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Baseball Season Preview: Tampa Bay Devil Rays

For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all.

Every weekday until the start of the season, a different writer will preview his/her team. We asked a gaggle of writers, from the Web, from print, from books, to tell us, in as many or as little words as they need, Where Their Team Stands. This is not meant to be factual, or dispassionate, or even logical: We just asked them to riff on why they love their team so much, or what their team means to them, or whatever.

Today: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Your author is Cork Gaines.

Cork Gaines, is the editor and lead writer for Rays Index. He is a Tampa native and University of Iowa graduate that is currently lost in New York City. Despite this, he still maintains his status as a Tampa Bay Buccaneers season ticket holder and often makes trips back to the Bay Area just because he has an urge for a grouper sandwich from Hurricane. His words are after the jump.

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2:20 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Leitch
5,829 views, 64 comments

Please do not call the Tampa Bay Devil Rays "the Tampa Bay Devil Rays." [Baseball Musings]

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A whole book about former DRays GM Chuck LaMar? You bet. [DRays Bay]

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tampa bay devil rays

The Rays Want You To Walk The Plank


In case you haven't seen it yet, right there's the blueprint for the new Tampa Bay Devil Rays stadium. It's a $450 million pirate ship. And, of course, the team currently has no plan to pay for it. Pretty, though ... we guess.

1:35 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Leitch
5,887 views, 100 comments

Latest by BWE SPORTS: Is Building a Huge Pirate Ship the Greatest Idea In Baseball Stadium History? on Best Week Ever: If you gave a five-year-old boy $200 million of nonexistent Floridian tax money and asked him to imagine the greatest baseball stadium that could possibly be built by humans, what would that kid come up with? Something ninja-related? Maybe a more »

at least it's not dane cook

Kevin Costner Gets To Pretend He Plays Baseball Again

With their whole name change — no more evil Rays! — Tampa Bay is unveiling their new uniforms next month. And they're bringing out the big guns for the experience. More »

1:35 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By Leitch
4,846 views, 39 comments

out out damned coach

Pitching Coach Fails In Escape From Tropicana Field

This man is Jim Hickey, the pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. As you'd expect, life as the pitching coach of the Devil Rays — sorry: Tampa Bay Rays — is not easy. It's enough to drive a man to drink. More »

12:35 PM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Leitch
8,057 views, 58 comments

the uniforms were the problem all along

Nowhere To Go But Up For The "Rays"

It is sad when an American institution dies, the rain, as some lady said once, washing the memories off the sidewalks of life. Or something. More »

5:02 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By Leitch
8,948 views, 69 comments

dig it

The D-Rays Have Funk


In another of their amusing attempts to garner some positive publicity, the Devil Rays hosted '70s Disco Night at the Trop on Saturday. Of all the wacky scoreboard pictures, this one, and of course Delmon Young's, are our favorites.

12:35 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Leitch
2,268 views, 46 comments

Latest by jose reyes.the roof: @BigChiefChaw: Sign up some of the crack-heads... erm, 'dancers'... from Mons Venus & get Shane from Shane's World (is there a real Shane, or is that just for the site name?) to direct & you have "Stung: From the bowels more »

barry bonds

Barry In Tampa ... What Might Have Been

As we continue our plodding march toward "history," a march that has taken so long that we can't even keep up our outrage anymore, we consider what might have been. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Leitch
8,429 views, 30 comments

dead dawg

Elijah Dukes' Divorce Proceedings, Shockingly, Are Getting Nasty

As you probably might expect, the wife of "troubled" Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes is filing for divorce. (This tends to happen when you send your wife's cell phones photos of guns.) She has come up with some not-really-all-that-surprising accusations. More »

10:40 AM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Leitch
12,426 views, 84 comments

first time caller, longtime listener ...

Elijah Dukes Is On The Air

We hope you weren't trying to get through to WDAE Radio on Tuesday, as various members of the Dukes family had the phone lines jammed pretty much all day. We hate when that happens. Tuesday was Fun Day for Ron Diaz and Ian Beckles over at the Ft. Lauderdale station, as an agitated Elijah Dukes called in from Phoenix with a rambling diatribe aimed at his estranged wife, NiShea Gilbert, whom he is accused of threatening. It was presumably an attempt at equal time on Dukes' part, as Gilbert had called in to the same show a couple of hours earlier. WDAE also aired an interview with Dukes' mother, Phyllis Dukes, later that day. Elijah: More »

10:00 AM on Wed Jun 20 2007
By rickchand
7,330 views, 97 comments

Latest by CliffX: Elijah Dukes has had it with these motha-f*ckin' snakes on this motha-f*ckin' plane. more »

much anger i sense in him. not ready to begin the training is he

Elijah Dukes Continues To Bat 1.000

If you're a social worker who is considering a foster care applicaton, how could you not approve the couple who is related to Elijah Dukes? A 17-year-old girl who is in foster care with a relative of Dukes told the Tampa police that Dukes got her pregnant. The article goes on to say that Dukes will not be charged with a crime. That's because, while the age of consent in Florida is 18, if the other person is 24 or younger, age of consent is only 16. The Devil Rays outfielder was born on June 26, 1984, so ... and Dukes gets in under the tag! More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 13 2007
By rickchand
10,321 views, 115 comments

Latest by HablaingEspanol: Who's the standard bearer of fathering illegitimate children? Calvin Murphy? Ol' Dirty Bastard? We need someone to compare Dukes to. And can the Baseball Prospectus guys put together projections for how many children he'll father in the coming years? more »

charming, really

Elijah Dukes Is Not Subtle About Voice Mail

Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes is off to a splendid start this year, and just watching him play, you can tell he has superstar potential. Hell ... he could very well be the next Brett Myers! More »

12:00 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Leitch
12,809 views, 114 comments

mascots

Whatever Brings The Fans In From All The Great Weather

We appreciate that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, lacking that whole "fanbase" thing, are trying unconventional ways to rile up some local support. But no mascot, not even Raymond, should ever have to wear this outfit. More »

5:00 PM on Thu May 17 2007
By Leitch
3,784 views, 114 comments

baseball

Your AL East "Preview"

All right, whether you're ready for it or not, baseball is starting Sunday night. (The Mets will watch the Cardinals raise their World Series title flag. The Cardinals won the World Series last year.) The full slate of games kick off Monday, so we figured it was time to start previewing some divisions. Three today, three tomorrow, with hopefully your predictions as well, because, as you all know, we're terrible at predictions. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Leitch
3,270 views, 118 comments

baseball

Wait, Who's Teaching Whom Here?

You know, nothing is going to encourage kids to head out there and hit the books than an interactive reading session with Tampa Bay Devil Rays Shawn Camp and Rudy Lugo, particularly because each and every one of the kids is better at reading than Shawn Camp and Rudy Lugo. (Seriously, those SUPERSTAR ATHLETES appear to have been failed by the school systems. Really!) More »

11:00 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Leitch
2,187 views, 65 comments

baseball

The Devil Rays Suddenly Have A Fan

A couple of weeks ago, MJD told you about blogger Manny Stiles auctioning off his team loyalty, setting up an eBay auction (with proceeds going to AIDS research) for a bidder who would want him to write about his/her favorite team. It was a clever idea, and the bidding eventually reached $535. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Mar 8 2007
By Leitch
2,398 views, 37 comments

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Baseball Season Preview: Tampa Bay Devil Rays

EM>You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team. More »

12:45 PM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Leitch
5,717 views, 39 comments