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It’s the series that won’t end.  Like the Energizer bunny it just keeps going and going and going…
SCOTT JACOBS
Tonight’s the night!  No seriously, they’re going to finish this unprecedented suspended game five tonight.  It’s going to happen.  It’s going to start at 8:37, last nine innings (wouldn’t that be fitting if it went 15 […]

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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
SCOTT JACOBS
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
SCOTT JACOBS
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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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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With Tampa Bay obliterating the Red Sox 9-1 at Fenway Park in game 3 of an exciting ALCS, Florida’s unexplainable post-season dominance continues
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You can’t help but wonder what is in the water in Florida. Or what they’re feeding these guys in Florida. Or something, anything at all, to explain the state […]

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LA-Philly should be a fun series, but the proof is in the pudding that Red Sox-Rays should be an instant classic
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The ALCS is set! Boston-Tampa Bay. It should be one heck of a brawl. The two AL East rivals, who finished one and 32 last year respectively, are playing for a […]

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