Archive for October 20th, 2008

The Green, Green grass of home (plate)

They beat the frost (barely). The sod is down at the new Stadium. Check the wcbs880 website, they have photos taken from their traffic helicopter.

The Phillies

I agree on the temperment of Philadelphia fans in general and, I really can’t stand their football team and their hockey team. The Phillies, however are a little different – they recently suffered their 10,000th loss in franchise history so they are a little overdue. The Rays have never won it, but they [...]

Pure joy

Watching the Rays jump into a big pile, unrestrained joy. Not one of those guys looked older than insanely happy eight year olds. Some day they are going to drag a guy whose rib cage was crushed and needs a defibrillator from the bottom of one of those celebration piles. I watched most of the [...]

Congratulations to the Rays

Nice job to eliminate the Sox. Obviously for Yankee fans, there’s a little extra “pep” in the step this morning with the Red sox going down in 7 games. And, congratulations to Matt Garza, who I never thought much of, but what a year he’s had, winning the ALCS MVP award.
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