GQ ranked the five best and five worst broadcast teams in baseball and the Rays’ own Dewayne Staats and Kevin Kennedy come in at #3…in “The Bottom Five.” Staats isn’t the worst play-by-play man in the country, but one gets the sense that he gets his rocks off on the [...]
Congressman Gus Bilirakis took a moment recently to recognize Dewayne Staats’ 5,000th career game…
Here is footage of Stuart Sternberg’s statement from yesterday… THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… We will have much more on Sternberg’s comments later this morning. The Tampa Tribune has responses from local officials to Stuart Sternberg’s stadium demands…Tampa officials sound both optimistic and very cautious. [Tampa Tribune] Carl Crawford was named [...]
Hey Brian, don’t think we don’t see you eyeballin’ Staats ‘fro like Charles Barkley eyes somebody eating a donut. Consider this an early birthday present.
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Click on above images to be taken to full standings, boxscores or schedule… THE GOOD: David Price. Right from the start, Price set out to establish his fastball and succeeded. An easy 10 pitch first inning was all fastballs, and 41 of his first 43 pitches were fastballs. He did [...]
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THE GOOD: Jason Bartlett’s first home run with the Rays. We honestly wondered if he would ever hit an over-the-fence home run with the Rays. We have seen players with “warning track power” and Jason doesn’t even have that. And we wonder if Bartlett actually enjoyed getting plunked his next [...]
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C’mon, you guys knew this was coming eventually…There is a general sense amongst some of our readers that all we do is bash the Rays media coverage. The truth is we actually admire most of the working media and respect most of their work. We just get a sense that [...]
Team USA 3, Peo Saguaros 0.Evan Longoria was 0-3 and is now hitting .308 in the Arizona Fall League. Justin Ruggiano did not play. On Wednesday, Longoria went 2-4 with 2 doubles and 2 runs scored in Team USA’s 5-3 win over Surprise. Ruggiano went 1-4 with a triple and [...]
Team USA 3, Peo Saguaros 0.Evan Longoria was 0-3 and is now hitting .308 in the Arizona Fall League. Justin Ruggiano did not play. On Wednesday, Longoria went 2-4 with 2 doubles and 2 runs scored in Team USA’s 5-3 win over Surprise. Ruggiano went 1-4 with a triple and [...]
