Archive for May 9th, 2006

50 Games For Delmon Young

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The word finally came down from the president of the International League. Delmon Young, who threw a bat at an umpire two weeks ago, will be suspended for 50 games. He was given 10 days time served for the games he has already missed, and will be eligible to return to the Durham Bulls for the June 19 home game against Charlotte. Young also has to perform 50 hours of comunity service. The president of the IL stated that he would have only suspended Young for the entire season if he could determine that Young intended to hit the umpire. We are not going to jump on the trade Delmon Young bandwagon. The fact is, he is one of ours. He is a Devil Ray, and as long as he is, we will support him. We hated Me-Shawn before he was a buc…we loved him as a buc…and now we hate him more than ever. We will let others criticize and demonize. Do we condone what he did? Absolutely not. We were embarrased and sick to our stomach that the future of the organization could do such a thing. We believe the suspension was about right and we hope he learns from this, but the fact remains he is a D-Ray and we will support him as long as he is part of this organization.

Prospect Young suspended for 50 games [mlb.com]
Delmon Young Video [Rays Index]

50 Games For Delmon Young

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The word finally came down from the president of the International League. Delmon Young, who threw a bat at an umpire two weeks ago, will be suspended for 50 games. He was given 10 days time served for the games he has already missed, and will be eligible to return to the Durham Bulls for the June 19 home game against Charlotte. Young also has to perform 50 hours of comunity service. The president of the IL stated that he would have only suspended Young for the entire season if he could determine that Young intended to hit the umpire. We are not going to jump on the trade Delmon Young bandwagon. The fact is, he is one of ours. He is a Devil Ray, and as long as he is, we will support him. We hated Me-Shawn before he was a buc…we loved him as a buc…and now we hate him more than ever. We will let others criticize and demonize. Do we condone what he did? Absolutely not. We were embarrased and sick to our stomach that the future of the organization could do such a thing. We believe the suspension was about right and we hope he learns from this, but the fact remains he is a D-Ray and we will support him as long as he is part of this organization.

Prospect Young suspended for 50 games [mlb.com]
Delmon Young Video [Rays Index]

Devil Ray Blogtopia

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  • Who is Ty Wiggington? One blogger wonders who that is wearing Ty Wiggington’s uniform [Rays Talk]
  • And another blogger seems to think the Ray’s pitchers walk too many batters…Um, Ya Think? They even wrote a song about it. We thought we had too much free time. [Boys of Summer]
  • Ray’s VP of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman likes Coldplay. Personally, we had him pegged more as a Yanni guy [My Coldplay.com]
  • Attending Devil Ray’s games is masochistic. [Tangent Universe]
  • The Devil Rays are the best pro sports deal in town. Of course the Lightning and the Bucs aren’t playing right now. [Sticks of Fire]
  • One way to punish Delmon Young…promote him to the majors [Mets guy in Michigan]
  • Apparently the removal of Vince Naimoli is the baseball equivalent of the liberation of East Germany. [Boston Herald Blog]
  • One writer thinks the Devil Rays will lose between 122-132 games this season. Of course only one team in the HISTORY of baseball has lost more than 120 in a season. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134. You can look it up. Vince Naimoli’s grandfather owned that team (we made that up) [Siberian Baseball]

Devil Ray Blogtopia

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  • Who is Ty Wiggington? One blogger wonders who that is wearing Ty Wiggington’s uniform [Rays Talk]
  • And another blogger seems to think the Ray’s pitchers walk too many batters…Um, Ya Think? They even wrote a song about it. We thought we had too much free time. [Boys of Summer]
  • Ray’s VP of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman likes Coldplay. Personally, we had him pegged more as a Yanni guy [My Coldplay.com]
  • Attending Devil Ray’s games is masochistic. [Tangent Universe]
  • The Devil Rays are the best pro sports deal in town. Of course the Lightning and the Bucs aren’t playing right now. [Sticks of Fire]
  • One way to punish Delmon Young…promote him to the majors [Mets guy in Michigan]
  • Apparently the removal of Vince Naimoli is the baseball equivalent of the liberation of East Germany. [Boston Herald Blog]
  • One writer thinks the Devil Rays will lose between 122-132 games this season. Of course only one team in the HISTORY of baseball has lost more than 120 in a season. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders went 20-134. You can look it up. Vince Naimoli’s grandfather owned that team (we made that up) [Siberian Baseball]

We’re In A Glass Case Of Emotion!

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Seattle 6, D-Rays 3. Jonny Gomes is good (12th home run)…The Bullpen is bad (another blown lead). It has now been almost a month since the Rays won back-to-back games. We are too frustrated to talk about it. Wait…yep, the Bullpen just blew another lead back at the team hotel.

The Hangover: Yesterday In The AL East

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Toronto 5, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim near Disney Land 1. Toronto pulled within 2 games of division leaders Boston and New York. Alex Rios and Benji Molina hit home runs in the 5-run 5th. Rios is now hitting .384, Canadian, which is about .270 American.

Boston, New York and Baltimore had the night off so they could polish the gold cleats on their spikes.

A Look At The Future: Yesterday On The Farm

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Durham 8, Louisville 1. SP Jason Hammel had a strong outing to improve to 3-2. He went 6 innings, giving up 8 hits, 2 walks and 1 run. At the plate CF Darnell McDonald hit his 5th home run and had 2 RBI. B. J. Upton went 1-4 with an RBI and a walk. He also stole his league leading 15th base.

Montgomery 3, Huntsville 1. SP Tony Paguero threw 6 strong innings to improve to 4-2. He gave up 4 hits, no walks and 1 run. His ERA is now 1.83.

SW Michigan 6, Clinton 1. C Matt Spring went 2-3 with 1 RBI and a walk. No truth to the rumor that all Devil Ray minor league catchers have to have tiny bleach blonde goatees like Toby Hall. SP Michael Wlodarczyk (3-1), was the third D-Ray minor league pitcher to have a strong outing last night. He went 6.2 innings allowing 3 hits and 3 walks, while lowering his ERA to 1.07.

We’re In A Glass Case Of Emotion!

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Seattle 6, D-Rays 3. Jonny Gomes is good (12th home run)…The Bullpen is bad (another blown lead). It has now been almost a month since the Rays won back-to-back games. We are too frustrated to talk about it. Wait…yep, the Bullpen just blew another lead back at the team hotel.

The Hangover: Yesterday In The AL East

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Toronto 5, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim near Disney Land 1. Toronto pulled within 2 games of division leaders Boston and New York. Alex Rios and Benji Molina hit home runs in the 5-run 5th. Rios is now hitting .384, Canadian, which is about .270 American.

Boston, New York and Baltimore had the night off so they could polish the gold cleats on their spikes.

A Look At The Future: Yesterday On The Farm

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Durham 8, Louisville 1. SP Jason Hammel had a strong outing to improve to 3-2. He went 6 innings, giving up 8 hits, 2 walks and 1 run. At the plate CF Darnell McDonald hit his 5th home run and had 2 RBI. B. J. Upton went 1-4 with an RBI and a walk. He also stole his league leading 15th base.

Montgomery 3, Huntsville 1. SP Tony Paguero threw 6 strong innings to improve to 4-2. He gave up 4 hits, no walks and 1 run. His ERA is now 1.83.

SW Michigan 6, Clinton 1. C Matt Spring went 2-3 with 1 RBI and a walk. No truth to the rumor that all Devil Ray minor league catchers have to have tiny bleach blonde goatees like Toby Hall. SP Michael Wlodarczyk (3-1), was the third D-Ray minor league pitcher to have a strong outing last night. He went 6.2 innings allowing 3 hits and 3 walks, while lowering his ERA to 1.07.