The Tampa Bay Rays have gotten cocky
homerderby.com 10/10/2008 — The Tampa Bay Rays have a new T-Shirt out ... proclaiming the fall of the Red Sox. Don't count your pennants before they fly.

Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays Betting Odds and Stats
bsn-blog.blogspot.com 10/10/2008 — Two teams that know each other very well meet in the American League Championship Series. Boston and Tampa Bay met 18 times this season and the Rays won 10 while the Red Sox won 8. Game 1 of the ALCS is on Friday and matches Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka against Tampa Bay’s James Shields.

ALCS Preview: Boston Red Sox vs Tampa Bay Rays
beyondtheboxscore.com 10/10/2008 — The Rays and Red Sox are the two best team in baseball. Yes, the Angels won 100 games, and John Lackey thinks they were the better team. They weren’t. Yes, it’s very possible that the Phillies or Dodgers will win the World Series, but ...

ALCS Game 1: Dice-K loves Domes...
thebottomlinenation.blogspot.com 10/10/2008 — Matsuzaka grew up pitching in domes filled with crazy Japanese baseball fans... you think a few cowbells and low-hanging catwalks are gonna scare him?

Key factors of the Sox/Rays ALCS
mvn.com 10/10/2008 — Tomorrow, the series to decide the 2008 A.L. Champion will commence. In one corner will be the former whipping boys of fate, now the most successful baseball franchise of the last five years. In the other corner will be a team experiencing the ...

Rays ready for ALCS ... and rivalry with Red Sox — Boston.com -- Baseball News 10/10/2008
The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays insist they plan to take each other on with bats, not fists.

5 keys to Friday's LCS games — FOXSports.com News for MLB 10/10/2008
If the Rays are to begin the ALCS in style, starter James Shields can't let his emotions get the best of him, Aram Tolegian says.

BP: Breaking down Rays-Red Sox — SI.com - MLB 10/10/2008
It had to come to this, the league's two best teams from the league's strongest division. The Rays as a representation of all that can be right about an organization on the way up, the Red Sox as a representation of all that can be right about an ...

Fireside Chats No.25: Where we preview the ALCS with Tommy Rancel of OPS — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/10/2008
Boston Red Sox podcast for MVN Radio Episode 25 where we preview the ALCS vs. the Tampa Bay Rays with Tommy Rancel of MVN’s Outs Per Swing . Episode No.25 Hosts: Paul Testa, Tim Daloisio Guests: Tommy Rancel, MVN’s Rays coverage  ...

ALCS: Matsuzaka Carries a No-Hitter Into Seventh Inning to Lift Red Sox — Wash Post MLB 10/11/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 10 -- By midway through the first inning, they must have been running through complex bullpen scenarios on the Boston Red Sox' bench, so awful was the start to Daisuke Matsuzaka's night, so tenuous were his chances of ...