We don’t need a ‘Nation’…We don’t need an ‘Empire’…All we need is a cold beverage, good music and better baseball. We are RAYSHEADS.
When the Tampa Bay Devil Rays first announced that they were changing their name, many fans, ourselves included, felt betrayed. It was one thing to change the name and the colors. It was something else entirely to change the mascot to sunshine, forcing our beloved fish out of the Trop.
While we have not been as adamant about holding on to the old moniker as some others have been, we still prefer to think of the mascot in terms of the shark’s cousin.
In an effort to reconcile our love of the past and move forward with the team, today we are declaring ourselves RAYSHEADS and ask you to join us.
We have designed a number of T-shirts and opened the Rays Index Store. This is your chance to pledge your allegiance and let everybody know that you are a RAYSHEAD and at the same time support our site (this latter point is important as we try to justify to Mrs. Professor the amount of time we spend working here).
Below are a few examples of the shirts we have to offer. We have included a number of styles for men, women and even one for the new RAYHEADS in your lives.
We also strongly encourage anybody that purchases a T-shirt to send us picture(s) of the shirts in the wild, preferably at The Trop while the Rays are pounding the crap out of the Yankees or the Red Sox. We will post all pictures here on the site and if we get enough we will include a permanent gallery in the sidebar.
Click on any image to be taken directly to the Rays Index store. 
RAYSHEAD by
C. A. Gaines is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
15 Comments
I love the new shirts…
I would be interested in a 21 with “The Duke” or “Sonny” on the back
or a 31 with “Watch out Shelley” on the back
or anything saying “gettin’ a Delmon” or “Elijah Dukes is a mischievous little badger” lol
appreciate the compliment…
The Duke is already in there. I’ll have to work on the others. those aren’t bad ideas.
I really want an 31 in the store, but haven’t decided which way to go.
Ya I will def purchase at some point, probably more than one… I like the Rays of light Boston Bandwagon shirts too, I might get one of those too haha
Jonny Deeper
31
The Virgo
13
El Presidente
23
I’ll think of some more
The Leo
13
Got ahead on my zodiac signs
YES YES YES these shirts are awesome, I can’t wait to get some especially the foston and fankees, haha, genius. Also love the dirtbag shirt!
Yankee Clipper
31
31 Shelley’s Daddy?
YANKEE CLIPPER 31 IS THE BEST!!!! Holy SH– pure freaking Genius
Cork, ya gotta go with that one, and give that man some royalties, id buy that shirt like yesterday…
we will add a couple later in the week.
What did you say hazleton jason? I couldn’t hear you over my awesomeness.
Sean, stick to shirt ideas, it’s what you are good at-
You can pretty much pencil me in for one good T-Shirt idea every season.
If I were a Cubs fan, my buddy thought of a good one that just reads
fuk u do me
which i thought was clever, perverted enough, and funny…
You gotta rock some lightweight tees instead of all heavyweights.