www2.tbo.com - 7/1/2008
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HENDERSON Published: July 1, 2008 Updated: S T. PETERSBURG - You would expect the team with the best record in baseball to run a superstar out there at most every position. The best team is supposed to have players who are household names, players with lordly status. If not that, at least they are supposed to have players people across this great land have actually heard of. Then there are the ...
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Tampa Ascendant
Sportsfrog.com —
5-4 win over Boston last night in what felt like a, ah, rivalry game.
50-32 record. Best in baseball.
1 1/2 game lead on the AL East. Unless you are a Red Sox or Yankees fan, pretty much impossible not to be pulling for them.
Thou shalt not kill the rally
The Soxaholix —
... Yeah, well, it's time to wake up — for the moment at least, the Rays are the real deal. ...
Baseball Today: Tuesday, July 1
Projo Sox Blog —
... -- the first-place team with (for once) a partisan home crowd behind them and the second-place team with the young starting pitcher [Justin Masterson] who too often couldn't throw the ball over the plate. The Tampa Tribune's Joe Henderson isn't sure the analogy holds all the way, since he doesn't know if the Rays match the Sox in star power, but for now the "no-names" -- his words, not mine -- are getting it done. And the folks in central Florida, used to being visitors in their own dome whenever the Sox come to town, ...
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The Tampa Bay Rays don't need to brawl to prove they are no longer pushovers. Avoiding a repeat of their benches-clearing skirmish June 5, the Rays and Red Sox squared off Monday night as the top two teams in the AL East. The surprising Rays held on ...
