For a review of the new book on the Rays, The Extra 2%, we turn to our correspondent Jordi Scrubbings… There is no doubt some of the best sports books ever have been about baseball. Every baseball fan has their favorites. Personally, I am fan of The Curious Case of [...]
Our correspondent and Afrologist, Jordi Scrubbings, is back with another sensible take on things that drive most of us nuts… During my time in the military, I could always tell how good a unit was by watching the interaction between the commanding officer and the non-commissioned officers (sergeants and the [...]
Our correspondent and Afrologist, Jordi Scrubbings, is back with another sensible take on things that drive most of us nuts… “Absolutely!! Have faith in us!! RT @GtotheLee: @DAVIDprice14 there goes Soriano & Balfour is there anybody left to field a team?”- David Price on Twitter, Jan 14th, 2011 We live [...]
Jordi Scrubbings, our Senior Social Correspondent attended BJ Upton’s recent charity bowling event. Yesterday, BJ Upton held the first annual “Bowling with BJ” charity event at Splitsville in Tampa. I, your humble afro-clad correspondent, decided to attend. Not only was I very impressed, but as far as I could tell, the [...]
Howdy, y’all. My most humble apologies for not posting here much since the season ended. I promise I’ll rectify that soon. But in the meantime, I would like to let you know what I’ve been up to since we last met. First and most important, I am now a published [...]
Ever since B.J. Upton meekly popped up for the final out of the final game of the Rays’ 2010 season, nearly every scribe, blogger, writer, and analyst following the team has penned his or her ode to the past seven months of Bay Area baseball. Some have written of disappointment, [...]
On August 3rd, 1980 more than 16,000 people packed Tampa Stadium for the “Last Tango in Tampa”, a Championship Wrestling of Florida event featuring the best wrestlers of the day. Through a sweltering heat – the air was “hot and heavy” according to announcer Gordon Solie – fans watched legends [...]
There is a well-worn cliché that baseball is a game of failure. It is a game where even the greatest hitters of all-time fail in more than 60% of their attempts. It is a game where most teams lose 33% of their games and there are years when 50% is [...]
Back in the day, in the prehistoric pre-Devil Raysian era of 1991, aspiring hip-hop producer Robert Diggs (aka the RZA) brought together nine rappers under the banner of the Wu-Tang Clan and revolutionized the hip-hop genre. In his book “The Wu-Tang Manual”, Diggs discussed his method of utilizing each individual [...]
Last Tuesday, on the same night he felt the collective sympathy of all male-kind, Carl Crawford celebrated the eighth anniversary of his major league debut. Following his inconspicuous 1-for-4 debut on a 78-degree summer night in Toronto in 2002, Carl Crawford became an oddity in the dome of little talent. [...]
