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	<title>Tampa Bay Sports Blog &#187; Justin Ruggiano</title>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t care if BJ makes that play!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Maddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   F*#K BJ Upton! I don&#8217;t care if BJ would have made that play, we all know he would have. HE took himself out of that ball game and Garza should whoop his ass for it. I&#8217;m extremely proud of Papa Joe right now as he is taking a stance against the super ass known as BJ Upton. I know I&#8217;ve been sick of watching him for a while and I dogged Maddon and company for not doing something about it sooner. I&#8217;m proud of Joe for doing something about it now. With all the talk around the deadline about &#8220;team chemistry&#8221; and the main reason behind no one wanting Barry Bonds here being the solid clubhouse atmosphere I would personally love to see a backdoor clubhouse ass-whoopin&#8217; given to Upton&#8217;s punk ass! He struts around as if he&#8217;s the greatest player in the game and isn&#8217;t putting up the numbers or the effort to do so. I agree with all the BJ defenders in saying that he would&#8217;ve made that play in CF that Ruggiano botched, but I&#8217;m still happy to see his ass riding the pine. I fully expect Joe Maddon to sit his ass tomorrow also and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays are gonna take it to the wire.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Fuentes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Pena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Niemann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Hellickson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reid Brignac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy Percival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wade Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Ohman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays won today if you hadn&#8217;t heard. EJax pitched decent, Pena homered and all that good stuff. The game wasn&#8217;t televised so I couldn&#8217;t watch, but it appeared that Percival wasn&#8217;t a complete nightmare today either. A good day all around. Onto the trade deadline stuff. The Rays are currently linked to Jason Bay and are said to have the best offer on the table. What worries me about this story is that the Rays appear set in their offer and not willing to budge. I understand this with Wade Davis, David Price and Jeremy Hellickson, but I don&#8217;t understand the unwillingness to move Reid Brignac. I know he&#8217;s a &#8220;top prospect&#8221; and I understand that there is basically no depth with middle infielders in the minors. What I don&#8217;t get is the unwillingness to mortgage a little bit of the future to go for it now. Bay isn&#8217;t the ideal guy to put in RF, but he&#8217;s the exact type of bat that we need there. It&#8217;s all conflicting reports but the boys at Rays Index are saying that he&#8217;s basically untouchable and I trust what they say. On to the Brian Fuentes stuff, I don&#8217;t see it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glover&#8217;s gone and some other stuff.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunter Pence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays activated reliever Gary Glover today and immediately designated him for assignment. Bye bye Glover, it&#8217;s been fun, uh not really. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got to say about Mr. Glover. Anyway, I had a slow day today so I decided to look at some of the past games this year with Justin Ruggiano to try and get a better hold of what type of player he is. I have come away with the same impression I had before, why no shot for this guy yet? He has decent pop in his bat, is a good fielder, has a decent arm in RF and has basestealing ability. I keep seeing other sites call him a tweener and that is a stupid statement. You can&#8217;t call someone a tweener when they haven&#8217;t played much at the next level. He&#8217;s done enough to earn a shot here and there is no real reason to keep him down at AAA. The thing that is getting to me is that Gomes (I know and I&#8217;m not letting it go either) continues to get limited playing time and complains about it. He says that he needs consistent playing time to get himself going. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays rumors and options.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Sonnanstine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Fuentes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Barmes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Demaso Marte]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Texiera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburg Pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocco Baldelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Mahay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trevor Miller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   There are a ton of rumors swirling around the Rays as the deadline approaches this Thursday and they&#8217;ve got everyone guessing as to what they&#8217;re gonna do. I know my stomach dropped Friday when I saw the Yankees had obtained Xavier Nady and Demaso Marte from the Pirates. I really wanted Nady and thought the Rays could&#8217;ve gotten him using some sort of package involvingguys like Edwiin Jackson, Jason Hammel, Jeff Niemann or Andy Sonnanstine. The Pirates need pitching and the Rays have some to spare, so what happened? It&#8217;s anybone&#8217;s guess. This is hard for me to swallow for two reasons. It really helps the Yanks, who are coming fast, and it blocked the Rays from the deal. They killed us twice so to speak. This all leaves me wondering what the Rays plan to do. They&#8217;re being linked to guys like Brian Fuentes, Ron Mahay, Clint Barmes (god no), Jason Bay (no way that&#8217;s going to happen), Matt Murton, Mark Texiera and Matt Holliday (just for fun on the last two). I&#8217;m getting more frustrated with this because they don&#8217;t seem to be actively trying to move a Jackson, Hammel or Sonnanstine the way they should be. When David Price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upton needs a kick in the ass!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ass kick in tampa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cliff Floyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fernando Perez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Maddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Grudzielanek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   I have to take a minute and get on B.J. Upton since no one else seems to want to. I&#8217;m completely sick of hearing the excuses being made for Upton by people saying he&#8217;s an &#8220;effortless athlete&#8221;. Let&#8217;s clear this up now. He is a very smooth athlete who CAN do things other can&#8217;t in a effortless manner. The problem is he is more of an athlete with no effort. I&#8217;m sick of watching him dog it down to first, make bonehead decisions and loaf after balls in the gap. More so though, I&#8217;m sick of no one doing anything about it. Grow a pair Maddon! The coddling of this whiny ass in CF has gotten out of control. We&#8217;re already in a situation where the Rays have no real candidate to play center and yank this jerk out of the lineup when he does this crap, but no one seems to want to let him know about it. Why did we sign Cliff Floyd again? Oh that&#8217;s right, as a &#8220;mentor&#8221; to our young players like Upton and Crawford. Do something Cliff! It&#8217;s so aggravating because B.J. IS so talented. This is what made me lose it in last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays in first yet I still must bitch&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   Yes I am as excited as anyone out there that the Rays are in first. Now this means a few things to me and my few readers out there. First thing is that this series will be intense on the field and in the stands. Going to these games means I will be dealing with all these annoying Sox fans and if the shit goes down on the field, we could be brawling in the stands as well. Anyone ready to post bail for me? My son going to his mother&#8217;s for the week doesn&#8217;t help either, more free time more to drink is bad news! It should be fun though and I&#8217;ll try to keep my cool here. Now all that leads to the fact that my posts will be few and far between over the next few days. I&#8217;ll be taking my camera with me to these games so I&#8217;ll try to have some cool pics when the series is done. Good times. Now, on to my bitch fest. First thing is regarding something I saw over at DRays Bay. In a quick reference on Saturday&#8217;s game I saw something about B.J. Upton being moved into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zobrist is back, yay!</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/tampa-bay-rays/zobrist-is-back-yay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Zobrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   This is where I don&#8217;t understand the politics of baseball and what not. It appears that Ben Zobrist is still holding those pictures of someone making love to a sheep. Mr. Zobrist is a guy who I have always wondered how he made it. The Rays needed another infielder and now the big Z is here to fill that need. I&#8217;ll deal with that. My biggest question here is with Justin Ruggiano. Why send him down? Let&#8217;s be honest here, Jonny Gomes is the one who should be gone. Gomes is completely useless in the field and is almost as useless at the plate. I know they&#8217;re paying him and he doesn&#8217;t have options, but isn&#8217;t it time they just DFA&#8217;d the guy? I feel pretty confident he&#8217;ll get through waivers, and if he doesn&#8217;t, he can go somewhere else and strike out with the bases loaded. Justin has earned his shot and brings more to the table than the Pro Wrestler. He can actually play the field, he hits well enough and should be someone the Rays are looking at to platoon with Gabe Gross. Now we still have Gomes and the big Z is back. Outstanding! Source: Rays Report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays bad again in loss to Sox.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/tampa-bay-rays/rays-bad-again-in-loss-to-sox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 02:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   James Shields took the hill and looked bad from the first pitch tonight. These things happen. Shields is a good pitcher and this is just something that happens to all pitchers from time to time. The bullpen is starting to come down to earth as Howell and Dohman both gave up runs. Anyone who thought this team would finish the season with the best bullpen was crazy anyway. It was a bad night all around and there does need to be some changes made soon. I&#8217;m sick of watching Dioner Navarro act like he&#8217;s sitting on a bar stool behind the plate and not even attempting to move sideways or even drop down to block wild pitches. You can visually see each and every pitcher on the staff working to keep the ball down and in doing so they are ALL bouncing more pitches to the plate than normal. When you are having your pitchers do this the catcher must be aware and REACT accordingly. The fat catcher is a statue behind the plate and it&#8217;s getting worse. He will no longer be referred to by his given name on this site as the fat catcher has earned his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rays keep winning in Orlando.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Pena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cliff Floyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   If the Rays keep this up the ownership group may look at a new ballpark in Orlando instead. Just kidding (hopefully). Shields pitched well, Longoria homered, Navarro made a nice return and Eric Hinske had a good time bashing his former team. I&#8217;m of course speaking literally here as Hinske darn near hit for the cycle against his former team. A nice game all around for the Rays and they have won four straight in Orlando now dating back to the last years sweep of the Rangers. The fun part of this win today was that earlier today DRaysBay interviewed Drunk Jays Fans and they seemed pretty happy not to have Eric Hinske anymore. How bout now? I&#8217;m not going to make too much of that because we can relate with Aubrey Huff. Huff kills us every time it seems but I don&#8217;t want him back, so believe me I can relate.    In other Rays news today the Rays picked up another lefthanded outfielder from the Milwaukee Brewers in Gabe Gross for minor league pitcher Josh Butler. You can read about the trade in a brief mention over at MLBTR. I&#8217;m puzzled as to why the Rays need another LH outfielder. What exactly [...]]]></description>
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