This weekend John Romano of the Tampa Bay Times raised some eyebrows with a column titled “Has a baseball team ever won so much and drawn so few as the Tampa Bay Rays?” In the piece Romano refers to the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles as two franchises that had [...]
“That’s an interesting suggestion.” That was St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster’s response when told that a Hillsborough County Commissioner proposed trading a big chunk of Tampa’s cruise industry for the Tampa Bay Rays. It was also the most positive thing we have ever heard Mayor Foster say about the Rays [...]
As will happen every few months, Bud Selig will hold court with the media, and inevitably, the stadium situations in Oakland and Tampa Bay are brought up. And for the most part, the comments are always the same. Here are Selig’s most recent comments (via The Washington Post)… “I’m always [...]
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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. RAYS 3, Yankees 0 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Jeremy Hellickson. Joe Maddon tried hard to get Hellboy a shutout on his 25th birthday, but in the end, [...]
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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. RAYS (boxscore) No GBT Today THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… We’ve got a LOT of stuff planned for today, including a pre-game Tailgate. So be sure to [...]
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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. RAYS 2, Rays Futures 1 (boxscore) No GBT today THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… Kyle Farnsworth has an elbow strain, and “he is confident he will be [...]
The Hillsborough County Commission Chairman has had enough of the painfully slow (and possibly non-existent) pace the Tampa Bay Rays and the City of St. Pete are taking in their efforts to find the team a new home. And now Ken Hagan is hoping he can be the guy that [...]
Stuart Sternberg held court with the media in Port Charlotte yesterday. His comments are transcribed below and we have highlighted a few of the more telling passages. Here’s the video… On the upcoming season: “We’re optimistic, we’re happy, we’re excited. It’s been an eventful, yet uneventful, off-season. We did some [...]
Stuart Sternberg is in Port Charlotte today and spoke briefly with the media. And when he was asked about the stadium situation, he kinda, sorta reassured us that he is committed to making things work in the Bay Area (via Marc Topkin of TampaBay.com), saying he is “pretty certain” the team [...]
The column is entitled “Power Rankings: No. 4 Rays.” So naturally, we would expect this piece to be about how the Rays will perform in the AL East this season. Good lord do we feel like friggin’ idiots. Not. Even. Close. The entire column is about whether or not the [...]
