Our Team Has Lost Its Purpose
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:14 PM EST
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Note to the Rays: this winning pennant crap that you pulled last year does not make up for this lack of justice. If you really want fans to come to the ballpark, make the mascots better! This is just disgraceful. DISGRACEFUL I SAY. /mascot fanatic
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On a related note, I really need a non-mascot roster move to happen.
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Too bad their mascot is not a giant biscuit walking around
but a “Biscuit Eater” which looks like an anteater costume where they decided to go “Oh hell! A biscuit costume is too much lets just turn an anteater into a biscuit eater.”
Top Josh Paul Pornos- Big Navi Stroking, 2pitchers1cup, BJ to the Balls, Riggans Your Thingans
09: This one is for all the rings.
Oh no....
what is his "fieance" going to do now. Personally, I couldn’t care less about the game. I go for the bottle races.
Laugh all you want
But for some people, including my wife (who went to more games than most of you guys last year), the entertainment factor at the ballpark is a big draw.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:28 PM EST up reply actions
Let's be glad not everyone likes baseball games for the same reason your wife does.
Otherwise we’d be screwed.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:31 PM EST up reply actions
Be as smug as you want
But the fact is, many women and children will be turned off by this decision. It’s really easy for someone like yourself who doesn’t actually attend games (i.e. you have the entire web at your disposal during commercial breaks) to dismiss the non-baseball entertainment value at the park.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:39 PM EST up reply actions
I'll inject Jonny Gomes' Sweat into their Bloodstream
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
My cousin was killed by a mascot you insensitive bastard.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
People realize that the Rays didn't fire Raymond....
just the girl in the costume. There will be a different person in the costume next year. Nobody will remember this by opening day.
by Tommy Rancel on Nov 18, 2008 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
Also serious question: you can tell the difference in mascots?
They aren’t replacing Raymond, they’re replacing the person inside the outfit. There’s almost no way of knowing.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Again, I cite your lack of attendance at games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5SDzk0LqjI
It wasn’t just the girls job to walk around in a suit. She also scripted most of the things her character did, as well as many other marketing projects.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
And again,
They can get somebody to do the same thing, but maybe even better.
by Tommy Rancel on Nov 18, 2008 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
You can cite my lack of attendance all day long.
I went to a handful of games this year. I’m a broke college student almost two hours away who can’t find a job and has to put his money towards things other than baseball games. The mascot is like the least of my concerns when I do go.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
Exactly
And the Rays need to market themselves to people other than broke college students who can’t afford to go to games.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
The Rays need to market themselves to people who enjoy good baseball.
If your wife stops going because of this, then holy shit she’s not a real fan anyways.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
What's a 'real fan'?
And are they going to be the lifeblood of this organization? It wasn’t the ‘real fans’ who showed up in October and bought all those shirts. From my perspective, it isn’t the ‘real fans’ that are just now getting season packages. According to your standards, there are about 7 women in Pinellas county who would qualify as ‘real fans’.
The team needs fans period.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
A real fan of baseball.
Not every kid needs entertainment outside of the game. Not every woman needs a glorified furry. Why is this hard to comprehend
The Rays now win baseball games. If people need a freaking mascot to come to games, then they may as well move this team tomorrow. This area doesn’t deserve the team if that’s the case. .
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
Also
My wife may not be a ‘real fan’, but her willingness to go to baseball games will most certainly effect my ability and desire to attend.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
81 times a year?
I take it you don’t have a girlfriend.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:00 PM EST up reply actions
He doesn't stop at one.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
I don't go 81 times a year.
Comparing my situation to yours is dumb. You’re obviously in an advanced part of your life.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
And thinking that the only way this team can be healthy is by attracting 36,000 people like yourself
Is also dumb
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Um, I didn't say we needed 36,000 of me.
I know there aren’t, I encounter morons all the time. Point is, not everyone goes for mascots, and if they do, they’ll get over it.
by R.J. Anderson on Nov 18, 2008 2:05 PM EST up reply actions
I hope so
If not, there is always Stubhub for my Saturday/Sunday games.
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:15 PM EST up reply actions
both sides of this are correct
mascots are dumb, but people for some godly reason like having them around like kids and women.
My guess is that GomesSweetGomes puts more money in the pocketbooks of the Rays FO because of his wife (and kids?)
agree to disagree and move on…
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Nov 18, 2008 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
The only people who knew her name before this article were either her family members or mentally ill people who stalk mascots.
She will be replaced and no one will know the difference. There will be no normal people who will refuse to go to the game because the lady inside the freak suit got replaced.
Can we stop bickering
over a mascot? In 2 months no one is going to even remember she got fired. Life will go on. Leave it at that.
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
Was she really that much better than other mascots?
I don’t think a 5 year-old kid will have any clue. What if she was stealing or doing something else as bad?
To dump on the FO for firing the mascot may be the single lamest thing I’ve ever heard.
If
You really like a guy that works at your local 711 and one day Hakim isn’t there to make you your coffee anymore you’re not going to be up in arms. Calm down.
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
I'm a true fan
There’s one across the street.
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
bottle races are down right redic
such a rip from the Crew’s sausage races.
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Nov 18, 2008 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
could be wrong here, and I guess I really dont care either way
but I think the Sausages were the first of their kind??
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Nov 18, 2008 1:53 PM EST up reply actions
Umm
If she is the one wearing the costume that hides her face, probably not.
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Yes
They do. They go to clubs and dance with their friends. Except they dance alone.
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
That's the job of the Orioles Mascot
by Erik Hahmann on Nov 18, 2008 2:04 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
please inform us of the story behind this.
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Nov 18, 2008 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
She is not.
Top Josh Paul Pornos- Big Navi Stroking, 2pitchers1cup, BJ to the Balls, Riggans Your Thingans
09: This one is for all the rings.
Annoyed
I thought she was a very good Raymond, and this seems like an odd time to can her.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
I guess that's why the BBWWAA Sucks so much, ROFL XD.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
As much as the individual writers are morons
They seem to have, as a group, done a good job with the (non gold glove) award winners
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:09 PM EST up reply actions
I said the winners
And yes, individual writers are dumb
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed.
Got fired yesterday, can definitely sympathize.
Finding a job is no easy task. Blech.
I know that's a pisser, baby.
Sorry, not trying to make light of your situation.
Seriously, best of luck finding a job. Times are tough.
I didn't take it as such.
Thanks. :-)
Might have to take some time off due to school + health stuff though.
I know that's a pisser, baby.
Oh god
My got my fieance to become a baseball fan last year and she loves Raymonds personality but now it will change.
LMFAO. I can haz speeeling skilzz.
I really don’t know what to think of this. Raymond was a great mascot; can she be replaced by someone of equal/greater quality? Yes, she’s a draw of fans, especially the kid ones.
I know that's a pisser, baby.
What of the rumors that the Rays are planning on using a Sun-based mascot?
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 2:14 PM EST reply actions
Maybe this will give them an excuse to wash that suit.
Top Josh Paul Pornos- Big Navi Stroking, 2pitchers1cup, BJ to the Balls, Riggans Your Thingans
09: This one is for all the rings.
Agreed
It was disgusting at the end of the year
by GomesSweetGomes on Nov 18, 2008 5:23 PM EST up reply actions
Rick Vaughn, the team’s spokesman, declined to comment.
“But be assured Raymond will live on,” he wrote in an e-mail.
FORGET THE CURVE BALL, RICKY, GIVE HIM THE HEATER
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Nov 19, 2008 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
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