Tonight, Let It Be Sonnanstine: 2008 Tampa Bay DEVIL Rays Thread

2007:
Manny Ramirez - 20 HRs
Barry Bonds - 28 HRs

As a Red Sox fan, you should know petulance:

Manny apologizes after shoving Red Sox official to ground:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3467042

Manny shoves Youkilis in dugout:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3429644

1) This is a TAMPA BAY thread
2) Neither Boston nor Bonds have a monopoly on petulance
3) Small sample size :D

good: anything that screws with the Yanks/BoSox drama

bad: lolfanbase

Upton
Crawford
Bonds
Pena
Longoria
Hinske
Navaro
Iwamura
Bartlett

More like Hinske / Gomes?

Hinske vs. RHP - .284 / .359 / .580
Gomes vs. LHP - .219 / .311 / .484

OK, Maybe not Gomes.

Or Navarro instead of Navaro?

Yeah, that guy.

2007:
Manny Ramirez - 20 HRs
Barry Bonds - 28 HRs

lol barry on juice.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/images/uploads/432080630016_Red_Sox_v_Rays.JPG

lmbo

http://www.hardballtimes.com/images/uploads/432080630016_Red_Sox_v_Rays.JPG

The best part about Tampa Bay actually winning: that shitbrick what likes to yap, even if he's there, can't be heard over the actual CHEERING. For the HOME TEAM.

they've doubled attendance. up to 72 a game this year, i hear.

i'll have you know that shitbrick is my hero.

I BELIEVE!!!111

^^ frontrunner

http://www.norman.k12.ok.us/087/webpix/Bandwagon%20Final.jpg

so the RAYS stand for the rays of the sun! howbout that rebranding!

i thought it would be way cooler if it was just a bunch of guys named ray drinking jug wine behind a gas station. i'd see a ballgame built around that.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/rays.jpg

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/tb/fan_forum/dotg.jsp

"Dr. Stat"

http://www.mlb.com/tb/ticketing/summer_concerts.jsp

MC Hammer • '90s Night • July 19 vs. Blue Jays

NB: anyone jumping off the bandwagon right now is a poncey bitch.

I was wondering if I should so that they'd go back to their winnings ways!

I saw two dudes in nyc with Tampa Bay hats this weekend. Don't think I have ever seen that before. At first I thought they must be on the team.

damn, sorry for reviving the old Rays thread. Anyway, on their "anti-philosophy":

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article696277.ece

Ah, the beauty of the Getaway Day lineup:

A. Iwamura 2B
B. Zobrist CF
C. Pena 1B
E. Longoria 3B
D. Navarro C
W. Aybar SS
J. Bartlett DH (is Gardy stealth managing?)
E. Hinske LF
G. Gross RF

cardiac kids

Wedge, boy, he's something: uses Rafael Perez (2.86 ERA) for 2 excellent innings (1 hit, 4 Ks), then puts in Edward Mujica (5.16 ERA) for the 9th. 3 straight hits from the 7-9 hitters later, buh-bye save!

Yes, I realize I'm bagging on Wedge for a pitcher's failure to get through the ass end of a lineup w/out giving up a 3 run lead.

oh cleveland

looked like the mets bullpen out there

or CLE circa '06

but hey GO RAYS you clutchy fucks

lawl

no borowski, no credibility

The Rays just tied a franchise record with 70 wins for a season.

Crawford to DL...

BALDELLI ACTIVATED.

what!?
i thought Baldelli was done for good because of some kind of chronic fatigue?

IT'S THE ROC

where is maura?

he is still battling his neo-mitochondrial condition.

You may notice a different look at Andy Sonnanstine (below) when he takes the mound tonight in Oakland. Specifically, you may notice he has a chin.

The Tampa Bay Rays pitcher shaved his beard Saturday night when he learned Rocco Baldelli was coming off the disabled list and returning to the lineup.

Baldelli began growing his beard at the start of the NHL playoffs in hopes it would bring luck to his Boston Bruins. It didn't. So Baldelli decided it would be a rehab beard, and that he wouldn't shave until he returned to the big leagues.

Sonnanstine, in a show of support, grew a beard, too, vowing not to shave until Baldelli returned.

Once Baldelli learned he would be activated prior to Sunday's game, he went to Sonnanstine's room at the team hotel in Seattle and the two had a welcome back to the big leagues beard shaving party.

"We trimmed it up, and we played with it a little bit," Sonnanstine told the St. Petersburg Times. "We took it down to just the goatee, then just some handlebars to see how it looked. We took some pictures and stuff. It was cool."

Longoria out for 2-3 weeks? (fractured wrist)

Tied for MLB best 76 wins (with the Angels they just routed and the Cubbies).

BP playoff odds predicts that the AL East winner will have 97 wins.
Tampa will have to play 21-17 (.553)
Boston will have to play 25-12 (.676)
NYY rofl will have to lmao play 31-7 (.816)

Barring any 2007/2008 Mets style collapse, things are looking pretty nice for the Rays, esp. when they get Longoria, Percival and Crawford back in ~4 weeks.

bj upton is pretty LOL. gets benched 3 games last 2 weeks for not hustling and then ropes one thinking it's going out and then gets tagged out at a second on what should have been a routine double.

too bad dan shaughnessy wasn't covering the came, he might have had a coronary.

haha yeah that was hilarious, better because he didn't even speed up when he saw that it hit the wall, which is what ultimately led him to being tagged, not the fact that he pimped it out of the box

wau, SS Mets-trolling on non-Mets threads

since when is the stating the fact that the Mets collapse of 2007 was the greatest choke in the history of recorded sports considered to be trolling?

Barring any 2007/2008 Mets style collapse...

Employing Tuomas' rhetorical strategy for your own faux-naive Morb-baiting purposes isn't a good look for you, Steve.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/oliphant/oa048.jpg

lol from Michael Kay on Yankeecast, first week of season:

"Baseball Prospectus, a very respected website in the industry, forecasts 88 wins for the Rays. Now, they're in the AL East; where are those wins going to come from?"

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:12 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

Fernando Perez, otoh, seems awesome:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8129

(also, I chatted with David Laurila for 5 minutes at the SABR convention this year and didn't remember his bylines til afterward, duh)

Perez tempts me to root for the Rays - if he's got an AmStud degree, that means he's studied with Andrew Delbanco?

does anyone know what the pre-season/spring training vegas odds were for the Rays to win the world series?

nobody? hmmm...

okay, just got two separate sources: 40-1 and 50-1 as of late march 2008.

Believe it was 50-1.

Tonight, Let It Be Kazmir

googled some more:

Some baseball odds as the season begins
March 29th, 2008, 7:01 pm · Post a Comment · posted by jackmagruder
Some baseball odds entering the season, courtesy of bodog.com …
Odds to win the World Series:
Boston Red Sox 4/1
New York Mets 9/2
New York Yankees 13/2
Detroit Tigers 9/1
Chicago Cubs 10/1
Los Angeles Angels 11/1
Cleveland Indians 12/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 14/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 16/1
Philadelphia Phillies 18/1
Seattle Mariners 22/1
Colorado Rockies 25/1
San Diego Padres 28/1
Atlanta Braves 30/1
Toronto Blue Jays 30/1
Milwaukee Brewers 30/1
Chicago White Sox 40/1
St Louis Cardinals 45/1
Minnesota Twins 50/1
Cincinnati Reds 60/1
Houston Astros 60/1
Oakland Athletics 70/1
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 75/1
Texas Rangers 75/1
San Francisco Giants 100/1
Washington Nationals 100/1
Kansas City Royals 125/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 150/1
Florida Marlins 150/1
Baltimore Orioles 200/1

Rays 150/1 Shot to win world series!

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At the start of the season the Tampa Bay Rays were 150/1 Shots to win the world series. This is obvious but if you just put $10 on them your gunna be up 1500 bones (When they win). It just goes to show you how much things can change through a LONG season
ODDS
New York Yankees 9/2
Boston Red Sox 9/2
Chicago White Sox 35/1
Oakland Athletics 80/1
Los Angeles Angels 10/1
Minnesota Twins 55/1
Detroit Tigers 11/2
Toronto Blue Jays 35/1
Cleveland Indians 12/1
Texas Rangers 80/1
New York Mets 11/2
St Louis Cardinals 50/1
San Diego Padres 30/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 14/1
Philadelphia Phillies 16/1
Florida Marlins 150/1
Atlanta Braves 28/1
Houston Astros 60/1
Cincinnati Reds 65/1
San Francisco Giants 100/1
Chicago Cubs 15/1
Colorado Rockies 25/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 20/1
Milwaukee Brewers 28/1
Seattle Mariners 20/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 200/1
Baltimore Orioles 200/1
Kansas City Royals 200/1
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 150/1
Washington Nationals 150/1

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Back before the season started, many bettors were placing wagers on who would win the 2008 World Series. Not many of them had the Phillies or the Tampa Bay rays anywhere near the top.
2008 World Series Odds
--Still in contention

New York Mets 4 - 1
Boston Red Sox 9 - 2
New York Yankees 5 - 1
Detroit Tigers 6 - 1
Cleveland Indians 10 - 1
Chicago Cubs 12 - 1
Los Angeles Angels 16 - 1
Arizona Diamondbacks 20 - 1
Seattle Mariners 20 - 1
Philadelphia Phillies 20 - 1
Atlanta Braves 25 - 1
San Diego Padres 25 - 1
Colorado Rockies 25 - 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 25 - 1
Chicago White Sox 30 - 1
Milwaukee Brewers 30 - 1
Toronto Blue Jays 30 - 1
St Louis Cardinals 50 - 1
Minnesota Twins 60 - 1
Cincinnati Reds 60 - 1
Houston Astros 60 - 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 100 - 1
Florida Marlins 100 - 1
Texas Rangers 100 - 1
Tampa Bay Rays 100 - 1
Washington Nationals 100 - 1
Baltimore Orioles 100 - 1
San Francisco Giants 100 - 1
Kansas City Royals 100 - 1
Oakland Athletics 100 - 1

from http://www.bettorsworld.com/world-series-odds.htm

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/20/tampa-bay-rays-come-out-for-obama/

RAYS STEP UP

So....................... world series. huh?

Finally, an article that does deserve to be published in ALL-CAPS.

http://www.abc6.com/sports/36277274.html

GREAT NEWS FOR ROCCO BALDELLI. A VISIT TO THE CLEVELAND CLINIC LAST WEEK REVEALED THAT DOCTORS HAD MISDIAGNOSED HIS ILLNESS.

BALDELLI MISSED MUCH OF LAST SEASON, AND WHEN HE DID PLAY, HE WAS LIMITED BECAUSE OF EXTREME FATIQUE. DOCTORS THOUGHT IT WAS MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDER WHICH CAN BE FATAL.
THE BALDELLI FAMILY TOLD ME TONIGHT THAT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC DIAGNOSED HIS CONDITION AS CHANNEL-OPATHY, A NON-PROGRESSIVE, HIGHLY TREATABLE DISEASE.

CHANNEL-OPATHY IS A DISEASE INVOLVING DYSFUNTION OF AN ION CHANNEL. CHANNEL-OPATHIES ARE KNOWN TO INVOLVE THE ION CHANNELS FOR POTASSIUM, SODIUM, CHLORIDA AND CALCIUM.

ION CHANNELS ARE CRITICAL TO THE MEMBRANES SURROUNDING EVERY LIVING CELL.

BY THE WAY, THE BALDELLIS TELL ME ROCCO HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY THE RED SOX.

October hero Price to AAA:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/news/story?id=4016400

(where's yr new thread?)

^makes no sense "saving him for a playoff push" b/c you get more points later in the season huh?