Tampa Bay Rays? WTF ...

[doublethink]

I didn't even know Tampa Bay had a baseball team !!! Who ;) ..... kidding, congratulations Rays and Phillies. :toast: Now watch this video for Halloween .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoVmR9mcGN4

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. This long time Red Sox fan (since 67) congratulates the Rays - definitely the better team!

The Rays will give the Phillies quite a challenge - will be an entertaining World Series! (my prediction - Rays in 6!)

[Fearless]

11. Better team?

I'm going to have to call BS on that. Their manager shouldn't be allowed to coach tee-ball. The fact that the Sox didn't capitalize on a plethora of opportunities, from leaving the starter in in the 7th, to pulling him with one out in the 7th in favor of someone who has been shaken these last three games, to bullpen by committee to cobble out an eighth inning which only ended on a ball being called strike three, to any number of more amateur mistakes which will only be surpassed by the Phillies crushing them. Kudos to them, sure. But they were lucky. And luck runs out.

[Super62]

14. Show some class

Oh wait, Sox fan? Nevermind......

[Fearless]

17. Should we talk about the Dolphins next? How fickle.

[blue sky at night]

16. saw them mop up the floor with the deadsox in boston.....

back in september, AND I was just wondering which team won your division????? Oh its a long way back to boston tonight I am telling ya!!!!! go rays!!!!!go phillies, anyone except the deadsox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fearless]

19. Those with glass houses...

[blue sky at night]

21. na na na na na..................

theres always next year!!!! Ha, HA!!!!!

shit, I almost forgot....how bout those pats!!!!!

[Fearless]

23. Well for some teams there is.... others... not so much...

So which team do you like then?


Tell me... is it the Indians?

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. Better team than the crippled Sox - definitely! Look at those starters.

With Lowell out, Drew hobbled, etc - Sox in the playoffs are far from the team that started the season.

[tazkcmo]

2. Baseball?

They still have a league? Easy for me to forget as here in Kansas City we haven't had a team in years!

[doublethink]

5. Royals ..... oh yeah never mind.

:) ..... third baseman's name .... ummmm ... famous ... Bret? What's-his-name ... yeah back then.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. George Brett, Rush Limpball's bestest bud!

[doublethink]

32. Yuck ....... I didn't know that ..... n.t.

:puke:

[givemebackmycountry]

9. Yeah I know, Go Royals....

And I mean that.

This year we got to pull for the Rays.
The little team that could, and did.

They beat the Red Sox.
Not an easy accomplishment.

[remedy1]

3. Oh, Yeah....

We gotta TEAM!

Go Rays!!!!

Obama and the Rays!!! All the way!!!!

[doublethink]

10. If it gives Florida "Hope" ...... then okay .....

I'll root for the Rays !!! It better turn out that way for us (Obama) though. Yes We Can !! :thumbsup: And welcome to DU remedy1!

[Fearless]

24. But PA needs hope too!!!

:rofl:

[doublethink]

27. Look nothingtoofear .... you're an old-timer here on DU ....

with over 1000 posts ... I'm just trying to give our newbies some hope in here ..... especially down in Florida .... dammit you had to call me out on this. Okay I'll stay neutral on the world series till I see the gallop poll tomorrow. :hug: :rofl:

[Fearless]

28. OMFG!

Take it back! Take it back! OLDTIMER!!!! GAH!!!

IT BURNS!





:rofl:


Cheers!
NTF

PS... Takes one to know one. :evilgrin:

[remedy1]

30. Tomorrow...

I'll be at Legends Field to welcome our next President.

The Rays win...the Bucs win...and we will deliver Florida for Obama! Guaranteed.

Change is on the way. Can't you feel it?

[doublethink]

33. Feeling it !!! Okay I'm now rooting for the RAYs !!!! :)

Unless the Gallop poll tomorrow tells me to root for the Phillies. :)

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. Yeah, isn't it great?

Best story in baseball since the 69 Mets. From worst to first in the AL. Now, time to win it all.

[Fearless]

13. Gotta ask... who here remembers the 69 mets?

[doublethink]

20. Not fair ..... Dodger fan here ....... :( .... ask me something on them .....

would be like me asking you about Gibson's famous home run against the A's .... :)

[Fearless]

25. Awh... they did well too...

It would've been nice to see a Sox-Dodgers series. I'm sure it would have been electric... even with west coast time... yuck!

[doublethink]

35. ........ sigh ....... :( n.t.

[Dr.Phool]

34. I did.

Until my memory started going.

Go Browns.....And take the Indians with you.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Great game.......Sox were 'this close' in the 8th.

If Coco had slid for the bag instead of trying to take out Barret, the bases are loaded with 1 out. But credit due to TB...I'm happy for those guys....from last place to the Series in 1 year. :toast:

[doublethink]

36. After the Boston come back in the last game I really thought ...

the Rays would fold tonight. Hats off to them ... 1 game at a time, and tonights game was all that mattered. :toast: to both teams.

[frogcycle]

7. they are still the Devil Rays to me

silly wimpass team owner caved to some superstitious priests and now we have to have them freaking WINNING!

I am going to put the curse of the billy goat on them.

[Fearless]

22. Curse of the DEVIL ray?

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

12. Congrats!

:bounce:

[CatholicEdHead]

15. Good job Rays!

It would not have been possible without former Twins Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett

[alarimer]

26. I just love it when the underrated teams do well in baseball.

It's nice to have a World Series with these "smaller-market" teams in it. See, you don't need a brazillion-dollar payroll to win. Sometimes it does even help you win the division.

[pirate_satellite]

29. And a happy side effect...

of the Ray's superb effort against the Red Sox will surely be sub-par tv ratings and revenue for Fox during the World Series, now featuring two smaller-market teams. So, good job!

[doublethink]

37. Wisdom ..... from a new DU member .....

:toast: and welcome to DU pirate_satellite.

[tuckessee]

31. How about that rookie pitcher David Price!

His first year in pro ball and he has pitched the final outs of the Rays two biggest games in their history.

He had only pitched in 5 games and 14 innings in The Bigs before the post season. The kid must have nerves of steel.

When he was in college at Vanderbilt he got shellacked a few times and figured he was a bust so he left school to go work at a McDonalds in his hometown but the coach came and talked him into rejoining the team.
Rays fans (and Bosox haters) owe that coach a big "thanks".

[doublethink]

40. Wow quite a story ..... sure that will make the headlines.

Didn't know that about the kid ..... good for him, If he is the kid that closed tonights game .... he looked like the 'Terminator' .... cudos.

[notalemming]

38. I bought tickets & went to Bucs games for 20 years hoping for success

then I moved away from Tampa and they won the Super Bowl. Now I'm supporting Obama...........
glurk

[doublethink]

39. If I was a betting man I'd put money on the Rays in the series.

Doesn't mean I'd root for them ... but I think they fought off quite a team in Boston ... better than my Dodgers that the Phillies beat. Anyway welcome to DU too notaleming ... intriguing series coming up. Peace. :hi: