Waiting for Perfect
Waiting for Perfect
The Trop
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Rays Can’t Score At Home? Blame The Weather
Rays Can’t Score At Home? Blame The Weather
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Rays To host “Happy Hour” This Season At The Trop
Worried about the future of the Rays? Fear not, the Rays have a shiny object to distract you. And it is a good one. The Rays announced today that they will host a “Budweiser Happy Hour” this season at the Trop, starting two hours prior to the game. And if […]
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Major League Baseball Drops New ‘Do Over’ Rule For Catwalks
Prior to the 2010 playoffs, Major League Baseball changed Tropicana Field’s ground rules affecting batted balls that strike the catwalks. Those changes were in effect for a grand total of three games. Today, the Rays announced that the groundrules will revert back to the pre-postseason rules. In short, any ball […]
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[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Old Turf, Extending Joyce And Hamilton’s New Deal
Want a one-foot by one-foot piece of the Rays old FieldTurf? It will cost you $25 at next weekend’s FanFest, and all proceeds go to charity. For comparison, the Yankees sold one square-foot chunks of old Yankee Stadium sod for $120. Of course, the Yankees may have missed their price-mark. […]
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The Cold Dome of the Soul
Ever since B.J. Upton meekly popped up for the final out of the final game of the Rays’ 2010 season, nearly every scribe, blogger, writer, and analyst following the team has penned his or her ode to the past seven months of Bay Area baseball. Some have written of disappointment, […]
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MLB Approves Change To Trop And Catwalk Groundrules
Back in August, a batted ball struck a catwalk at The Trop costing the Rays a game. At the time we wondered if Major League Baseball would change the groundrules prior to the playoffs. Now we learn that they have. In a press release today, the Rays announced that MLB approved […]
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Is Tropicana Field Haunted?
A Rays fan was at Tropicana Field during yesterday’s off-day and noticed this car in the parking lot (thanks Sookie)… Turns out this Chevrolet HHR belongs to Jason Rawley of Fireblade Comics and a member of “The Real Tampa Bay Ghostbusters.” You can see a gallery and more on how […]
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Would A Bullet Train Solve The Rays Attendance Woes?
On September 16, the St. Pete City Council is going to vote on a resolution to build a high-speed train between Orlando and St. Pete. “Connecting St. Petersburg with the 25 million annual visitors to Disney is a game changing event for our economy and for the future of baseball […]
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Why The Rays Record Has Little To Do With Attendance
Everywhere you turned yesterday, people were dumping on the Tampa Bay area for the lack of attendance at The Trop on Monday night. One example is Dari Nowkhah, a sportscaster for ESPN, who said the following (via Twitter)… 11,000 at last night’s #Rays game. 31 games over .500. Pathetic. Why […]
