AL East Champs are done.

Fat lady sings, and Carlos Pena strikes out again.

Are Shoppach and Johnson just more of Maddon's hunches?

Maddon's hunches would never be allowed on professional teams like the Yankees or Red Sox.

As you were reading this, Cliff Lee struck out two more Rays.

Don't we wish we had hitters like Josh Hamilton?

All Yankee Haters, just became Rangers fans.  Go Rangers.
At least fans in Tampa can still listen to the Yankees on the radio.
Pitchers & Catchers report in 124 days.

Best Team in Baseball staves off elimination for one more day

Bats come alive, after 25 innings of playoff baseball

October 7, 2010

 

Pitchers and Catchers Report in 128 Days

NUMERO UNO

Yankees Fans are Taking to stabbing Red Sox Fans...again. 

Top 10 Reasons I Don’t Go to Rays Games at the Trop

Top 10 Reasons I Don’t Go to Rays Games at the Trop


We have heard countless reasons from area residents for not attending games in downtown St. Petersburg, where the stadium is one of the most easily accessible sports arenas in the nation. Here are the ten most often-heard excuses this season.
 
10. “I’ve been banned ever since I tried to see if the annoying jerk next to me could blow his vuvuzela through his ah-noos.”
9. “I’m afraid one of the catwalks will fall on me.”
8. “I get lost when I try to find the Trop’s First Avenue entrance from the Interstate’s Fifth Avenue exit.”
7. “There’s no Nordstrom’s or Saks on that side of Tampa Bay.”
6. “Too many obnoxious Packer fans.”
5. “I lost my cowbell in a canasta game.”
4. “I keep forgetting that I can eat before I go to the game and not spend an extra eighty dollars on cold hot dogs and
stale beer.”
3. “Raymond scares my children — and they’re in their thirties.”
2. “I can’t find three other people to go with me so I can get the full-car parking discount.”
And the Number One reason I don’t go to Rays games at the Trop in St. Petersburg:
1. “I live in Tampa — so, of course, I only attend Yankee games!”
 


P.S.: You know that St. Paul is not Minneapolis. You know that Fort Worth is not Dallas. So what’s so hard about recognizing that St. Petersburg isn’t Tampa?

No words necessary

 

 

Baseball Prospectus: Red Sox just 10% to make the playoffs

Rays likely to win 100 games & AL East.

 Website of the weekend:

Yankees Fans Suck

Jason Stark: Deadline Winners and Losers

"It wouldn't surprise us if this team addresses all its bat and bullpen needs in August, and probably at a much more reasonable cost than it was staring at over the last week. It's a franchise run by some of the brightest people we know. And when the bat market collapsed around them, the Rays' fearless leaders were determined not to overpay for guys like Dunn who they believed didn't really fit. But on the other hand, this is a column about July. And this is a big, big year for this franchise -- the year before Carl Crawford departs and the payroll plummets. So given the circumstances, it's tough to applaud the acquisition of only Chad Qualls as any kind of solution. For one thing, they took on all $1.5 million of his salary. For another, he's about the least dependable "quality" bullpen arm alive. "What can I say?" said an official of one rival team. "I'm just not a fan of that guy. He's Mr. Low Pressure. I just can't imagine walking into that Tampa Bay clubhouse and telling those guys, 'Hey, we got you Chad Qualls and his 8.50 ERA (OK, so it's actually 8.27). Now go get 'em.'"

BYE GEORGE

New York Daily News: An unbelievable story

New York Post: Death'$ perfect timing

New York Times: Choice Quotes

"I would prefer to remember him just as he was the first time I met him. I was managing the Red Sox and sitting in the dugout several hours before a game at Yankee Stadium. He was on the mound in a white shirt pitching batting practice to his son. A father throwing to his son.

His impact on the game is impossible to measure. If you were a Yankee fan there was no better owner because he would do anything at any cost to put the best team on the field.

My deepest sympathies go out to his family."

-Don Zimmer

Last chance to vote Carl Crawford to the 2010 all-star team

Whiskers Demoted!

Rays 2008 All-star and team leader sent to Durham. 

That's what happens when you bat .210 with 1HR in 41 games.

Matt Joyce recalled for added outfield depth with C.C.'s shoulder ailing.

Mayer Foster is gearing up for a fight with no possible winner.

MADDON-ING

Wheels coming off?

Rays waste best start in MLB history - now losers of 17 of last 27.

Don't they understand What's Important Now?
Luckily, Red Sox don't want 2nd place either.
Rays fans, don't give up on your 2nd place team.  Keep voting for them to be all-stars.

Food chain? 2nd Place Rays can't solve sub- .500 Fish, fall to 2nd place.

Rays in tie for Wild Card with washed up Red Sox.

Marlins need to learn "vuvuzela etiquette".  

Meanwhile, Pat Burrell is hitting .341 with 3 doubles and 3 homers with the Giants.

Just what "important announcement" is Stuart Sternberg going to make today?

Barely still in 1st Place Rays too tired to hang on against Braves.

Don't look now but Boston is only 3 games back.

What happened to the fire they played with in April and May?  

Don't they know What's Important Now?

The good news is they still have a 3 game lead in the Wild Card.

Rays Republic needs to step up and vote for Rays All Stars

Let this be a lesson when you have a family argument over what to watch.