Archive for May 21st, 2008

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  [LIVE BLOG-A-BALOO] Rays Index Live Blog-A-Baloo Of The Week: Gm 47 @ Oakland

  May 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm 0 comments
   
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  [RI CONFIDENCE GRAPH] The Rays Index Confidence Graph: Week 8

  May 21, 2008 at 1:16 pm 0 comments

  The Rays Confidence Graph will appear every Wednesday and is a look at how much confidence Rays fans have in the Tampa Bay Rays. The graph is designed to give us a look at how our emotional bias as Rays fans fluctuates through time. The “confidence” in the team is [...]

   
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  [ALL EMPIRES FALL] Carl Crawford Is Not Intimidated By Derek Jeter’s Machismo

  May 21, 2008 at 10:44 am 2 comments

  This week’s cover of the Sports Illustrated (via The Heater*) features a comic book-style rendering of a super hero-like Carl Crawford holding a frail and frightened Derek Jeter above his head with one arm while Bizarro Superman looks on in anguish. The cover is in reference to an SI story [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] Rays Stretch Lead In Wild Card To 2 Games

  May 21, 2008 at 9:41 am 7 comments

  THE GOOD: Scott Kazmir was able to keep his pitch count in check and worked 7 strong innings. In fact, outside of a 20 pitch 7th inning, Kid K was only at 77 pitches after 6 innings. For comparison, Kazmir was 4th in all baseball last season with 3,609 pitches [...]

   
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  [DOWN ON THE FARM] Niamann To Make Second Start Since Demotion

  May 21, 2008 at 7:50 am 2 comments

  Durham @ Charlotte ppd (rain). Montgomery (off day) Tampa 1, Vero Beach 0. Ryan Morse worked 5 scoreless innings, allowing only 2 hits, but picked up a no-decision as the D-Rays could not get on the board…Vero Beach could only manage 3 hits and did not get a runner past [...]