Bay.
23 MINS LATER
Andy FreedHOST
They set up the structure for all of this.
Andy FreedHOST
I think of them and Stu and all the other people that have come through the Rays organization, whether it now be in other organizations or out of baseball or whatever.
Andy FreedHOST
But kudos to Ken Babby and Patrick Zalupski and Bill Cosgrove, their franchise that they bought, what, less than a year ago, a little bit more than a year ago, right around the same month.
Andy FreedHOST
They now are the American League champions.
Dan HickenHOST
The Rays have better starting.
Dan HickenHOST
And shout out to Big Z, our friend Patrick Zalupski and Ken Babby.
Dan HickenHOST
Ken Babby helped Jacksonville win a championship.
Dan HickenHOST
He's running the baseball show down there with the owner, Patrick Zalupski, who is the DreamFinders guy.
Dan HickenHOST
And so, like you said yesterday, and they got on the stage last night.
Lauren BrooksHOST
The only one that was on that team and then also on this one.
Tom McManusHOST
How about Patrick and Ken Babby, man? It's pretty
Lauren BrooksHOST
awesome.
Lauren BrooksHOST
Yes, for Jacksonville people watching last night, that was so cool.
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