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• Rays! PUMPKIN CARVING TIME

  IT'S PUMPKIN CARVING TIME!
  
  This Halloween, display your pride as a Rays fan with these pumpkin carving templates, FREE to download now! Choose from either the Rays logo, the Rays cap logo or the burst.
  
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:34pm EDT
  

• ALCS Champs-One Year Ago Today. Our TampaBay Rays.

  
  Boston Red Sox - 1, Tampa Bay Rays - 3
  October 19. Tropicana Field. 40,473. [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
  

• Cracker Jack

  
  
  Good NYT article on Cracker Jack.
  
  [Does not mention Rays. ] [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:36am EDT
  

• Great Season Rays! See You in Charlotte for Spring Training

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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 3:55pm EDT
  

• Carlos Peña 2009 AL Home Run Record!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Carlos Peña ended the 2009 season tied for the Home Run Record with 39. His season was ended 25 games ago by Yankee CC Sabathia's rotten pitching, but Carlos' record [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
  

• Rays Take Series from Yankees. Rays 5; Yankees 3. Dioner Navarro Blasts 2-Run Homer Off Andy Pettitte.

  
  
  So, the AL-East 2009 winners bow to the 2008 winners--the Rays--showing the Rays could take the ALCS again. Navi's homerun! Niemann wins. Great save Balfour.' [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
  

• B.J. Upton Hits for the Cycle: Rays History!

  
  
  It's still the middle of the game..Rays vs. Yankees at Tropicana Field. Thanks to Yankee pitcher, C.C. Sabathia, for setting up B. J. Upton who hit the cycle for the first time in Rays history. Yankee pitcher Jonathan Albaladejo threw him the a two-run' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
  

• Tampa Rays Humiliate Yankee Pitcher CC Sabathia and End His Season at 19

  
  
  Sabathia's final start Friday was one of the worst of his career. With a chance to earn his 20th victory, Sabathia fell flat on a night that belonged to B. J. Upton, who hit for the cycle in a 13-4 rout by the' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:12pm EDT
  

• Rays Have Second Winning Year. Joe Maddon Gets Pie.

  
  
  Rays clinch second winning season
  Rays manager Joe Maddon was interviewed on TV after the Rays’ win Wednesday, and while talking with Todd Kalas, received the old shaving cream pie in the face from catcher Dioner Navarro.
  
  “I feel accepted,” Maddon [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  

• AL East Clinch One Year Anniversary

  
  
  
  On September 26, 2008. The Tampa Bay Rays clinched the AL-East.
  The TampaBay Blue team was at the airport when the Team cam home from Detroit.
  We are one team. [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 6:48pm EDT
  

• Fernando Perez. "Robert Creeley in the Outfield."

  Like poetry, baseball is a kind of counter culture. The (optional) isolation from the outside world (which I often opt for); the idleness about which—and out of which—so many poems are written or sung: I see this state of mind as a blessing.--quote from essay by Fernando Perez .Poetry [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 7:23am EDT
  

• Casa Don Juan- Tampa Bay's Finest Mexican Restaurant

  Casa Don Juan
  1110 S US Highway 41
  Ruskin, FL 33570
  (813) 641-8502
  
  The TampaBay Blue Team eats often at Casa Don Juan in Ruskin because the food is so great and we are glad to see that the food critic for [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
  

• Tampa Bay Rays Pepsi Fan Wall Of Fame -Sunday, September 6, 2009

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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 10:59am EDT
  

• Rays vs. Red Sox: Rays Lead 5-1 this season at the Trop --Our Demented Themepark

  
  
  Marc Topkin writes: Rays lead 8-4 this season, 5-1 at the Trop.
  
  Adam Ligore of the Boston Globe has written of Tropicana Field: It is a baseball diamond trapped inside a demented theme park, where catwalks hang and cowbells clang. Playing [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
  

• OLE! Peña hit his AL-best 38th homer. Rays Beat Tigers 11-7.

  
  Carlos Peña hit his AL-best 38th homer and drove in four runs to help the Rays beat the Tigers 11-7 8/31/2009 against the Detroit Tigers. [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 9:47am EDT
  

• Kaz, You Are the Best

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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 6:29pm EDT
  

• West Coast Road Trip Made Fans Blue

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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:53pm EDT
  

• Tropicana Field- Demented Theme Park

  
  It is a baseball diamond trapped inside a demented theme park, where catwalks hang and cowbells clang. Playing here feels weird for invaders. It feels like home for the Rays.
  
  After the Rays beat the Red Sox on August 4 and 5, 2009 Adam [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:04pm EDT
  

• Our Man, Matt Garza, Puts Jobo the JellyBrain Yankee on Notice

  Photo: Matt Garza, ALCS MVP-2008.
  
  Rays pitcher Matt Garza was fined but not suspended for implying he hit Mark Teixeira with a pitch Wednesday as retaliation for the Yankees brushing back (and hitting) Evan Longoria during the series.
  
  Joba Chamberlain threw [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2009, 8:19am EDT
  

• Maybe the Rays Lost 2004 Championship Only Because Other Teams' Players Were Not Playing Fair - Like David "Papi" Ortiz and Manny Ramirez

  
  WHY NOT THE DEVIL RAYS in 2004? They weren't on "The List."
  
  WITH EACH new revelation of a baseball star’s past use of a performance-enhancing drug, Red Sox fans’ hope that drugs would not cloud the team’s most recent World Series wins in' [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 7:58am EDT
  

• This Gorilla is for Zorilla

  
  
  
  
  As seen in Left Field at Tropicana on July 29, 2009. [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 11:53pm EDT
  

• Carl Crawford is All Star MVP

  
  
  Carl Crawford robs Brad Hawpe of a homer in the seventh.
  
  Carl Crawford wins the MVP Ted Williams Award in the 2009 All-Star game! [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 11:40pm EDT
  

• Lineup Card Mistake Results in Grand Game as Rays Beat Cleveland 7-5 on May 17 at the Trop.

  
  "Sunday's game would have been eventful enough, the Rays rallying for a 7-5 victory for their second three-game winning streak.
  
  But that was after the manager screwed up the lineup card and the Rays had to play without the DH, the first AL team'" [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 8:37am EDT
  

• B.J. Upton's Walkoff Home Run Beats Indians, 8-7 at the Trop.

  From Joe Smith, Times Staff Writer, Saturday, May 16, 2009:
  The fans chanted "B.J. Upton!" as the struggling leadoff hitter came to bat in a tie game, and Upton had them on their feet after a walkoff homer to left on a 3-and-2 pitch, lifting the Rays to [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2009, 8:09am EDT
  

• Man of Steal: Carl Crawford as Rays Beat Boston 5-3 at the Trop on May 3.

  
  Carl Crawford got on base in each of his five at-bats and stole six bases to give him a Major League record -leading 17 this season-- andtying the modern-day Major League record.
  
  
  Combined, the Rays stole a club-record eight bases.[...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2009, 6:02pm EDT
  

• Rays Fans in Ruskin

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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
  

• Parked at the Trop Flag Flying

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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
  

• Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi at the Trop

  
  Mayor Hirohisa Ishibashi and other representatives of Uwajima, Japan, presented the Rays with pearl broaches recognizing Tampa Bay's AL championship. Uwajima is the hometown of 2B Akinori Iwamura.' [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 7:58pm EDT
  

• Raising the American League East Banner- 4.13.2009

  
  
  Rays Beat Yankees 15-5.
  Let's Go Rays.' [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 7:39pm EDT
  

• Rays Spring Training with North Port Fans

  
  
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 6:41am EDT
  

• American League Championship Ring

  
  The Tampa Bay Rays today released images of the replica American League Championship rings that will be given to all fans attending the Rays vs. New York Yankees game on Tuesday, April 14 at Tropicana Field. The rings are sponsored by International Plaza.
  
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
  

• Raising the ALCS Flag on Feb. 25 in Port Charlotte

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  Posted: February 28, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  

• Tropicana Will Return to Old Logo

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  Posted: February 28, 2009, 2:06pm EST
  

• A Note of Thanks from Rocco

  
  
  Thanks from Rocco. [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2009, 3:18pm EST
  

• ALCS Trophy and Time for Season Tix Choice

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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

• TampaBay Rays, a Team Always Looking to the Future: Rays Spring Training is Only 70 Days Away

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  The Rays' magical season finally ended in the World Series but Spring Training looms......' [...]
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  Posted: December 26, 2008, 10:06pm EST
  

• St.Pete Celebrates the Rays-Oct.31, 2008.

  
  Only a month ago. The last event of the Magical Season.
  
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  Posted: November 30, 2008, 9:47pm EST
  

• Joe Maddon-AL Manager of the Year

  
  Joe Maddon received his due diligence when he was named the American League Manager of the Year, as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
  
  Maddon, 54, was the only manager listed on all 28 ballots cast by two writers in' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2008, 10:14pm EST
  

• Evan Longoria-Rookie of the Year

  
  Evan Longoria, the third baseman whose powerful bat keyed the Rays' remarkable turnaround season, was the unanimous American League selection of the 28 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, for the 27 homers and 85 RBIs that followed his delayed addition' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 9:56pm EST
  

• Carlos Peña wins first Gold Glove for Rays

  
  
  Carlos Peña grabbed attention for all those balls he hit. Now the Tampa Bay first baseman and his teammates are getting noticed for the ones he caught. Pena raised the Rays' profile Thursday when he become the first player in' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 7:17pm EST
  

• Andrew Friedman-Executive of the Year

  
  Andrew Friedman of the Tampa Bay Rays is The Sporting News' choice as Executive of the Year for 2008.
  
  The award was announced on Monday night during a dinner at the launch of the General Managers Meetings at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort.[...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 10:05pm EST
  

• For Tampa Bay Rays: "How different everything is right now? "

  
  
  How different everything is right now?
  
  It is different. It's entirely different. The whole vibe is different. We've arrived as an organization, and as a force within major-league baseball. And our guys now have a national face, and I like that. One of [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2008, 7:41am EST
  

• "Against Obama" by Alexander Cockburn

  Against Obama
  By Alexander Cockburn
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  "In substantive terms Obama's run has been the negation of almost
  every decent progressive principle, a negation achieved with scarcely
  a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold him to
  account. The Michael Moores stay silent. Abroad, Obama stands for
  imperial [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2008, 7:36am EST
  

• Vote Nader/Gonzalez to Overcome Democrats' Broken Promises

  
  What Do They Have to Do to Lose Your Vote?
  The Trail of Broken Promises
  
  By MATT GONZALEZ
  
  Watching the Democrats in the final weeks of the presidential election has been a lesson in revisionist history. While they lament the terrible crimes [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 9:36am EDT
  

• WE LOVE OUR RAYS-They Are at the World Series!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  How about Crawford and Hinske--Home Runs! [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2008, 11:49pm EDT
  

• Rays Win American League Pennant. 10.19.2008

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  Posted: October 20, 2008, 3:07am EDT
  

• Michael Agius holds the homerun ball hit by Evan Longoria into the Green Monster. Rays Win 9-1. Game 3-ALCS. 10.13.2008.

  
  Michael Agius holds the homerun ball hit by Evan Longoria into the Green Monster seats in the third inning at Fenway. [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2008, 10:10pm EDT
  

• Rays Walk Up Music [not complete]

  No game tonight so I compiled as complete a list of Walk-Up music as I could find.
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  Willy Aybar."Low" by T. Pain Ft. Flo Rida.
  
  Rocco Baldelli."Funk #49" by James Gang;"Sunshine Of Your Love" by Cream;"War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.
  
  Grant Balfour- "King of" [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2008, 5:22pm EDT
  

• Rays Win! ALCS. Game 2 on Upton Sacrifice Fly.

  
  
  Rays Win!
  ALCS. Game 2 at Tropicana Field on Upton Sacrifice Fly. 9-8 in 11 innings.
  The Rays scrapped their way back into the ALCS in Game 2 in the most familiar way possible. They fell behind, and they came back. They fell behind, [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2008, 9:43am EDT
  

• ERIC Hinske- You are the Rays

  
  
  
  While Eric Hinske may not be on the roster just now, he has been crucial to the Rays' winning season.' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2008, 4:53pm EDT