Manny and the Caveman: Your 2011 Tampa Bay Rays

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Should be fun!

so weird.

i hear kevin millar's available.

Manny being here today early than expected makes a statement. I loved it. I like the buzz.
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RaysJoeMaddon
Joe Maddon

yeah he'll love it in july when mannys dogging it

i sense a touch of bitterness on the ilx! yowzerz

DAVIDprice14 David Price
You are a female correct??RT @factsuwant2kno: @DAVIDprice14 retweet me! Canada loves u!.. or jus me atleast sugar lips

Has anyone read Jonah Keri's book about the Rays? (has this been discussed on another thread?)

Yeah, I'm reading it now. Some of the Naimoli anecdotes are awesome:

Naimoli's Internet boycott continued for several more years. As late as 2003, if a Devil Rays employee wanted to sell group tickets or negotiate sponsorships, he had to buy private Internet access and send emails from DevilRaysDud✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧.

...

The Devil Rays owner initially planned to name the upscale watching area behind home plate at the Trop the Clearwater Mattress Club. Aides talked him out of that name, convincing Naimoli that a local mattress chain was not an appropriate title sponsor for the team's elite seating area. The Devil Rays came up with a marginal upgrade, secured sponsorship from Kane's Furniture, and called the area the Kane's Club. Ticket-holders took an elevator down to their exclusive seat. When the doors opened, they revealed...couches. Yes, for the thousands of dollars you had to pay for the best seat in the house, your reward was a pitch from a furniture salesman in a cheap suit who thought you might be interested in a sofa.

...

The coup de grace was Naimoli's "personal and confidential" letter to Hillsborough County, in which he complained that a "pesky raccoon" was intimidating his wife and daughter at their sprawling estate.

DevilRaysDude99 at aol dot com, that is. DevilRaysDude99!!

Longoria said AK-47 rifle stolen from spring house was a "personal item," declined to discuss further.

you don't say...

that is some good heckling fodder right there.

i'm sure there are more photos of longo's dick on his ipad -- robber should ransom them imo

*more* pics?! have i missed something?

are you thinking of gr8080 sizemore? dont recall that.

the story: http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/hey-evan-longoria-stop-sending-me-pictures-of-your-cock-sincerely-jenna/

the photo: http://boston.barstoolsports.com/evan-longoria-texts-jenna-his-cock/

lets see how many runs they can score while longoria's on the DL

those book excerpts are amazing!

DAVIDprice14
....pulled up in the drop top Benz hit the horn two times and you walked outside.....

this team has 7 runs & 21 hits in 5 games

what odds would yall take that they finish below the orioles this year? 3-1? 5-1? 8-1?

they might be 10 games under when longo comes back

RaysJoeMaddon

Cold and foggy in Chicago. I am going Elmer (Fudd) with the headgear for their opener today.
about 2 minutes ago

update: 8 runs/27 hits (bossman jr has 8 of the hits) in 6 games; also 52 strikeouts

maybe longo's WAR will be 15 this year

in fairness, jackson's slider looked absolutely filthy today.

god bless you, extra innings free preview.

wow their lineup is kind of amazingly bad!

it's kind of unfathomable really

the dual signings of manny & damon really should've tipped us off

i know this is what i get for not paying attention.

If you were to add Manny's OPs to Damon's it would = .310

OPS mind you.

the team's splits so far this year: .136/.218/.260

their starting line up today has a combined OPS+ of 31

the story: http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/hey-evan-longoria-stop-sending-me-pictures-of-your-cock-sincerely-jenna/

the photo: http://boston.barstoolsports.com/evan-longoria-texts-jenna-his-cock/

― wavy g. wavegarten (J0rdan S.), Monday, March 28, 2011 5:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

how did i miss this... this was a year ago? that was hilarious. He spotted my facebook account via internet stalking and started talking to me, probably in hopes that when he visited the Cape he would have a girl ready to cram meats with and lick his asshole and shit like that. Well clearly he knows how to get me all hot and bothered because he sent me a picture of his ultra white glow in the dark dick.

GUHHH http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/04/manny-ramirez-retires.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6310125

weed or roids?

how bout a lil bit of both?

RIP

manny is all http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=975115&t=o

100 game suspension!

[MOD EDIT] and the Caveman

he's like the lj of mlb.

well well

:-(

hey at least they've got like 10 first round picks in the draft this year

sam fuld is killin it

who the frig is this guy?!

should've stopped on first for the cycle with a shit-eating grin imo

Hope the Rays can do it here--I'm going to have to bail otherwise.

lol at proctor

Oh boy!

scott proctor at 44 pitches

ugh

damnit

lol

uh oh

Now where can I get a TV feed of this in NY?

all u need 2 do is solve the riddle that is scott proctor

all right if the rays can't beat scott proctor after 50 pitches then fuck em

WALKOFF LOL OMG

Spectacular. Speechless.

best march madness ever

HOLY SHIT

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

this has to be one of the best nights to ever see live on TV (thanks MLB Network). sure i was more happy when the Giants won everything last year but my head is blown tonight.

If you mean any shitty baseball movie, yeah

xxp

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mlb network guy "there will be a movie made of wildcard wednesday"

Mosaic madness!

rematch of alds rays v rangs

A+++ night, thanks you guys for staying up and hanging out.

I can't think of anything I've ever seen like the last 20 minutes. Just sorry I never caught any of the Braves game.

out last year of nail biting wild card fites!

thank you Bud Selig for not having 2 wild cards

btw seriously lolling at all the Rays fans who left in the 8th, you guys missed the most epic comeback of all time

"all the Rays fans"

http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2011-09-28&team=Rays&dh=0&season=2011

congratulation, Manuel "Manny" Arístides Ramírez Onelcida

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he looks high

Dan Johnson just saved the Tampa Bay Rays season. This Dan Johnson.

Before tonight, he had a -7 wRC+. As noted in that leaderboard, the only Major Leaguer with a worse offensive season in at least 90 PA was Roy Halladay,

I showed my class all the Tampa Bay/Boston highlights this morning, trying to create some sense of the timeline (a split-screen would have come in handy). Baseball hardly exists for Canadian kids ever since the Jays stopped winning, but, thanks to my expert narration, they seemed to understand the improbability of all that happened.

sportscenter did a great dual highlight timeline thingy last night

When they turn it into a movie, either De Palma or a resurrected Abel Gance gets the assignment.

I can't even remember for sure which game ended first now, tho I suspect it was Boston's

it was

Price has to be a little rattled from that start/Teix's salami. Hope he can pull it together.

yeah they need him 2 be solid

take cliff lee out of the equation & tb beats tx last yr p handily

i'm sure he'll be fine -- pitchers have bad starts sometimes

I can't even remember for sure which game ended first now, tho I suspect it was Boston's

Yeah, Longoria gave Boston just enough time to walk into the clubhouse and watch their season end

I'll be rooting hard for the Rays for as long as they last. Coming back like they did last night was just tremendous. They caught a break in not having to face Rivera, but it still required some mysterious combination of luck, karma, divine intervention, character (old-fashioned, I know--I have to believe there's some of that in there somewhere), and god only knows what else. It would be so great to see them knock out the Yankees in a divisional final after Girardi's decision not to use Rivera (which I totally understand).

I think the gap between Andino and Longoria was three or four minutes. (I'm not sure, but one may have even been just before midnight and the other just after.)

Verducci has an exact timeline up--not quite right:

12:02: Robert Andino wins the game for Baltimore with a single. The Red Sox, as it turns out, have three minutes to live.

12:05: Longoria hits a home run off Scott Proctor to win the game for Tampa Bay.

From FanGraphs:
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wow

Seriously, there will almost certainly not be anything like this for a long time

Not just the Boston collapse or the insane way yesterday shook out, but even Carl Crawford's tragic involvement in everything is just ridiculous and too weird to believe

did Crawford end the season with an obp over .300?

nein

lolwow

dianagram (NYC): Matt Moore .... best pitching prospect to hit the majors since __________. (Prior? Wood? Verlander? other?)

Jason Parks: Kershaw

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rewatched the 2011 yankees-rays game 162 yesterday, so satisfying