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Rays are for real!

Right now...this very moment...I want everyone, including the so-called "baseball analysts" to cut out the talk about the Red Sox having more experience. Baseball playoffs are much more than experience. Guts, fearless, determined, audacity, confidence, spunk, grit, heart, come to mind. Add some well-placed luck and Joe Maddon, the 2008 Major League Manager of the Year and you have the ingredients for some exciting baseball.

Now remember, the less experienced Rays held off a Red Sox charge at the end of the regular season. They beat Boston head-to-head 10 of 18 games.

Get ready for some different names in the headlines…Crawford, Longoria, Iwamura, Upton, Garza, Kazmir, Shields, Sonnanstine, Howell.

Big-payroll franchises eat your hearts out. Tampa Bay is the real deal.

Go, Rays!

(And a note for Rays’owners: Leave the team at Tropicana Field. The boys know the rafters, girders, shadows and glare pretty well).

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Juuust a bit.

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Oct 7, 2008 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Mariners eat Cold Cereal, Rays eat Oatmeal.

Those who eat the most hearty breakfast hath the most heart.

Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.

by P Brady on Oct 7, 2008 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Certainties in Life: Death, Taxes, and Gabe Gross coming through in the ninth

by JMB on Oct 7, 2008 11:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

You said spunk

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

by Sandy Kazmir on Oct 8, 2008 9:13 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Palin

Booyah!

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Oct 8, 2008 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

POT ROAST!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

by Sandy Kazmir on Oct 8, 2008 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

What's annoying me

Is that ESPN, over and over, keeps mentioning that there are only two Rays with World Series rings, mentioning Floyd and Hinske in bit roles. They’ve forgotten about poor little Troy Percival.

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Oct 8, 2008 9:34 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Is there any way we can

remove the roof from the Trop and put on a Skydome-like roof?

I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

by Orlando Rays on Oct 8, 2008 12:37 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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