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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
SCOTT JACOBS
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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Rays win wild game two 9-8 in 11 crazy innings to tie their ALCS with Boston 1-1
SCOTT JACOBS
Fans were sleeping. Heads were slouched, yawns aplenty. On the surface, this didn’t look like the closing moments of a crucial game two. It looked more like the 2008 All Star Game, that […]

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The Titans 5-0? The Rays four wins away from the World Series? The Giants actually showing they’re better then last year? In the words of someone far more famous than I, “What the hell is going on here?”
SCOTT JACOBS
Hey guys! Welcome back to the program. Consider our two day […]

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The Rays roll right into the ALCS with an impressive series victory over the White Sox, and guess what? They just might go all the way
SCOTT JACOBS
Goodbye laughingstock, hello final four.
If there was ever a doubt that the Tampa Bay Rays were for real, even as we entered the post-season, those doubts have […]

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Three days into the playoffs, and we’re possibly looking at an astonishing four sweeps
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The only thing more frustrating then the start of these 2008 MLB playoffs is the bombardment of annoying Frank TV ads that we the sports fan have to suffer through every other commercial. O yeah, there’s also been the stunningly boring […]

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Some wild stuff going on in the Big Leagues of late as we wind down an exciting season
SCOTT JACOBS
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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Boston-based opinion will all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
It’s the eve of the biggest series in the history of Tropicana Field and the whole town is, well, basically going crazy for the Rays.
Except for the approximately 1 billion transplanted New Englanders who live here, myself included.
For us exPats we’re caught in the crossfire, torn […]

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These numbers suggest that this week, logic need not apply in the sports world
SCOTT JACOBS
Welcome to another edition of JUICED NUMBERS. I post this on the same night that Carlos Mencia debuts his Performance Enhanced* comedy skit. This week, we bring you Performance Enhanced Numbers. Stats that at least for the Tampa Bay Rays, […]

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