BOMBING AWAY

Dismal road trip goes from bad to A-wful

Trade rumors get to Shields in the 4th, ERA now over 3

Joyce heroics too little, too late, again

SEASON ON THE BRINK

Shaun Weideman graphic

Rays continue to lose ground to Sox, Yankees.

Rumor mill swirls

Will Rays be parting with Shields, Upton, Farnsworth, Damon?

The Cubs need a mascot, could Raymond be traded for prospects?

Rays walk right into a loss. 

It's lights out at the Trop - is it lights out on the Rays season too?

Would you still like to be in an outdoor stadium when lightning strikes?

Hey Rick Sutcliffe, we don't like you either.

MARATHON MEN

Rays waste 16-inning opportunity to gain ground

Now 7 games back and dropping

Good news is only 5.5 games back in the Wild Card

Great job by the guys in the ESPN Booth - knowing who would manage the Rays in the event that the manager and bench coach get tossed, knowing who the emergency catcher is, and knowing what city the Rays play in.  

The Trop was full of Rays fans but you wouldn't know it by the crowd shots on TV.

1st Place Sox come to town.  Are you going to see the Sox or the Rays?

Home team has a chance to gain some ground in the AL East race.

Rays fans need to step up, and fill the Trop this weekend!

REMEMBER WHEN?

We miss you Carl.  But you're no Sam Fuld.

Rays All-Stars through the years

1998 Rolando Arrojo

1999 Roberto Hernandez, Jose Canseco

2000 Fred McGriff

2001 Greg Vaughn (DNP)

2002 Randy Winn

2003 Lance Carter

2004 Carl Crawford

2005 Danys Baez

2006 Scott Kazmir

2007 Carl Crawford

2008 Scott Kazmir, Dioner Navarro, Evan Longoria

2009 Joe Maddon, Carlos Pena (DNP), Jason Bartlett, Evan Longoria* (Selected as a starter, DNP), Ben Zobrist, Carl Crawford**

2010 Evan Longoria*, Carl Crawford*, David Price*, Rafael Soriano

2011 David Price (DNP), James Shields (DNP), Matt Joyce

*Starter, **MVP

Big E James

Shields pitches a gem, but throws the game away in the 7th.

Hey S-Rod, make sure you look the ball into your glove.

Congrats to the St Pete Times for putting the Derek Jeter above the fold on the Sunday Sports section.  Way to support the local team.  

Rays Greatest Point Ever?  You decide.

Price out of All-Star Game with turf toe.

No Containment

Rays can't stop Yankees, Jeter.

Sorry Wade Boggs.  Price lets Jetes become the 2nd player to get his 3000th hit on a home run.

While you were reading this Jeter just got 5 more hits off the Rays.

James can't complete, Rays offense can't compete.

Bob Buckhorn throws out the first pitch, and then uses it as an opportunity to discuss stadium plans with Stu Sternberg. 

Rays continue June Swoon, with no trade deadline savior on the horizon.

Cincinnati fans can't help fill the Trop.

COMPLETE GAME 

(COMPLETELY OVERWORKED?)

JAMES

Rays beat up on the Florida Miami mAAArlins.  Not many of you were there to see it.

Shields now leads the majors with 5 complete games.

Does Joe really need to send him out in the 9th with a 1-run lead?

Will Big Game James have gas left for big games in September?

All Sam Fuld does is make ridiculous diving catches in left field.

E5-van Longoria?  A positively un-Longo like Sunday.

To the fan at the Trop on Saturday wearing the Yankees Cap and the Iverson Jersey: not cool, Dude. Not cool.

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Revenge is cold

Price drills Youk for stepping on Casey's foot.  Problem is it loads the bases and leads to a run.

Greek God of Walks Whining?

Joe Maddon finds something positive in dropping 2 of 3 at home to the Red Sox.

James Shields is the ace of this staff again.

5 1/2 games back and falling.

HELL-ACIOUS

Future ace pitches well enough to win, but Rays leave their bats at home.

Mitt Romney knows where to meet thousands of Massachusetts voters - at the Trop!

Stay classy, Vancouver

Make sure you vote for Rays All-Stars

BOSTON SUCKS!

 

Hottest team in baseball comes to town tonight.

Will the Trop be filled with red shirts or blue?  You decide.

Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks for saving us all from a year of Miami fans and their smug, bandwagon attitudes.  "We're from Miami, and we don't bother to watch anything but front-runners and storebought champions."

They Are Who We Thought They Were ?

Rays now 4 games back and falling

There's no crying in baseball!

Jorge Posada shows his true side
It is sad to watch a player keep playing past the age when his team and his fans still want him
But if you're an aging catcher that doesn't catch and isn't hitting...

LETDOWN at the TROP

O's bring their A-Game

Outscore Rays by 15-6, take 2 of 3
Still somehow able to gain ground over the Yankees

DJ Kitty is pissed off that only 28,451 of you showed up to see Darius Rucker.  Maybe more will turn out to see the Wiggles.