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Tampa Bay looks over-matched, the Phillies are rolling, and I just don’t see a whole lot of reason right now for the Rays to be optimistic.
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Pick up a phone, find Terry Francona’s number and put it on speed-dial. For the duration of this less then exciting World Series, the Rays should keep [...]

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Brad Lidge is once again lights out as the Phillies survive the Rays 3-2 in game one
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The Rays may be the comeback kids, but Brad Lidge is a totally different animal.
Lidge came out in the ninth, completely shut down Tampa Bay’s potent offense, and the Phillies walked out of game one with a [...]

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Relive the final two and a half innings from a sports blogger’s point of view from an epic game seven
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Okay, so they’re not going to Disneyworld. Well, not yet at least, but Tampa Bay is going to the World Series after holding off the pesky World Champion Red Sox in a thrilling [...]

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The party’s not over yet for Tampa Bay’s improbable, unbelievable rise from worst to first in the American League
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Contact Disney, start sending them the scripts. This is officially a Hollywood story.
The Tampa Bay Rays knocked out the champs, and now they’re four wins away from being the champs.
Ten years of futility? [...]

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Just what in the world does a team have to do to dispatch these pesky Red Sox?
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The thrill of victory. The agony of blowing a seven run lead. Tampa Bay was so close.
Up 7-0 in the top of the seventh, just nine outs away from the most improbable turnaround in recent [...]

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The Red Sox stun the Rays, coming back from a 7-0 deficit to win 8-7 on a walkoff hit in the ninth inning
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It’s the second largest comeback in baseball playoff history, and it comes from the team that just refuses to die! The Boston Red Sox, king of the comeback, have done it again.  [...]

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