With the baseball season now officially over, my 4-year contract with RaysIndex.com has now expired. While we continue to discuss what role I will have around here moving forward, I have stepped away from baseball for the moment and made my debut today over at Joe Bucs Fan. Some would call this a negotiation ploy. I’ll let you decide.
From The Professor’s Desk … [Joe Bucs Fan]
Two years ago on Rays Index we were amazed by the championship-like celebration planned for the unveiling of their new uniforms.
The Devil Rays Know How To Be Overdramatic [Rays Index]
From the “Can’t make this up” pile, Marc Topkin drops this little nugget…
…the Rays decided to keep Uchibori, Iwamura’s interpreter the past two years, and gave him a job as a scout in his native Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Just another move proving that the Rays are trendsetters and super-sleuths at uncovering market inefficiencies. Because obviously interpreters make excellent talent evaluators. There go the Rays, reinventing the game of baseball, one interpreter at a time.
If only the Yankees had thought of that.
[Ed. Note: the gentleman in the above photo with Aki is not his most recent interpreter. That is Aki's first interpreter with the Rays.]
DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA…
