February 2012
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MLB unveils the "Sam Fuld Rule" →
battingcleanup:
A season after the Tampa Bay manager put outfielder Sam Fuld to the mound to warm up for the sole purpose of giving a reliever extra time in the bullpen, Major League Baseball closed the loophole.
MLB has amended Official Baseball Rule 3.05 regarding such shenanigans. The change will “prohibit a manager from sending his current pitcher out to warm up with no intention of...
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I feel like this might be the best Rays team that I have ever been on.
– Tampa Bay Rays Pitcher David Price
(via alexiaobviamente)
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Joe Maddon: Tampa Bay Rays ‘very capable of going back to the World Series’
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JP Howell shaved his head
and lost weight.
This has been news.
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The banner’s up there.
– Maddon on Cashman’s statement Yanks conceded division title in 2010
BURNNNNNNNNN
(Via Mark Topkin)
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Sam Fuld on the Rays' win over the Yankees in Game... →
I like to consider myself a coordinated person. I make a living running after baseballs in the outfield, sometimes dodging bullpen mounds, dancing along unpadded walls, even leaping over oncoming teammates on occasion. I think I could more than hold my own on those Japanese obstacle course TV shows. But when Evan Longoria lined a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 12th inning against the Yankees...
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We’ll save the ‘Benjamin Button of major-league managers’ for...
– Friedman on referencing Maddon’s again darker hairstyle.
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Fanfest today.
Pictures to come.
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We’re all motivated by different things. My motivation isn’t the dollar sign —...
– Joe Maddon, the Mayor of Tropicana Field on Foursquare, on signing the extension that will keep him at head of the Rays’ bench through 2015. I’ve heard people say that Maddon looks better simply because of the glut of young talent on Tampa Bay’s roster, which is a pretty superficial argument.
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