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Your Tampa Bay Rays: Jennings LF Upton CF Longoria 3B Zobrist 2b Damon DH Joyce RF Kotchman 1B Jaso C Rodriguez SS Boston RedSux: Ellsbury CF Pedroia 2B Gonzalez 1B Ortiz DH Red Dick, urm…Reddick RF Traitor, urm…Crawford LF Lowrie 3B Scutaro SS Saltalmacchia C

Back in September 2010, an almost (still) relevant Morrissey made controversial comments about people of Chinese descent. These comments alluded to people of Chinese descent as being a subspecies of the human race for one reason or another. Now, whether you agree with him or not is not the point; I think we can all …

Continue reading “One Down, Two to Go AKA: Morrissey Is Arguably the First Masshole”

The hyperbolic comments about the upcoming series against Boston have become incrementally loud over the course of the last week to the fever pitch that we are now graced with. The local sports talk radio hosts, bloggers, and newspaper columnists certainly did nothing to quell or downplay the importance of the next three games. Rather they …

Continue reading “Rays vs. BoSux”

With 19 games left in the season, and only down 6 1/2 games to the Red Sux,  do the Rays still have what it takes to turn the tide and push our way into the postseason? If we can continue to get solid pitching performances led by Complete Game James and Hellboy, and get the …

Continue reading “Do you believe in Miracles?”

The Rays are readying to take the field  under blue skies at Fenway Park, in Boston. Here’s to hope that the mouth of Red Sox starting pitcher, John Lackey, is fully agape in today’s 1:35 game. After all, we all know that Lackey’s fastball velocity drops by 5 MPH when his mouth is open. After yesterdays …

Continue reading “August 17, 2011 Lineup, etc”