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The Trop was rockin', and the fans were obnoxious
The Trop was rockin', and the fans were obnoxious
When the Rays took the lead in the seventh, the scene was pure chaos So I've been posting my game previews and recaps over at Bugs and Cranks for a few days now, but like I said I'm still gonna produce material here as well, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to tell everyone about my night at Tropicana Field for the series finale of the Rays and Red Sox . It was pure hell. As you ...
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Devil Rays Fan Of The Week
Bugs & Cranks — ... Bryce is 9 years old, and came out to support our beloved Devil Rays as they won their seventh straight game on Sunday. Particularly awesome is that Bryce has the old school Devil Rays logo tattooed on his forehead — that’s the metal look of the true Devil Ray fan. You would think that everyone everywhere could appreciate Bryce’s awesomeness, but new B&C Red Sox writer Jeff “J Rose” Rosenfield wrote this over on Curt’s Bloody Sock: [There's] a new era for Devil ...

Baseball Today: Monday, July 7
Projo Sox Blog — ... . (Bugs and Cranks) The blog Curt's Bloody Sock may not think it's such a good idea to increase the number of Rays fans in one place, since he finds them -- or at least the ones he encountered during last week's Rays-Red Sox series -- to be "pompous, spoiled, arrogant" . . . and another word I can't use here. (Beware the NSFW tinge to the post.) Bugs and Cranks may have supported his point by describing the Blue Jays, the opponent in the get-free-gas game, as "perennial losers/cellar dwellers." ...

Struggling Yanks Use Gimmicks, Meat To Lure Fans
Bugs & Cranks — ... Mr. Martone quoted my good buddy J Rose’s sour grapes description of Devil Rays fans to insinuate that I was “pompous, spoiled, arrogant.” ...

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