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It's official. The DRays are now just the Rays, and they've jettisoned those awful green and black unis. I'm too lazy to post pics of their new unis, and they're nothing special. It would have been hard to make them any worse than they were, I guess.

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Name an entire pro baseball team after Ray Charles? How classy.

 

Needless to say, they've played like they've been blind ever since they've been formed.

 

No at times they play well and have a very good offense! The front office and the pitching is what has been running blind!!

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I thought I read somewhere a while back that they were considering changing the name to the "Saints". That's a much better idea than just the 'rays'. It's an inanimate object. Like naming a team the Wind. Or for that matter, the Wild.

 

edit: not an 'inanimate object', but you know what I mean.

 

I think they're alright. They're middle of the road. Nothing special, but definitely not Cardinal ugly.

 

Really? Aside from those baby blue monstrosities they bust out from time to time, I think the Cardinals uniform is really sharp.

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MLB should move both the Rays and the Marlins out of Florida. Neither one is going to succeed financially in Florida since people in Florida don't seem to care much for baseball. Move one of the teams to North Carolina and one of them to Las Vegas or something.
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MLB should move both the Rays and the Marlins out of Florida. Neither one is going to succeed financially in Florida since people in Florida don't seem to care much for baseball. Move one of the teams to North Carolina and one of them to Las Vegas or something.

 

I'd rather they kept at least one of the teams there, preferably Miami. You can't really blame those guys for not wanting to go and support that team given the way their owners have treated it. If they had an owner who wasn't a jackass and would at least attempt to privately finance a stadium and not "Huizenga" the team after a WS, then people might start showing up to games and caring. Miami is a far better market than Tampa Bay, from what I understand.

 

I used to have this cooky idea that the MLB should equalize the leagues to 15 teams per, until I realized that would cause a scheduling conflict. It went something like move the Devil Rays to Portland or Las Vegas, add them to the AL West, then move the Marlins to the AL East, then move Pittsburgh to the NL East. 5 teams per division, 15 teams per league. I'm not even really sure why I thought it was a good idea... OCD?

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What's with that weird star thing in the R?

 

Pretty middle of the road otherwise.

 

I believe that is the sun, casting its "rays".

 

I mean really, there are some pretty sweet animals in Florida, the grandest of all being the Alligator. The best they could come up with was the Rays? Hell, I would have preferred "The Geriatrics" to the "Rays".

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What's with that weird star thing in the R?

 

Pretty middle of the road otherwise.

 

I believe that is the sun, casting its "rays".

 

I mean really, there are some pretty sweet animals in Florida, the grandest of all being the Alligator. The best they could come up with was the Rays? Hell, I would have preferred "The Geriatrics" to the "Rays".

 

Wow, sun rays? What's next the Miami Bumblebees? New York Kittens?

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What's with that weird star thing in the R?

 

Pretty middle of the road otherwise.

 

I believe that is the sun, casting its "rays".

 

I mean really, there are some pretty sweet animals in Florida, the grandest of all being the Alligator. The best they could come up with was the Rays? Hell, I would have preferred "The Geriatrics" to the "Rays".

 

Funny since they play in a warehouse.

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from what I remember, a lot of people hated the name "Devil Rays" when the team was formed (ironic since I'm pretty sure the name was picked in fan balloting)
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http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rachael-Ray-R.jpg

 

http://www.raymovie.com/images/ray_splash_rev1_r1c1.gif

 

http://www.nndb.com/people/553/000025478/ray-romano.jpg

 

http://www.otranto.biz/news/2005/september/Rey-Mysterio.jpg

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MLB should move both the Rays and the Marlins out of Florida. Neither one is going to succeed financially in Florida since people in Florida don't seem to care much for baseball. Move one of the teams to North Carolina and one of them to Las Vegas or something.

 

I'd rather they kept at least one of the teams there, preferably Miami. You can't really blame those guys for not wanting to go and support that team given the way their owners have treated it. If they had an owner who wasn't a jackass and would at least attempt to privately finance a stadium and not "Huizenga" the team after a WS, then people might start showing up to games and caring. Miami is a far better market than Tampa Bay, from what I understand.

 

I used to have this cooky idea that the MLB should equalize the leagues to 15 teams per, until I realized that would cause a scheduling conflict. It went something like move the Devil Rays to Portland or Las Vegas, add them to the AL West, then move the Marlins to the AL East, then move Pittsburgh to the NL East. 5 teams per division, 15 teams per league. I'm not even really sure why I thought it was a good idea... OCD?

 

It could still work out, logistically. You just have two interleague series per week, that's all. You let the Cubs open with the White Sox, or the Mets and Yankees, or the Marlins and Rays, while everyone else plays within their division. Every 7 weeks or so, your team plays an interleague series. You would still need a week devoted exclusively to interleague games, but it could still work.

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MLB should move both the Rays and the Marlins out of Florida. Neither one is going to succeed financially in Florida since people in Florida don't seem to care much for baseball. Move one of the teams to North Carolina and one of them to Las Vegas or something.

 

I'd rather they kept at least one of the teams there, preferably Miami. You can't really blame those guys for not wanting to go and support that team given the way their owners have treated it. If they had an owner who wasn't a jackass and would at least attempt to privately finance a stadium and not "Huizenga" the team after a WS, then people might start showing up to games and caring. Miami is a far better market than Tampa Bay, from what I understand.

 

I used to have this cooky idea that the MLB should equalize the leagues to 15 teams per, until I realized that would cause a scheduling conflict. It went something like move the Devil Rays to Portland or Las Vegas, add them to the AL West, then move the Marlins to the AL East, then move Pittsburgh to the NL East. 5 teams per division, 15 teams per league. I'm not even really sure why I thought it was a good idea... OCD?

 

It could still work out, logistically. You just have two interleague series per week, that's all. You let the Cubs open with the White Sox, or the Mets and Yankees, or the Marlins and Rays, while everyone else plays within their division. Every 7 weeks or so, your team plays an interleague series. You would still need a week devoted exclusively to interleague games, but it could still work.

 

Only if you open up interleague to every team (a la the NBA). There is a reason that nearly every sport has even numbered teams in their conference structures

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