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		<title>Someone help me understand.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Kapler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Dillon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple years the Rays have made tremendous strides. They have gone from the perrenial loser to a contender. They have gone from a laughing stock to a respected organization. They are looked upon to contend against the big boys in the AL East. They have been praised for smart trades and drafting. I get all of this. Some of us disagree with some of the decisions (Kapler,Burell), but these are things that could be proven wrong still. I have now been completely lost by one decision and need an explanation. What was the thought process behind the Adam Kennedy/Joe Dillon deal? What the hell happened here? It&#8217;s easy to question a move like this after Iwamura got hurt, I know, but how does this happen? What about this deal was so appealing to the Rays? Follow what I see and tell me what I see wrong. Adam Kennedy is in the minor leagues under team control with no pressure to move him. He is a 32 year old proven 10 year major league second baseman that could provide quality depth and experience at both the minor and major league level. He is traded. A player of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we call Kapler useless yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ben Zobrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my confusion of wondering why Ben Zobrist hasn&#8217;t been handed the RF position I must critique Joe Maddon and Gabe Kapler. The charade should&#8217;ve already ended by now and Ben Zobrist should be the everyday rightfielder and beyond that I continue to wonder what the hell is keeping him from being out there. The original plan was to platoon Kapler and Gross in RF until Matt Joyce was ready to take over and Zorilla (Rays Index) was to be the super sub. In the process it appears that Zobrist has done enough to win the job in RF, but no dice. This is the most aggravating thing to me about Joe Maddon. I don&#8217;t agree with a lot of what he does, but he&#8217;s the man and I&#8217;m not so who really cares. I just keep getting frustrated by his refusal to alter anything, even when it is completely sensible to do it. Just to review some of this in bullets&#8230; Refused to move Upton from the three hole for the first part of last season. Has refused to move Upton from the leadoff spot this season despite Bartlett clearly being the better candidate at this point. Refuses to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That was ugly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 13:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rays looked awful last night and it really came as no surprise after we saw the first pitched. Kaz sailed one and it just wasn&#8217;t pretty from there. I do believe it&#8217;s time that we start worrying about Kazmir and his erratic pitching. He hasn&#8217;t looked right for a while now and he doesn&#8217;t seem to be turning the corner at all. More concerning to me than the lack of fastball control is the lack of bite that the slider has these days. It just doesn&#8217;t move like it used to. Hope Kaz can get himself correct, but I&#8217;m not very optimistic at this point. BJ still looks like crap and there is no excuse good enough for how horrible he looks. What I can&#8217;t understand is how he can look so nonchalant about being so bad. I keep laughing at all the so called experts out there that continue to defend this guy saying that he will shake this and have a good season. What is it that you&#8217;re seeing? Melvin looks terrible and even worse he looks like he doesn&#8217;t care. Even worse than that is the fact that Maddon looks like he doesn&#8217;t care either. Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More fun within the win.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Crawford&#8217;s legs are back. CC has looked like the Carl of old so far this season and yesterday he put an exclamation point on it. It was nice to see the singles turning into doubles and triples yesterday as he pretended he was back in High School or something. Six steals in a game is impressive and it was icing on the cake that he blew by Ellsbury for the league lead in the process. My only problem with all the steals was seeing how many fastballs Evan looked at in allowing CC to do it. Speaking of Evan, was anyone else as happy as I was when Evan gave the fans hell for screwing with that foul ball? When that fat idiot realized what he did he looked so pathetic and stupid that I almost felt bad for him. You can&#8217;t be that ignorant and Longoria had no problem letting him (and the other moron that tried to get the ball) know what jackasses they were. It got even more scary when Ellsbury sent that ball to the warning track. I thought he got it. Finally I will get on Upton. I have decided that I will not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explain this to me Joe, please.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fernando Perez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while, but who cares. As I sit and watch my favorite teams in the time that I get in the middle of my hectic weeks, I have decided to finally post something and it will be directed at Joe Maddon. The Rays are struggling in the early part of the season and that&#8217;s not really shocking, but I find something about the lineups that get run out everyday extremely troubling. What does it take to lose or win a job on this team? Seriously, what does it take? The constant days off for regulars has always troubled me, but I get it. What puzzles me is constantly running guys out who are clearly struggling. Let&#8217;s start with the fat catcher. Navarro looks bad in every sense of the word right now. He is not the same guy we saw last year, this is the mope we saw the year before. Weak stick, bad at bats and lazy catching. There is a problem with Navarro and we don&#8217;t know what it is. Now I&#8217;m not saying TFC needs to lose his job to Michel Hernandez, but wouldn&#8217;t it send a nice message to TFC and the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest trash talking.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/uncategorized/guest-trash-talking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Lightning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to give everyone a heads up, I have written a guest &#8220;shit talking&#8221; post for David Chalk over at Bugs and Cranks. It was fun to rip on the Pirates and I may jump in on some others if time permits. Thanks to David for reaching out and letting me do a little trash talking. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with David&#8217;s work, I encourage you to check it out. It&#8217;s extremely entertaining stuff. I&#8217;ll have more Rays posts up soon by the way and I may be adding a new blogger to the mix who will  help take care of the Lightning. Expect a post from her later in the week. I&#8217;ll get on the Rays stuff through the week and I am currently working on the player cards for the Rays only. I&#8217;m putting the Bucs on hold for a while. Thanks everyone and let me know what you think of the post over at Bugs and Cranks and be ready to comment on the new blogger when she&#8217;s ready. Related Posts:Ok, I&#8217;m back!Coco Crisp is a dirty bitch, Aki needs to defend himself!Rays are gonna take it to the wire.Player cards for 2009.Rays in first yet I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays look ready for &#8217;09.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rays have had a fairly busy offseason and now look pretty well set for the upcoming 2009 season. They have signed a few minor league free agents over the last few weeks to fill things out, including Morgan Ensberg. Ensberg wil most likely end up playing 3B in Durham but is a very nice low risk acquisition. He looked like an up and coming power hitter 6 years ago and hit 94 homeruns from &#8217;03 to &#8217;06. He fell off after that and has hit 13 homeruns since with Houston, San Diego and the Yankees. He could win a bench job and could  be needed if injuries hit either Evan Longoria or Carlos Pena. I like the move with Ensberg. All in all, it was a pretty good offseason for the Rays. I love the Matt Joyce/Edwin Jackson swap and I really think the Rays stole one there. Joyce will most likely start the season in the minors also as the Gabe platoon (Kapler/Gross) will hold down RF until the Rays feel he&#8217;s ready. When you look at how the Rays handle their organization they have seemingly set themselves up pretty nice. Joyce can stay in Durham and develop until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’ll go ahead and jump into the A-Roid mix.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There were a few crazy things that went on over the last couple weeks that I wanted to touch on and didn&#8217;t have time, but nothing got my attention more than the A-Rod deal. There has already been a tremendous amount of backlash on this situation and some of it is just funny. The dumbest thing I&#8217;ve seen written so far is what Bill Madden of the New York Daily News wrote about releasing A-Rod (hat tip to Mets Police for that one). Madden wants the Yankees to cut A-Rod, no matter the cost, in order to make a statement. The Yankees have more money than any team in baseball and they show it consistently with their ridiculous spending sprees, but not even the Yankees can justify writing off $270 million. This has to be the dumbest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen a legitimate reporter write. The Yanks already looked like idiots for paying Rodriguez the amount of money they did before A-Rod was a known steroid user. If they get nothing out of him AND spend that money they would look worse, not better Bill. There is no statement they could make that is worth a quarter billion dollars. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers are getting too full of themselves now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog world is a wild place. I have learned a lot of things the hard way since I started doing this last year and it has humbled me like nothing else I&#8217;ve done. I have done a lot of things in my life that have molded me into the man that I have become. My mentality and my world has constantly changed in my life and I know it always will. There were so many seemingly harsher things that I&#8217;ve dealt with and learned from like street fighting, USMC boot camp, parenthood, etc., that I thought it would be easy to jump right in to the blog thing and roll along without a problem. It&#8217;s a totally different animal than anything else I&#8217;ve done. I started this thing as a hobby site and it remains one and, for those of you that read already know, I&#8217;m still trying to find a direction to take this thing as it evolves. I&#8217;m not trying to be a journalist, become a writer or get credentialed in any way. That&#8217;s where I find such a huge difference between myself and most others out there. Rays Index brought something to my attention tonight that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays sign Kapler, really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rays have inked Gabe Kapler to a one year $1 million deal to be the fourth/fifth outfielder for 2009. They have been fairly active with minor leaguers too but I&#8217;ll leave that stuff to Rays Index. I&#8217;m as conflicted as a person be about this signing considering he&#8217;s a reserve outfielder. I like it in a sense because Kapler&#8217;s a decent outfielder and could platoon well with Gabe Gross if needed, but why do we need a platoon backup situation? I&#8217;ve never been in favor of platoons in general because I&#8217;ve always felt that if a guy can play, he can play, screw the other crap. Stats say otherwise and that&#8217;s the world we now live in so I&#8217;ll go with it. I don&#8217;t know much about Kapler other than he was once a highly touted prospect who turned into a journeyman type that was coaching before he decided to jump back into the player ranks. The problem I have with this signing is that Kapler got a mil and Rocco got less, granted there&#8217;s incentives, from the Red Sox. Marc Topkin tried to justify by saying that the Baldelli deal &#8220;could be&#8221; worth more because of playing incentives, but [...]]]></description>
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