Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Rays Lose to the Twins, Kyle Farnsworth Gets Brusied, and Another Round of Roster Cuts

The Rays dropped their fourth consecutive Grapefruit League game Saturday in a 6-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins. Tampa Bay is now 14-13 on the spring with only seven games left to play until opening day. David Price got the start Saturday and put together a solid performance early on, though things started to slip …

Links For Finks

It’s a fairly slow Rays news day – at least so far. That said, here are a few links to some mandatory reading. You will be tested on the subject matter, so no Cliff’s Notes for you skimmers! Trib: Why Won’t Rays Open Their Books? by: Noah Pransky Tampa Voters Love Buckhorn, Don’t Love Stadium …

Looking Back While Moving Forward, Rays vs. Red Sox 5/26/12 (Starting Lineup Included)

Starting Lineup 5/26/12: After some delay, the starting lineup (below) has finally been released. There was some doubt whether Luke Scott would be in the lineup or not, after taking a 97 MPH fastball in the knee last night. Low and behold, he will be in the lineup tonight. Note: we weren’t sure where he’d …

Gunfight at the O-Trop Corral

So this is who we play tomorrow?  Ummmmm….  I know he’s supposed to be some super bad-ass or whatever, but really, I think the Rays are gonna have like….9 guys out there…….and some backup too. I mean, maybe the gun is a little scary.  But 2/3 of the Detroit Tigers carry guns and that didn’t go …

Our World Series Prediction…

Is the Tampa Bay Rays vs. The San Francisco Giants. The Rays take the series in game 6. The best part of it is, Pat Burrell goes 0-24 with 24 swinging strikeouts! After his 24th strikeout in the 8th inning of game 6, Joe Maddon runs out and bitch-slaps him…setting a Tampa Bay Rays franchise record for …