sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/9/2008
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It wasn't difficult to discern that last Thursday and Friday's playoff games were the first ever held in Tampa Bay. The ticket scalpers, blessed with only the 24th and 25th sellouts of this unprecedented Rays season, were unsophisticated: A retirement-age couple, wearing matching pleated khaki ...
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Evan Longoria is Baseball Jesus
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Evan Longoria is Baseball Jesus Even so, Longoria knows that the Rays will need not just fearlessness but consistent production out of his cleanup spot if they are to dethrone the Red Sox, against whom he hit .245 with one homer in 49 regular-season at-bats, in the ALCS. “When I get the ones I need to hit, I gotta hit ‘em,” he said in the victorious visitors’ clubhouse at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular field on Monday night, as the rest of the Rays bathed each other in champagne. “I need to make the plays on defense and do everything right to help the club win.” His teammates have ...
Baseball Today: Friday, October 10
Projo Sox Blog —
... at Michigan State proves that 9 really does equal 8 (yahoo.com) . . . which is what Joe Maddon has been saying all year.
THE DEVIL YOU SAY: David Chalk of Bugs & Cranks is heartened by Joe Biden's decision -- some call it a gaffe, but David thinks otherwise -- "to refer to our beloved Tampa Bay Devil Rays by their true full name."
DO YOU THINK YOU'RE WHAT THEY SAY YOU ARE? B.J. Upton calls Evan Longoria "Jesus in cleats." (SI.com)
THE GOOD OLD DAYS: Chad Finn picks is all-time ...
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Major League Baseball News 10/9/2008
Seldom in sports have roles been as well defined as for the battle for AL supremacy, which kicks off here Friday night at 8:37 ET, between leading righties Daisuke Matsuzaka of the Red Sox and James Shields of the Rays.
