Pinellas County commissioners wrote a letter to Rays' Presidents Brian Auld and Matthew Silverman saying they need to decide if the stadium deal will move forward or be terminated by Sunday.

Tampa Bay’s Matthew Silverman, who was a team president for nearly a decade before he led baseball operations, has experience in both roles, but it doesn’t appear he did them both simultaneously.

Matt Silverman is a consulting petroleum geologist and a past-president of the Petroleum History Institute, based in Oil City. The opinions expressed are his.