Congratulations Tampa Bay Rays and all Rays Fans!!!

[artiesliver]

Congratulations Tampa Bay Rays and all Rays fans (B'man, et al).

arty:ope:arty:


I doubted this team all season, thinking they would flop and go down and out for the count. But they kept plugging away....great job.


And to boot, you beat the Red Sox!!!:tongue2::missingte:missingte:missingte:tongue2:

 

[WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]

:cripwalk::cripwalk:ope:

 

[BC-Eagles]

There are so few Rays fans out there. I'm so sick of seeing brand new rays jerseys and hats around the city..

 

[Rude]

Anyway know what TB was at the start of the year to;

1 - Reach World Series ?
2 - Win Wold Seriens ?

Congratz Tampa backers ... Nice to see the "small market/small payroll/no national media attention" little guys win one!

 

[bodyforlife]

And congratulations to people that just hate Boston teams and their obnoxious fans!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rude]

P.S. Ugly F'in American League Champs T-Shirts!

C'mon man ... You can do better than that!hno:

 

[5-0SAT]

go rays, fuck boston arty:

 

[artiesliver]

Maddon, Friedman, Silverman & Sternberg---Is this a baseball team or an accounting firm???

 

[barman]

Anyway know what TB was at the start of the year to;

1 - Reach World Series ?
2 - Win Wold Seriens ?

Congratz Tampa backers ... Nice to see the "small market/small payroll/no national media attention" little guys win one!

First week of April, Rays were +6000 for AL and +12000 for WS

Second week of May they had dropped to +4000 and +8000 and it just kept sliding down after that

 

[barman]

Maddon, Friedman, Silverman & Sternberg---Is this a baseball team or an accounting firm???

heh...Kidding aside, Sternberg is in fact (and has been) building this team from a Wall Street mindset.

And I think a key component will be a commitment that no one player will tie up more than 5 to 8% of team payroll.

Team is certainly set up for the next three to four years with this core and if the Rays management takes advantage of this window to aggressively stock the minors with more arms, they could put on a run akin to the Atlanta Braves and steadily compete for 10-15 years.

 

[artiesliver]

Doesn't bode well for the Yanks, does it? Congrats again.