2009 Free Agents List

I am concerned, Every piece I read about the new stadium has like 10 comments after the end of it slamming the Rays and the new stadium. People whine about not being able to pay the mortgage, and how St. Pete has no money and on and on. I get worried, because these negative people that take an extra 5 minutes to complain on a newspaper website are the same people who will vote and shoot this thing down. I have noticed most younger sports lovers seem less apt to going to the voting booth to get this thing done.
If this doesn't go through, we can kiss our Rays goodbye. We have ALL dreamed of a waterfront stadium, MLB will never let us host an ALL STAR game in the current facility. Everyone that is worried about the city with no money can almost be guaranteed that MLB will give us the ALL Star game within 2 or 3 years of that park opening. I am an out-of-towner that is already making vacation plans for the grand opening of the new park. I STRONGLY URGE all of you that are citizens and CAN vote for this next year, that they get out there and do it, or I am getting the idea that this will fail...
I also strongly urge those that cannnot pay the mortgage on the house and car payments to NOT GET IN OVER YOUR HEAD AND BUY A HOUSE AND CAR YOU CAN TRULY AFFORD AND THEN NOT HAVE THE AUDACITY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. Most peoples dire fanancial situation is a "you" problem and should not be used in any other context of building new facilities. I'll get off my soapbox...now

I agree with R.J.. If the stadium fails, I think the DRO will have a new proposal on the table within 3-5 years. I think after what MLB went through trying to get a city to build a team for the Expos/Nationals the DRO will not be quite so aggressive about threatening to move to new cities.

I am very happy Ramo is up and already showing us what he has been doing on a very, very shitty AHL team for the last few years.. when a goalie has a 3.33 GGA and 920 save % you know that goalie is playing on a bad team which Ramo was.

Poor kid was left out to dry in the thrid and wasnt tested much till then but did a solid job of keeping the soft goals out and never seemed shakey and boy was he confident and made some great decisions without second guessing himself on things like playing the puck, charging the puck and sliding out to cut the angel and make some big saves.. The current two we had never played like that and would seem to panic in the net and play too safe.

We have to do something about the 3rd period because we can't expect the kid to play that out of his mind everynight. The team was out shot 4 to 14 and out chanced the whole period. I know injuries are hurting us but they have to find a way to inject some energy into that last period because all season we have been flat. Maybe its a mental thing with the young D thinking too much about not letting any goals in and throwing their game off?

I hope they can solve the problem before its too late.