luke scott and the questionable promotions - your 2012 rays thread

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

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::shudders:: @ the thought of looking @ plush zimm all summer

desmond jennings jacked three today

guess he's okay after that collision a few weeks ago

the legendary sam fuld is out 4-5 months with a wrist (injury)

maddon keeps the squeeze on w/ 1 out & 2 strikes w/ tying run @ third w/ jose molina up after they tried it a first time & molina missed the sign and swung away & fouled a pitch off

Would bet that Rodney has the highest strikes-called-balls rate of the last several years.

zobrist

RIP Sandman

welcome back, carlos amirite

carlos pena is a folk hero

against a right-hander, with two strikes, two outs and nobody on in the seventh, carlos pena just bunted foul for a strikeout

happy 25th birthday, jeremy hellickson

Why oh why is Jeff Keppinger hitting cleanup AGAIN

wtf is on luke scotts face

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It's crazy that Luke Scott's facial hair isn't even in the top five things wrong with him.

a) hideki matsui

b) 2007 #1 overall pick tim beckham (now in triple-a) suspended 50 games for 'drug of abuse'

c) Longoria out 4-6 weeks

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#Rays say Longoria has partial tear of left hamstring. Out 6-8 weeks.

13-1 at home

need .gif of joyce homering top 9 vs nyy & falling down as he does it

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Matt Joyce's Twitter handle is @sweetswingin20.

Outfielder Sam Fuld will be joining Rays broadcasters Dewayne Staats and Brian Anderson in the booth for the finale of Tampa Bay's Interleague series with Atlanta. Fuld will primarily provide sabermetric analysis throughout the game.

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DOOM!

Fernandoom

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#Rays lineup: Pena 1b, Upton cf, Joyce lf, Zobrist rf, Scott dh, S-Rod 3b, Sutton 2b, Gimenez c, Johnson ss, Moore p

maddon pushin all the rt buttons

@TBTimes_Rays #Rays estimate Pena homer at 452 feet
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so he hit that because he's batting first?! i still don't get the logic.

there is no logic

i see.

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no logic

plz explain for those of us who came in late

Tired of the Red Sox cutting off the PA system music during their batting practice, as they have the last few years for all teams, the Rays came up with a creative solution Saturday.

CF B.J. Upton brought out a boombox, they set it up near the batting cage and ran an extension cord from the dugout, for an instant soundtrack. About halfway through the session, the PA system came back on with some music best described as “pop organ.”

The Rays, it should be noted, have started giving the Sox the silent treatment at Tropicana Field.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/rays/content/music-issue-too-rays-red-sox

team is a screengrabbers paradise

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maddon is so absurd

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"Good for them," Peralta said. "They still lose the game."

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FACT: When Chris Archer makes his @MLB debut today, he'll end a streak of 232 straight games of the #Rays starting a pitcher they drafted.

"I thought he was a weird wuss anyway" -- Davey Johnson on Maddon

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The Rays are holding "Turn Back the Clock" night on June 30. Though the team began play in 1998, they will wear this amazing "hypothetical" uniform, modeled above by manager Joe Maddon, from 1979.

that is amazing. aside from the "r" in rays, i love everything about it!

Holy crap that uniform. Awesomely ugly.

If Maddon wants to "read between the lines," he should join a book club in the off-season. I'm with Davey on this one.

was just about to post this.. my eyes. the googles. they do nothing.

love. it.

want to meet the "hypothetical" designer, with a sock o' manure

this is sort of wtf:
"It's kind of a common practice that people have done this for years..."
(that's in regards to the tar-in-glove)

is it seriously a common thing?!

The little yellow daisy inside the A is my favorite part.

I believe those are just the rays of a trippy hallucinogenic sun

that's what i figured.

It will always be a pretty flower to me.

is it seriously a common thing?!

the way pirates color guy/former pitcher bob walk was talking last night, very very much so

huh.

ASTERISKS FOR ALL!

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FACT: When Chris Archer makes his @MLB debut today, he'll end a streak of 232 straight games of the #Rays starting a pitcher they drafted.
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luke scott is 0-for his last 37 and counting

i'd blame john roberts, but it predates that

Lobaton? is that an android?

Rodney not good for the heart.

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Meant to post this over the weekend:

Los Angeles Angels' Rally Monkey had to hide this weekend when Fernando Rodney and the Tampa Bay Rays came to town.

For the second consecutive day, Tampa Bay Rays closer Fernando Rodney took aim at the monkey after the game with his signature post-game bow-and-arrow gesture.

"Last night, I saw the son and shoot him and he gone," Rodney said. "Today the father come. I said, 'I don't want no problem.' I had an arrow behind me and I shoot it."

12 Seattle 435
13 Tampa Bay 434
14 Oakland 430

3 back!

a modest proposal

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Citing 151,000 Facebook likes as reasonable evidence that the city would support a team? Come the fuck on, Caple.

well, I think the fact that the Expos drew when they were competitive is the salient point.

i don't understand why montreal doesn't have a(n affiliated) minor league team

just bad mutual blood w/ MLB?

i dunno. part of it is probably a stadium issue, as playing in the big o would be absurd. more to the point, i'm surprised that the blue jays don't do something about it, as they're actually quite cognizant of being the nation's team. but i guess they're gonna move their triple-a team to buffalo next year, possibly leaving the mets stuck with las vegas.

tbh, brooklyn should have a full-season team too -- the cyclones outdraw all but a handful of double-a teams -- but i guess the mets don't want the competition.

i fuck w/ this hat

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damn, another thriller

I think a big part of mtl not having a a/aa/aaa team is just that they haven't bothered moving one from somewhere else. that and the stadium thing. they're talknig about (wtf this is insane) building a ~12000 stadium in griffintown (crazy genrtif zone) for a (lol what) canadian baseball league team. but it won't be expandable aka it could never hold an mlb team. MAKES NO SENSE.

i wish ball would come back here and i DO really think that if it was handled RIGHT (aka the politicians didn't make its location a partisan issue, etc) mtl could totally support a team. hell i'd go to a bunch more games, i already schlep to toronto to watch games and next year intend to go to a few vermont lake monsters games (every time my friends drove there this year i was otherwise engaged).

NINE Rays pitchers today! How many are they carrying?

archer looks real good out there right now, & that he could go for a while

real good but cant throw to 1st from 12 ft away

might get out of bases loaded 0-out

Wow

p impressive

that was huge

McLouth doesn't strike twice in the same place.

Marc Topkin ‏@TBTimes_Rays
Here's a mind-boggling #Rays number for you: Saturday was the 29th game they've entered the 5th inning with 1 or no hits. They're 8-21

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Our rookie hazing took a different twist tonight at Fenway. It was tremendous. A James Shields production.

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9th inn'g longo hr, 8 straight wins, will almost certainly vault det into winning the central if they keep this up

Zobrist does not get enough respect

<3

just gonna help NYY in the end

yeah that is a bitter herb

Neyer:

Tuesday night against the Rays, Tampa Bay's James "Big Game" Shields set a franchise record with 15 strikeouts, and finished with a 94 Game Score. He also lost, 1-0. Highest Game Scores in a nine-inning loss since 1918:

1. James Shields - 94 (2012)
2. Ken Johnson - 92 (1964)
3. Kevin Appier - 91 (1993)
4. Bob Sebra - 90 (1987)

Ice Station Sebra

Give him the Gold Glove already.

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