Go Rays!

I've been on The Rays Bandwagon too! And for good reason!

If it weren't for my Red Sox, I'd be rooting hard for the DEVIL Rays. Very good team with some great young talent.

I'm definitely with you gloveman. The average age on the Rays is like 26, that's so young!

All Sox fans should be on the bandwagon.

The Rays beat us.

The Dodgers smoked the cubs.

Red Sox fans have inexplicably alligned themselves with boystown.

Sooooo.....if our conquerer wins the AL over Boston and then beats the NL champ that beat the Dodgers that smoked the cubs...we will have a firm hand on Chicago bragging rights...as usual.

Ya gotta love how a college drop-out from Brooklyn can install 2 Wall-Street sub 30 wiz-kids and turn a consistent last place team into an World Championship contender in less than 3 years.

I was for them just after they turned the lights out on the SOX.

Nothin’ like an options trader to recognize relative values.

Go RAYS

Don't agree with Soxhole's usual nonsense (Get over it, no Chicago team has any bragging rights this year) but I'm with you Glove, the Rays are amazing. Go Rays!

Who the heck doesnt guard against a double up one run with 4 outs to go. The managers style may have gotten them there, but it cost them. . . . and dearly. You cant give the Carmines an extra life!!!!!!!!

Soxnole, I think you've finally lost your mind. Bragging rights???? What are you talking about? Do you think even for one moment that Cub fans cared who advanced after they were eliminated? Dodgers, Phils, what's the difference? Only winners brag, not losers.

FBD, you thinking about heading south?

I really like Boston.

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Originally posted by Tuzigoot:
I really like Boston.

I knew I liked you Tuzi!

Rosy, I will probably end up down south at least part time. Looking right now.

I was on The Rays Bandwagon and am still very impressed with the fact that they are loaded with drafted players. The success of their drafting is unbelievable.

However it would be pretty cool for The Red Sox to show Manny (and others of his ilk) that they don't need him to win. It's always good when the ill-willed and troublecausers leave and the team does well without them. The same goes for the teams that pick up these malcontents....you hate them to do well by it.

The Red Sox gave it a good run but the DEVIL Rays are better this year...and healthier.

Good luck DEVIL Rays!

rosy....and JKennedy too.

The fact that both of you responded....and the way that you did respond speaks volumes.

Facts are facts.

Your boystown wonders were overated from the start.

Congrats to Coach Tim Bogar (Illinois native) and the Rays!

They said last night that Ben Zobrist was born in Eureka, IL. Did he play HS in Eureka? I'd like to know more about him.

Rosy...maybe a must win for The Phils, but they got it. I think they will score at home, they have done it all year long, built for their park.

Could be along series, but if The Phils manage to win another in Tampa it will be over. Game 2 definitely a must win for the Rays.

Big question will be if Moyer can help at all in this series.

The only friend the Phils have is the weatherman!

AL domination is inevitable unless rain gives Hamel 3 starts in the series.

Manuel makes a better hitting instructor than manager. He is easily trumped by Maddon.

Man, strange call the other night with Baldelli at bat. My grandma could have called that strikeout sitting in a rocking chair behind the plate, chewing on a chicken wing. She wouldn't even be wearing gear, tough old broad. That was a big call.

Sorry Soxnole, I like the youngsters from Tampa but I'm rooting for Jamie Moyer on Saturday. I love this guy.

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Originally posted by biggerpapi:
They said last night that Ben Zobrist was born in Eureka, IL. Did he play HS in Eureka? I'd like to know more...

What can I say papi?

Except for the Rocky Mountains parallel parked out there on Iowa, everything in this picture of Eureka is true.

EUReKA...Something special in the air!

Nice job by Mister Moyer last night, FUN to watch to watch him pick apart screwed down major league hitters. He's a cool customer. Takes a lot of cubes to stand up there and throw wiffle balls at these guys.

Werth picked at second with the second baseman covering the bag? Youch...portrait of a guy feeling crispy dry after that bumble. Bruntlett with some heads up base running to go to third.

Some sloppy play on both ends but all in all pretty fun game to watch.

I also enjoyed Moyer's outting. Nice to see a guy pitch and not just rear back and let it go. I don't think he broke 84mph last night.

Soxnole, series is now over. Phils win 3-1. Don't blame the umps,who were horrible, the better team won. According to your theory, Cub fans are supposed to have some kind of bragging rights. Sorry, I still don't think we've got anything to brag about.

Happy Thanksgiving and see ya down the road.

rosy,

I believe that was a 4-1 series. cub math I guess!

The better football weather team won, I'll give you that.

The umps were horid and like the Hawk say's ad nauseum "until they use the best umpire's for the most important games, it aint gonna change"

The Phillies were good in the frozen clutch and the Rays seemed to be just happy to be there.

Maddon proved to be wrong repeatedly in the post season with his pitching decisions.

You are spot on with cub bragging rights....those effectively were running on empty ever since their exit from Comiskey.

The Rays beat the Sox and then went to the series.

The cubs got drilled by the .500 dodgers who got drilled by the Phils.

I doubt you could even find a cub fan that thinks the cubs accomplished more than the Sox!

You need some help. Call me and I'll recommend someone. LOL

The better football won? What a silly statement. The Phillies won game 1 indoors in Tampa and won game 4 easily 10-2 in decent weather. The Phillies were simply the better team. The Yankees run ended in 2000 and since then the last eight World Series are now even; National League 4 championships and the American League 4 championships. P.S. The only one that cries about bad calls and the umpires is the Hawk.