Minutes before the Rays quieted the home crowd and got rolled 4-1 in tonight’s opener, Stu Sternberg was on WDAE-AM 620 squawking about how a mere $10 million payroll increase over the Rays’ current $40+ million would have made the club significantly better. Thanks, Stu. Hope you have more fun spending that $10 million [...]
FIRST INNING (A look back)… Forty-five ESPN.com “experts” made their predictions for the 2011 season. None picked the Rays to win the division. And only four picked the Rays for the Wild Card…Can this team compete for a playoff spot? All those experts can see is that the Rays lost [...]
Today is opening day for the 14th time in franchise history. During that time, 67 different players have started on opening day for the (Devil) Rays. Here is a word cloud (created usingWordle.net) showing each of the 67 players. The size of their names is relative to how many times [...]
So there passed another Spring Training with Joe bored to tears by the fourth inning of these games. Thank the Lord the real Rays season graces us tonight. Yeah, it was nice to study Manny’s dedicated-looking pregame rituals, sit behind the dugout under real sun for a reasonable price and, of [...]
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Well, we knew the payroll was going to go down. And now that the opening day roster is set, we know just how far the payroll has fallen. Last year, the Rays opened the season with a $71.9 million payroll. This year, with several high-priced defections, the opening day payroll [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. click above image for boxscore THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… Opening day is now sold out. That is the sixth consecutive opening day sellout. And unlike Replica [...]
