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It took ten long years, but the Tampa Bay Rays are going to the playoffs
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You know the expression, the longer you wait, the more you appreciate something when it finally happens?
Well, the Rays waited.  And waited.  And waited.
And today it happened.
Ten years into the making.
Tampa made the playoffs.
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Some wild stuff going on in the Big Leagues of late as we wind down an exciting season
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It’s the only sport for months, and then football comes along and it gets buried. The excitement wavers. The anticipation dies down. It’s only natural for there to be a drop-off in concentration, […]

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On Monday the Red Sox sold out their Major League record breaking 456th game in a row at Fenway park. It’s an incredible test of fan loyalty, that few cities could even come close to matching

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456.
It’s not a new home run record for a catcher. It’s not a new record for […]

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A topic of many discussions, it seems like MLB is on the verge of instituting a system that will properly identify home run balls and foul balls
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“That ball is hit hard, it’s hit deep, that ball is… out of here?”
You will never hear an announcer say that, but the way some balls have […]

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Rumored deal that would send enigmatic Manny Ramirez to South Florida may not be in the team’s best interests
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If you follow baseball, you’ve heard the rumor. The Marlins, Red Sox, and Pirates are talking a blockbuster three team swap that would net Florida Manny Ramirez.
I’m going to say something that might surprise […]

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If athletes didn’t say ridiculous things, what the heck would we have to talk about?
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Manny Ramirez has said and done a lot of memorable things since inking an eight year $168 million free agent deal with Boston in 2000. But few will manage to top this gem of a quote that […]

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Baseball finally resumes the second half (in full) tonight, and you can say you survived the worst midweek in the sports calendar
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“I’m so cold. I think I see Blue. He looks glorious!”- Will Ferrell, Old School
Sports fans were seeing blue to this week as they actually had to leave their houses […]

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Picks so risky you’ll be saying, ‘did he really just say that?”
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The Indians will not be in the World Series as I predicted at the start of the year… so who’s got the best shot?… O, cmon, did you really think I was going to answer that in the first line? No way […]

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