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Where My Team Stands: Tampa Bay Rays [World Series]
deadspin.com - 10/21/2008
Where My Team Stands: Tampa Bay Rays [World Series]
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Cork Gaines is the editor and lead writer for Rays Index . He is a Tampa native and University of Iowa graduate that is currently lost in New York City. Despite this, he still maintains his status as a Tampa Bay Buccaneers season ticket holder and often makes trips back to the Bay Area just ...
The Rays’ Success Is Bad For Baseball
rumorsandrants.com - 10/22/2008
The Rays’ Success Is Bad For Baseball
— rumorsandrants.com — To put it into ultra-simplistic terms, our economy is screwed because people have been spending too much... money. People were given home loans they could not possibly pay back, thus killing several lending giants. A few years ago, it was the first ... (more) The Rays’ Success Is Bad For Baseball

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Phillies-Rays A Ratings Killer, But Shouldn't Be
sharapovasthigh.blogspot.com - 10/22/2008
Phillies-Rays A Ratings Killer, But Shouldn't Be
— sharapovasthigh.blogspot.com — Article about how the Phillies-Rays World Series will get awful ratings, but there's plenty of reasons why... it shouldn't. Should be a great series to watch. (more) Phillies-Rays A Ratings Killer, But Shouldn't Be

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Rays Index:  [HAPPY HOUR] Twenty, Twenty, Twenty-Four Hours To Go-O-O

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[HAPPY HOUR] Twenty, Twenty, Twenty-Four Hours To Go-O-O
Rays Index — ... "Rays Index binging on caffeine" is back. This time we were asked by Deadspin "What the World Series means to us." [Deadspin] ...

[MAILBAG] A Letter From Another Satisfied Reader
Rays Index — ... asked us if we would write a post for their site explaining what the World Series means to us. We received numerous emails and comments either thanking or congratulating us (thanks to everybody for the kind words). Our favorite was easily this one from a writer that goes by the handle "Reasonable Doubt" from ...

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