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Jul 03

[RAYSHEAD ARMY] Sweep Caroline…Good Times Never Felt So Good

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Surviving Grady is not very happy about the use of “Sweet Caroline” after the final out was recorded last night, as that is the same song used during the 8th inning at Fenway Park.

But instead of just taking the high road, letting your performance on the field speak for itself and figuring a sweep of the defending World Champs would be message enough to send to the rest of the world at large, you had to go and do it.

You played “Sweet Caroline” after the final out of last night’s game.

That’s a play right out of Smug Upstart Wannabes 101–the mark of a team that’s so confused by its own success, it feels it has to take these opportunities to step on the 600 pound gorilla’s nuts when he’s down, because it’s not sure it’ll ever have another chance to do so. It was sophomoric–instantly recalling the “1918″ chant that was popular ’round Tampa Bay before our 2004 heroics–and frighteningly lame. But it doesn’t surprise me.

We feel we should apologize to Surviving Grady and the rest of Red Sox Nation. You see, they clearly misheard the music being played. The song was in fact not “Sweet Caroline” by the ever-lame Neil Diamond.

No. The song that was played after the final out in which the Rays swept the Red Sox and stretch the lead in the AL East to 3.5 games, was actually “Sweep Caroline”.

SWEEP CAROLINE


Where it began, we can begin to know when (7th inning on July 2)
But then I know it’s growing strong (RAYSHEADS UNITE!)
Oh, wasn’t the spring, whooo (beat up on the Spankees)
And spring became the summer (beating up on the Pink Hat Nation)
Who’d believe you’d just run along

WINS, lots of wins..reaching out
Touching us, sweeping you
Oh, SWEEP CAROLINE
Good times never felt so good
We’ve been inclined to believe it never would

Ohhh, SWEEP CAROLINE, good times never felt so good…so good, so good, so good.

“Open Letter to the Tampa Bay Rays” or “The Thing About Karma” [Surviving Grady]

Jun 04

[PINK HAT NATION] Red Sox Fans Talking Smack? It Couldn’t Be

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Entering this series with the Red Sox we wondered how important this 3-game set was to Red Sox fans and whether they still considered the Yankees more of a threat. It is easy to think that 2 championships in the last 4 years is still not enough to erase 85 years of beat-downs at the hands of the men in pinstripes. That sort of humilation can lead to some serious PTSD and excessive drinking habits.

Still, entering this series the Red Sox were looking up at the Rays and with a 1.5 game lead, the Red Sox would have to sweep the series to grab first place.

Well, at least one Sox fan is taking this series seriously. In fact Sully Baseball (yelling “Sully” in Fenway Park is like yelling “Mom” in a Toys-R-Us) thinks the Red Sox and the Rays are on the verge of developing a mini-rivalry…a “subrivalry”, if you will.

I for one am one pumped up Red Sox fan saying BRING IT RAYS!

But does anyone in Tampa Bay care?…The crowds are just now starting to crack 20,000 a game.

COME ON RAYS FANS!!!

For the first time in your teams history you are going into June with a winning record…hell you are the best team in the AL. You can stick it to the big bad defending champs who have treated your team with less dignity than a pinata…You want your fan base to not be considered a joke?
Then show up… cheer… and talk a little smack.

That’s cute. We can just picture Mr. Sullivan typing that out on his computer while wearing his girlfriend’s pink Red Sox hat, while she is in the bathroom praying to the porcelain gods.

Like we have said a million times…The only way anybody will be sure that we are dead, is parade a Red Sox fan in front of us…If we don’t extend our middle finger, it is time to start planning the wake.

SHOWDOWN! [SULLY BASEBALL]

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