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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Maddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
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		<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>Five moves the Rays should make.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Friedman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Lyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Fuentes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Pena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chad Bradford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elijah Dukes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Sheffield]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    In the spirit of trying to keep up with the goings on of the hot stove league I&#8217;ve decided to look at the possibilities and suggest five moves the Rays should make to improve their team. I will try to be as realistic as I can be while trying to view things from both sides. Let&#8217;s roll with it and see how it goes. Sign Joe Beimel: Starting slow and sounding as simple as possible, I know, but the addition of Beimel as Trever Millers replacement would be a huge upgrade to an already good bullpen. Beimel has done very well in the last few years with the Dodgers and, as a type B free agent, there would be no draft picks lost. Beimel could legitimately be used in more situations than just the lefty on lefty matchups if needed, but would be the ideal guy to slot in with Howell, Balfour and Wheeler in shutting teams down from the seventh inning on. There is a lot of competition out there for Beimel but I think it could be done. Re-sign Rocco Baldelli: One of those sentimental moves I think both sides would go for. The only problem that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays season over, sigh.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/tampa-bay-rays/rays-season-over-sigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Reyes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Pena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chad Bradford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cliff Floyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fernando Perez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grant Balfour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.P. Howell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bartlett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Birkins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Talbot]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Time to wrap up the Rays season. What a season we had here, never saw this coming. I thought, the same as everyone else, the Rays would improve but not to this extent. Let&#8217;s wrap it up&#8230; The defense: The most dramatically improved thing on this team was the defense. The arrival of Jason Bartlett and Evan Longoria made this into the best left side defense in baseball. I was skeptical of Bartlett in the beginning (no need to bring my stupidity there again) as he had some unexplained throwing errors early but recovered to have a great season (should&#8217;ve got the gold glove over Young in my opinion). Longo was great defensively from day one and that&#8217;s that. Aki transitioned nicely over to second and Pena (won gold glove) was phenomenal. Having Pena at the corner saved Barty and Longo at least 5 errors a piece. Navarro&#8217;s improvement behind the plate was far and away the most amazing difference I saw. He was such a different player all around this year that I want to compare images from last season to see if this is the same guy. Unreal! Crawford and Upton were very good and have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays can&#8217;t finish at the worst moment.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Phillies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brannelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Kazmir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   I realize what an awful time this is for my first post back but I had to write something. I want to say a couple quick things about the Rays in the series and the playoffs in general. They showed tremendous heart and fortitude throughout and played way above their heads. I have been in awe of this team all year and I&#8217;m more proud of them than I ever thought I would be at this moment. Whether they get back to the series or not, they have made me proud of their accomplishments this year and that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll always remember this as a dream season. Now, to preface my second point I&#8217;m gonna sound like a homer whiner but, this looked like an impossible series for the Rays to win. They had to beat the Phillies and the UMPIRES! The shoebox strike zone that Kaz and Garza had to pitch to wasn&#8217;t questionable, it was disgustingly biased. Screw the missed calls on the bases and the other crap, no one could&#8217;ve pitched well enough to win with that strike zone and they still kept the games close. That was amazing to me! Now I would like to congratulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays drop first to the Yankme&#8217;s.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Runge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Pena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bartlett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Maddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mussina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Willy Aybar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xavier Nady]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, but you should all know by now that since my life is chaotic, my postings become chaotic. I&#8217;m trying to slow things down a little now but we&#8217;ll see how it goes. Anyway, the ancient relics in pinstripes came to town and took game one of the series 7-2. I heard their pathetic chants at the game and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll have a whole lot to say tomorrow so I will only say one thing, wait til the series is over idiots! The stat padder in blowout games that is Gay-Rod, oops A-Rod, came out to play and the man who should be wearing a Rays uni hit a bomb to left. It was hard to watch and even harder to listen to. The Yanks may have the oldest, most over-rated and overpaid team in baseball but they still have the most annoying fans. These are fans who didn&#8217;t bother to show up to the game either. I also hate to sound like one of those people here too but did anyone else feel like Matt Garza was being screwed tonight? Talk about an erratic umpire! Now some notes&#8230;. Even though the Rays didn&#8217;t produce too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t care if BJ makes that play!</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/tampa-bay-rays/i-dont-care-if-bj-makes-that-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barry Bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Maddon]]></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>The Rays need a real hitter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The series in Boston is pretty much going the way I thought it would. I&#8217;m not silly enough to think the Rays can go to Boston and sneak out with another series win. I figured they would drop the first two and grab the third behind James Shields. This isn&#8217;t being brought up because of the two losses, I&#8217;ve been meaning to bring this up for a while now. The Rays bats are not very good right now. Aki has picked it up over the last month, TFC and Bartlett are doing better. The problem is the middle of the order. Upton is still taking too many strikes and isn&#8217;t hitting for any power. Watching him at this point he looks to be a better leadoff hitter than number three hitter. Pena has struggled and is now hurt. Longoria hasn&#8217;t burst on the scene like we all anticipated. Looking at the lineup from top to bottom there is absolutely no one that would scare any pitcher out there. The Rays need to make a move to get a legit middle of the order hitter. To take it a step further in my little fantasy here, I want an elite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays are winning in spite of Maddon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Zobrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Crawford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Bartlett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   First thing to say here is that the players on the field are getting it done. All the credit in the world belongs to the guys on the field doing what needs to be done. No doubt about it. I am getting very frustrated with our idiot Manager now though. It seems at the moment that the players are winning in spite of what Mr. Maddon does. This creates a problem because Maddon isn&#8217;t going to try and correct what seems to be working even though it won&#8217;t continue to work. At the game today there a some things that stuck out to me.   First thing is a glaring issue. What the hell was Jason Bartlett doing batting sixth? Is a guy swinging a rubber bat (who&#8217;s BA, SLG and OBP were all under .300 to start the day) really going to protect Evan Longoria? In the first inning they walked Longoria intentionally to get to Bartlett and JB grounded out. I hope this was just an attempt at something different and doesn&#8217;t become some sort of new wave crap Maddon wants to try.    We don&#8217;t bunt enough! This is the main thing that bothers me where the players are overcoming stupid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays win again, time to give props.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 03:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays shut out another team tonight behind some nice pitching and defense. The defense is the main reason for the improvement of the pitching staff this year in my opinion and it&#8217;s time I gave some guys props for the work they&#8217;ve put in.    Matt Garza is almost as unpredictable as Edwin Jackson but he continues to put up solid performances when needed. He threw seven plus innings of shutout ball tonight and since coming off of the DL has been good. He is 3-1 in 36.1 innings with an ERA of 2.99 since his short DL stint and the team is 6-2 in his starts during that time. He has walked 15 and struckout 14 in that span which is troublesome but he&#8217;s getting it done.    Troy Percival is holding up better than I expected. I thought that, given his injury history and age, that Percy would have a hard time being a full time closer again but he&#8217;s doing it. Troy has saved 14 games so far and he appears to be all that was advertised. The games he&#8217;s given up don&#8217;t seem to effect him the next time out and he&#8217;s taking control of the bullpen. You can probably attribute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays still cruising, Yankees fans should be ashamed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akinori Iwamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioner Navarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Longoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays kept things rolling by defeating the Yanks 7-1 in the first game of a four game series. The Matt Garza we were sold on in the trade showed up last night getting ground balls and keeping hitters off balance all night. I think we would all like to see him get the pitch count down (108 in seven innings) but all was good. It appears that the bats have awakened also. Aki and Longoria both had two hits helping their averages and Jonny Gomes looked like Rickey freakin&#8217; Henderson last night. The &#8216;fat catcher&#8217; kept up his hot streak getting three more hits raising his average to .362. I&#8217;m trying not to get too excited but good lord these guys are fun to watch right now. Some notes now for all.    More fans need to show: There should be no excuse now for all of you not going to these games. I realize that I only live two miles from the stadium so I&#8217;m not saying everyone should make it to the same amount of games I do but less than 15,000 for the Yankees? Get off your asses and go people!    Yankees fans are [...]]]></description>
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