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World Series Preview: Rays Vs. Phillies
The World Series is truly my favorite week of the year. Having the World Series going on is an excuse that gets you out of anything, every year. No matter what plans I might be forced into, all I have to say is, "Hey, the World Series is on," and people understand. You know how Will gets about his baseball ...
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ALCS Preview: Rays Vs. Red Sox
It is perhaps a clear indication that I drink a bit more than I should that, when I saw that the Rays and the Red Sox had both clinched on the same night, I thought, "Whew, good. Now one team won't be more hungover than the other one in Game 1." Hey, sometimes these things matter. I have to speak on a lunch panel the day after Election Night, which will surely go deep into the morning. I'll be fortunate not to vomit on someone's shoes. And no one wants to see Rocco Baldelli vomiting. He'll surely lose part of his small intestine.
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By Will LeitchComment by twoeightnine: Anyone going to the game Friday or Saturday? I'm going to be in town and due to unfortunate circumstances my... 9 Responses | Other threads
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ALDS Preview: Rays Vs. White Sox
The Tampa Bay Rays are in the playoffs. Let it roll off your tongue. Toss it around. Swish it a bit. Look at the sentence closer. It might be a palindrome. The Tampa Bay Rays Are In The Playoffs. Everything's freaking NUTS, people.
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By Will LeitchComment by Sir Hotbod Handsomeface: The Tampa Bay Rays are in the playoffs...It might be a palindrome. Dammit I'm mad. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Baseball Season Preview: Tampa Bay
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. More »DevilRays -
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Please do not call the Tampa Bay Devil Rays "the Tampa Bay Devil Rays." [Baseball Musings]
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By LeitchComment by FightTiger: Go to hell, Silverman, Devil Rays President. Win a few games - then you take your dog and pony show so... more » | Other threads
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A whole book about former DRays GM Chuck LaMar? You bet. [DRays Bay]
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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 BayDevilRays 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. -
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by Unamerican: @Blackaces: I applaud the cost cutting move of not featuring players' names on the jersey, but simply 'Player'. I... more » | Other threads
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by grinderpete: Tonight at 11: Investigative reporter Carl Monday catches a pitching coach drunk and ramming the bat boy. You wont... more » | Other threads
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by mordecai1908: @acer: But you can always call them last-place. more » | Other threads
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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.
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By LeitchComment by Come a little Miroslav Klose You're My Kind of Man: @BigChiefChaw: Sign up some of the crack-heads... erm, 'dancers'... from Mons Venus & get Shane from Shane's World (is there... more » | Other threads
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 »
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By rickchandComment by HablaingEspanol: Who's the standard bearer of fathering illegitimate children? Calvin Murphy? Ol' Dirty Bastard? We need someone to compare Dukes to.... more » | Other threads
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by Philistine: @JebusHChrist: So you can say it all you want,...if you want to sound like an illiterate sumbitch. more » | Other threads
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by Frank the Tank: Bill Wirtz came close to signing the blogger, but talks broke down over the owner's steadfast refusal to allow the... more » | Other threads
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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 »
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By LeitchComment by bantamweight: *** UPDATE: At Autopartswarehouse they ensure nothing but clean and fast transactions of their quality products. Their customer service representatives are more... more » | Other threads
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This Man Is Extremely, EXTREMELY Old
This bespeckled elderly gentleman is Silas Simmons, and he was recently discovered to be the oldest living Negro Leagues ballplayer. He is 110 ... wha? He's 110??!! And he's 111 next month? Jesus. More » -
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Must Have Passing Baseball Interest
It's tough to find a good job sometimes. Lord knows we rattled around for almost a decade waiting for this one. If you haven't found your dream job yet, the Devil Rays might have a gig for you. More »
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By LeitchComment by The Great American Placekicker: The Devil Rays are on their way up. They have the potential to carry more talent on their team than... more » | Other threads
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Hey, Guys ... You're Still On Camera
You know, we continue to find it amazing, in this day of MLB Extra Innings and MLB.tv, that any television announcer would speak freely during the commercial break. Dude: There's a microphone on you. Someone's going to hear. More »
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Delmon Young ... Still A Dick
For those who might have missed it, Delmon Young, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays phenom who winged his bat at an umpire in April, has finished up his 50- (actually 49-)game suspension. Has he come back all contrite and humbled? Not exactly, says Rays Index in a recap of an interview Young gave MinorLeagueBaseball.com.
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The Virtual Ghost Of Scott Kazmir
One of our favorite aspects of this here Internets is something that should be self-evident: Its inherent appeal to obsessives. No matter what you care about, there's someone out there who cares just as much, probably more. Get it out there, someone will find you. We wonder, sometimes, if the Web had existed, say, 40 years ago, if there'd be an angry Cubs fan still ranting away about trading Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio. More »
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By LeitchComment by The Assimilated Negro: Kazmir looks good, and the deal is obviously cringeworthy, but the nausea comes from the particulars of the deal, and... more » | Other threads
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One Night At The Trop
We've never been to a game at Tropicana Field in Tampa, home of the Devil Rays, but we always imagined it would be like visiting an enormous Wal-Mart right before it closes. Gawker Media fly-in-the-ointment Andrew Krucoff visited the Trop on Wednesday and filed this brief, but very funny report just for us. Enjoy A-Rod doing the twist, the saddest autograph line and much more. We totally need to see a game in Tampa. More » -
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The Delmon Young Bat Flip-Out
Tampa Bay Devil Rays fans — both of 'em! Wee! — are all a a-twitter today, as they try to figure out just how long it's going to take top prospect Delmon Young to get to the big leagues now. In case you missed it, Young, after taking a called third strike last night, flipped his bat into the chest of an umpire last evening. More »
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By LeitchComment by Roger Klotz: Delmon is pretty good on MLB Baseball for ps2. And also, i am fan, so that makes 3. more » | Other threads
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Where A Joke Goes To Die
Remember that brief moment when you thought you were the only one who knew about the genius of Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken's "SNL" sketch parodying "Behind The Music: Blue Oyster Cult." Or, as they say, the infamous "More Cowbell" sketch. It was hysterical, and then, suddenly, it was everywhere. (It seems like every fantasy league had that one guy who named his team that ... at least until Bill Simmons named his notes column after it.) More »
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By LeitchComment by Tugged At Mets Fan: Yes, "Sweet Caroline" and everything associated with Neil Diamond, from the album cover of "Hot August Nights" where he appears... more » | Other threads
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Four More Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at tips@deadspin.com. Today: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays. By the way, we know we started this feature with the Devil Rays, but that was so long ago we thought we'd take another crack at it. More » -
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Your AL East "Preview"
Obviously, the landscape of the American League East obviously changed dramatically yesterday, but we're gonna go ahead and try to forecast matters anyway. It's hard, but we must tredge forward, regardless. We must stay strong. Some bad predictions: More »
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By LeitchComment by Manny Ortez: Anyone who picks New Yawk over the Sox needs to have their head examined. Even without Damon - and Mike... more » | Other threads
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Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
We'll, we're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at tips@deadspin.com. Today, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. More » -
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There Are No Devil Rays Here
We're guessing this kind of the sports equivalent of going into the witness protection program and then putting on fake glasses, growing a beard and dying your hair. More »
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By LeitchComment by PeteJayhawk: Me thinks the Tampa Bay Devil Rays already exist as a Minor League team. Hopefully the name change will include the... more » | Other threads
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Blogdome: Free The Hockey Bloggers
• Tampa Bay Lightning decide that they, and their sport, are as popular as they could possibly be and refuse press passes to team blogger. [Off Wing Opinion] More » -
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So Long, Lou Pinella. Let's Forget This Happened
We all knew it was coming, but it's a sad day nevertheless: Lou Pinella has been bought out of his contract by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The whole Pinella-in-Tampa deal was a quixotic one from the get-go, and, as we all suspected, it seemed to drive Pinella insane. There was the (pictured) dying-of-hair incident, the blatant screams for help from the bench and, our favorite, the time he threatened to start the game with relievers on the mound, with starters taking over in the third inning. More » -
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To Watch Tonight ...
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To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your children file for emancipation ... More »
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