10: So this guy manages our team and announces Monday Night Football?
9: I think it is a dumb rule. I say, if the guys playing catch over on the sidelines catch the ball, it should count as an out.
8: Hey Tampa Bay Rays...that kinda rhymes!
7: Even though this Pena guy grew up in Boston, they still allow him to play for our team? I bet Boston is ticked off about that one!
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6: How come it does not make that pingy sound like the bats do at little Timmy's Pee Wee games?
5: Even though we lost, it is amazing we made the playoffs in our first year!
4: What are those big, long yellow poles way out there on that fence for? They could get in the way of one of those long hits.
3: If I only have worn this hat for a few hours, do you think that vendor guy will let me return it?
2: Do you think this cowbell would get anything on eBay?
1: C'mon, you have to be joking. That guy's name cannot be Evan Longoria!
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about 1 month ago
Seriously? What do you have against our fans. They are not that stupid. The people who don't know much about baseball are the Red Sox fans who show up in our park and expect to have a good time. I saw at least 10 drunk Red Sox fans getting led out of the stadium. I think I saw one Rays fan. Red Sox fans are loud and obnoxious. Rays fans are just loud.
from about 1 month ago
hi devon. red sox fans are obnoxious, no doubt about it. i could very easily do a top ten list about red sox fans being knuckleheads at the trop. but i have to laugh when i see people wearing rays shirts, acticg like it is life and death to them. this is a team that drew 10-15 thousand per game. where were all these fans during the season? i would never travel to another team's stadium because i would be embarrased to be with some red sox fans who act like pinheads on the road.
even when the rays were bad, there was always a reason to see the team. baldelli, delmon young, cantu, crawford, kazmir, lots of young talent. but no one showed up. i am not talking moderate crowds. i am talking anemic. and i do not want to hear about the ballpark's location, or any other excuse. now they are good, and tons of people show up.....you have to expect a little backlash.
from about 1 month ago
Andy,
Just because fans don't show up to stadiums when their team is terrible doesn't mean they're not fans. Who says they aren't watching on TV?
It is hard to stomach paying a lot of money to watch a team that isn't good. That's why they weren't there in the season, because they didn't know if the team would once again suck toward the end.
There also a new team who's never won before. It takes time to build a loyal fan base like Boston has (which is also full of bandwagon fans, so don't accuse Rays fans of not being real) and this might be the year they start to do that.
BASEBALL, PLEASE ACCEPT RAYS FANS INTO YOUR EXCLUSIVE CLUB.
Andrew (A Dodger fan in Los Angeles).
about 1 month ago
fair points, andrew, but as i told devon, there was always a reason to go see the rays. even when they struggled, they always had tons of young talent. hell, the last few years, kazmir himself was reason to go see a game. this year, the team was awesome from day one, and no one showed up. i am not talking april-may, i am talking into summer and september.
and yes, any team that starts to have success has fans jump on the bandwagon. i used to get a hard time in my own home town for being a pats fan when i was a kid, and i grew up in massachusetts. now everyone and their brother is a pats fan around here. but to have anemic crowd year in year out, and even throughout the great regular season they had in 2008 is pathetic. it gets me mad to think the people of tampa have this great baseball team, while great fans in seattle lost their nba team.
from about 1 month ago
True true,
Remember the angels before 2002? They didn't draw many people at all that year, but then won the world series and ever since have been among the leaders in attendance... The Angels had the same stellar young talent (Erstad, Anderson, Salmon, Percival, Finley, Edmonds, and much more) But could never put it together.
All I"m saying is, lets give the Rays fans a chance to win it all and attend. If they continue to not show up, (As marlins fans have done) then we can label them bad fans.
I don't know that the Rays will hvae the same issue though, seeing as they are going to get a new stadium and have a core of young players that are very exciting to watch. The Marlins firesale after they are good and still play in that awful Dolphin Stadium.
Let's give them a chance
about 1 month ago
I absolutely hate the Red Sox but I found this absolutely hilarious!!
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