With the $1.7 billion offer for the Rays from Patrick Zalupski's ownership group formally accepted and finalized, a new era with the franchise has officially begun.

The Rays certainly aren't the only team to have recent ownership changes, so we talked with Orioles podcaster Josh Sroka & beat writer Andy Kostka about what the David Rubenstein era has been like so far.

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