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mopupduty.com - 11/12/2008

Jesse Litsch to Tampa Bay Rays?

— mopupduty.com — Check out the photo... Jesse Litsch, Tampa, and the 2009 season... (more) Jesse Litsch to Tampa Bay Rays?

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tampabay.com - 11/14/2008

Do the Rays have a future in bay area? - St. Petersburg Times

— tampabay.com — The 2009 season will be key to determining whether the Rays can turn short-term excitement into the... long-term support needed to keep the team in St. Petersburg. (more) Do the Rays have a future in bay area? - St. Petersburg ...

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examiner.com - 11/20/2008

Tampa Bay Rays rumor mill

— examiner.com — With the Hot Stove League in full swing, it is now time to address some of the... November rumors surrounding the Rays. Andrew Friedman, like any good G.M., will listen to all offers and is in a very good position because the Rays don’t need to adjust their roster very much to contend again in 2009. (more) Tampa Bay Rays rumor mill

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[THE HANGOVER] Longoria Living The Life In SoCal
Rays Index — ... Joe Smith has a response from the Cleveland writer that gave the lone first place vote to somebody other than Joe Maddon. [The Heater] ...

Terry Pluto achieves fame and immortality--by denying Joe Maddon a #1 vote.
XM MLB Chat — ... (St. Petersburgh Times): "Terry Pluto, a veteran columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has gone through pretty much everything in his 30-plus years in journalism, from winning awards to writing more than a dozen books.... Pluto was the voter who kept Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon from being the first unanimous Manager of the Year Award recipient in baseball history. Maddon received 27 of 28 first place votes, with the Minnesota Twins' Ron ...

Terry Pluto defends voting Joe Maddon No. 2 for AL Manager of the Year
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — Terry Pluto defends voting Joe Maddon No. 2 for AL Manager of the Year Planet X’s wrong box? Pluto voted Gardenhire No. 1 and Maddon No. 2, and joked he now has “many fans in Tampa” after getting more than 20 emails from puzzled Rays fans. But here’s Pluto’s explanation: Gardenhire’s Twins didn’t make the playoffs (they lost in one-game playoff with the White Sox for the AL Central title), but voting was done in the final week of the regular season. Pluto said he has absolutely nothing against Maddon, whom he has a lot of respect for. It was just a tough decision at the ...

Friday Filberts
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — ... . •Is there this much outrage about the award voting every year? I suppose a lot of it's because many voters actually write about voting; I don't believe this happened much until fairly recently. Anyway, Terry Pluto's taking some heat for being the Manager of the Year voter who kept Joe Maddon from winning unamimously, and Pluto's not shy about it . Look, by the historical standards of the award, Maddon should have been the unanimous winner. I would have voted for him. But don't you think if you had every single piece of information about the jobs that Maddon and Gardenhire ...

AL MOY Voter Pluto: “I May Be A Moron”
Bugs & Cranks — ... Saturday I found the identity of the one voter who kept Joe Maddon from being the unanimous AL Manager Of The Year had been revealed on tampabay.com — it was Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Terry Pluto. ...