Archive for January, 2012

Get a Deal Done Already

Posted by Mark On January - 24 - 2012 7 Comments
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I was just reading the latest turn in the Bucs’ coaching search in the morning paper.  Now, Chip Kelly is out (almost assuredly because the Glazers wouldn’t pony up the cash) and Buccaneer fans turn their lonely eyes back to…Mike Sherman?  Really? I have been a Bucs fan for a long time, and I will  [ Read More ]

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Comment of the Week: Time to get Excited

Posted by Mark On January - 21 - 2012 7 Comments
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Chris Glover swoops in and grabs a COW honor with his Jessie Spano impression.  After Travis broke the news of Carlos Pena’s return, Chris wrote: Travis, this comment just got me fired up for baseball again. With the mild distraction of football about to end I was wondering how I would pass the time here  [ Read More ]

Charlotte Sports Park

Bob & Jackie Washburn joined the conversation this week with a creative future use for Tropicana Field: Just a thought, but considering that Tropicana was originally built without having a team, why not use it for a Rays farm team, maybe just single A to start with, after the Rays move to a new stadium.  [ Read More ]

A Real Leader

Posted by Mark On January - 12 - 2012 5 Comments
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Just a few months after hearing everyone praise his leadership, Johnny Damon whined his way out of the clubhouse like my three-year-old daughter.  Isn’t baseball great?  You play average ball and then get to carp like a jilted lover at the first sign that you aren’t loved exactly as much as you demand to be  [ Read More ]

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An Honest Question to St. Pete Taxpayers

Posted by Mark On January - 9 - 2012 10 Comments
What else would you expect from a place formerly known as Thunderdome?

So, Bill Foster and Stu Sternberg are going to sit down and talk this week.  I have no idea what to expect but, I know exactly what to expect.  You know? Throughout this entire process I have always sort of felt bad for Bill Foster.  He is the Mayor of his hometown and is stuck  [ Read More ]

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Comment of the Week

Posted by Mark On January - 8 - 2012 2 Comments
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We’ve had some good discussion here this week without much serious participation from me.  I try to respond to most comments but, there are some comments that deserve a little deeper reflection.  So, I thought we’d try something new.  I will pick one comment each week and respond to it at length in its own  [ Read More ]

Rays Fans

Posted by Mark On January - 5 - 2012 5 Comments
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This interweb deal is pretty cool.  Thanks to this blog, I have had the opportunity to “meet” a huge number of Rays fans that I didn’t know existed.  Before I dove into this enterprise, I was a little skeptical that I could find like-minded fans.  At the time, I presumed the Rays fans in particular (and maybe  [ Read More ]

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shiningredrum

This is infuriating.  I haven’t posted much for several reasons.  Primarily, the drought has been prompted by the deafening silence coming out of Tropicana Field.  For a while, I was contemplating whether Bill Foster had shut off the electricity to the club’s office in a weird attempt at getting them to cave on the Stadium  [ Read More ]

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