Thank You
by Jonah Keri on Oct 12, 2010 11:37 PM EDT
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To the sharpest front office in the business.
To the best manager in the game.
To Zo and CC.
Longo and Los.
Balf, Benoit and MFIKY.
MVB and Briggy (both!).
The Great Pumpkin and Kaps.
Wheels and Sonny and Corms.
Price, Garza, Shields, Davis, Hellboy and The Big Nyquil.
Puffy and Boots.
Joyce and Beej.
Jaso and Shoppach.
Choate, Qualls, even Ekstrom.
Navi and Hawpe.
Deezy and Rocco and everyone else who was a part of this season.
And most of all, thanks to the best community of baseball fans on the planet for more smiles than I can count.
See you in March. I'm buying.
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"I'm buying."
And I’m putting my $5000 cognac on your ticket, Dez Bryant style.
Shawn Camp earned my dog several beatings back in 2007
by wtbudlight on Aug 30, 2010 5:54 PM PDT
Here's to the 2010 Rays, the 2011 Rays, and the Extra 2%
Trust the Process (Report) !
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by Tommy Rancel on Oct 12, 2010 11:42 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Looking forward to the book.
I hope there will be copiously detailed passages of locker room dong. That is what you did with your team access, right?
It wouldn't even be fair, I literally play for keeps
by Andy Hellicksonstine on Oct 11, 2010 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
by PlayOnWords on Oct 12, 2010 11:44 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Cheers! I'll drink to that.
I love Casey Fossum. Now try and take me seriously.
by Steve Slowinski on Oct 12, 2010 11:45 PM EDT reply actions
If Brad Hawpe could get a nod
so can Shoppach
PIZZA?!?
by Transplanted on Oct 12, 2010 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions
It seems you have forgotten to include
the Trop
The only people who really know where [the edge] is are the ones who have gone over it.
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Oct 13, 2010 12:08 AM EDT reply actions
yup
I seriously needed to read something like this; something positive. I think we can all agree this is a terrible way to go out, but I think I’m just most bummed that this Rays season is over. It just feels so all-of-the-sudden.
by BibleDinosaurs on Oct 13, 2010 12:09 AM EDT reply actions
The Sudden end of the season
Leaves me feeling like I did at the end of the Bad News Bears the first time I watched it.
I will always remember that Briggy walk off as the best moment of this year.
"Geno Hayes sucks though
He is one notch above Sabby Piscatelli
by Sveet on Dec 1, 2009 12:34 PM EST"
by PewterPirate55 on Oct 13, 2010 12:11 AM EDT reply actions
Dan Johnson 2 run shot after Jeters fake hbp followed by a granderson homerun
was pretty big in my book.
Best of luck with the book
Really looking forward to finding out even more about this great oganization
the Rangers won the series, and we lost it. Ron Washington out performed Joe espcially in game 5
Congrats !
...
I’ll end with this bit of snark. The folks obsessed with Maddon shooting from his gut are shooting from the other two ends connected to their gut – the order of which is up for discussion.
Honestly ain't I insane I think that's the way I gotta be
Ain't I so so supafly boy ain't nobody hot as me.
I'll feel better when Shelton gets canned in the coming days
That little bit of catharsis is all I have to look forward to until Spring Training
If your goal is to make the offense worse
Then yeah, that’s step 1
PIZZA?!?
by Transplanted on Oct 13, 2010 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Just wanna say thanks boys
You drove me to a bottle of Jameson tonight but it was well worth it. Hell of a year and nobody can say a word about the effort.. To those that are moving on and those that may come back, thank you so much for the memories. I take for granted what you give me every night I watch a baseball game and I often forget that we are the best in the business. Great season fellas, keep the heads high.
And also
Fuck Cliff Lee, Elivs Andrus, Nelson Cruz, Ron Washington, Jerry Kellogg, and Tim Welke. Please include anyone I have left out
by BJ the Bossman on Oct 13, 2010 2:37 AM EDT up reply actions
"and everyone else who was a part of this season" ???
“and everyone else who was a part of this season (except Burrell, who can die in a fire)”
Fixed that for you.
Just hurts so damn bad right now. Ugh.
----2010 STANLEY CUP CHAMPS, CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS!----
Rose-Boozer-Noah
We have a HORSE named Horsa.
Just lock up Seabs now!
Bear Down, Chicago Bears, our D is our victory
This is why i thought winning the ALE was so important, when others didn't
Today we can say that in 2 of the last 3 seasons we bested the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees over the grind of 162 games
The playoffs are a completely different animal, and it was very clear that in that 5 game event, the better team won loud and clear.
The Rays found no answer to Lee and Wilson at all.
Our best hitters were stymied by these two LHP
So today is bittersweet. While i can’t sit here and applaud them for a great season, because the playoffs are a part of the season, i can find pleasure in how they contended over the long 162 game haul
follow me on twitter @sternfan10\
by sternfan1 on Oct 13, 2010 6:59 AM EDT reply actions 8 recs
Smart people get this
The better team is only going to win a five-game series 55% of the time. Even if they’re significantly better.
The fact we won the AL East over a 162 game season ought to be far more important. And for most of baseball’s history, it was. Don’t let the media machine hype you into thinking otherwise.
It will take a few days
Right now I am just miffed that a team that dominated at the Trop for the better part of three seasons went ice cold there. The mental and physical errors, and impotent bats last night were too much to take.
I assume they’ll raise a banner for the ALE next season, and it will bring no joy to me. It’ll just remind me of this failure.
Cliff Lee is good, but that good? I am in denial, just like I still refuse to think the Phillies are really that good…
As for baseball, I will not watch another pitch for the rest of the playoffs. They could cancel it for all I care about the 4 teams left. What a bitter feeling this has left with me. Maybe I’ll feel differently in a week or so…
Tough to see the season end. 7 months with the same team day in and day out.
Good season, not quite good enough, but it was well worth the ride.
As you can always expect come from behind victory is when you least expect it.
Ugh. That was horrible I hate the fact that there seasons over but that was one hell of a run. I’ll never forget this season. I bet the Yankees and phillies are happy the Rays are gone. I’ve had a blast cheerMng for these rays and I just want to say thanks to the whole organization for the great season and to all the players that will be gone next year and to those who will be back. You guys will be missed
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