What Is With The Tampa Bay Rays?

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

Can the rays afford all those players if they wanted 2 get em?

[Javier]

The way some fans describe their Tropicana Field experience, I'd probably be watching the games at home too. 

[theremedy360]

Can the rays afford all those players if they wanted 2 get em?

I was just naming off players on their team..

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

Im jus sayin they one of the most talked bout teams last few years

[theremedy360]

Oh yeah, and props to my boy Iveus for the Ichiro sig  

Props to you too, only 31 more hits until his 200th.

Are you from the 206?

[Chamillitary Click]

Oh yeah, and props to my boy Iveus for the Ichiro sig  

Props to you too, only 31 more hits until his 200th.

Are you from the 206?

He's from Japan.

[theremedy360]

Oh yeah, and props to my boy Iveus for the Ichiro sig  

Props to you too, only 31 more hits until his 200th.

Are you from the 206?

He's from Japan.

Oh damn lol..was hoping to find a fellow Washintonian on here, but I guess an Ichiro fan is a start.

[The Come Up Shuffle]

Actually Cham brought up a good point, in FL you have a lot of transplanted residents especially transplanted NY'ers who already are fans of other teams.  That could also have something to do with Tampa's attendance woes.

[MistaNova]

Are you from the 206?

He's from Japan.

Oh damn lol..was hoping to find a fellow Washintonian on here, but I guess an Ichiro fan is a start.

Lol, I spent over half of my life in 914 though.

[theremedy360]

Actually Cham brought up a good point, in FL you have a lot of transplanted residents especially transplanted NY'ers who already are fans of other teams.  That could also have something to do with Tampa's attendance woes.

Yeah, I guess that make sense, but then why were people soeager to move a team to Tampa? In '95 the Mariners woulda gotten moved there had they not made the playoffs/raised enough fanfare to build a new stadium. At this point it's obvious that Seattle is a much better market, but there must have been something that the MLB liked about Tampa.