Who gives a fuck about 2008? 2009 is much sexier…

I wish every game not played by the Red Sox was three innings and lasted for an hour.

I just could not watch the off season if the Rays won. Anyone else hate this team?

We subsidize the Rays and they beat us and act like punks.

When Tampa actually pays someone I might want them to win.

Good for the Phillies. Congrats. Rays you are just another in a long line of teams no one will ever care about…except when people talk about the Red Sox coming back from 7 down in game 5.

I was getting fed up with Red Sox fan support for the Rays. They’re our main division rivals! They knocked us out of the post-season! I’m glad we don’t have to listen to the fairytale worst-to-first encomia any more.

I am super excited that the Phillies won —super excited the Rays lost too!!

I too am tied of the Rays story – just as I tired of the Rockies story last season.
I know Sox fans who were rooting for the Rays & I did not get that at all. Glad its over & ended as it did.

Rays fans are the new Cubs fans. They wanna trade E-Jax and some other lowly prospects for Hunter effing Pence. E-Jax. God help us…

It’s their fan base that sucks balls! They were the biggest bunch of douche bags I’ve encountered in a long time. People say that Red Sox fans are bad? I was probably hit by 5 empty cups, 120 peanuts, and $30.00 worth of beer at game 1 of the ALCS. And that was just for cheering while wearing a Red Sox jersey! I probably would have been stabbed had I been even the slightest bit obnoxious. Then there were the standard death threats and comments regarding mothers while walking to and from the games. Who would have thought a group of people watching baseball for 3 months could harbor such hostility toward the opposing teams fans?

Way to put those “fans” back in their place Philly!

Peavy and Webb both need to be in any discussion involving top 5 or 6 starters in MLB….

Secondly Tampa went effing nuts against us hit like 18 homers…and still barely squeeked past us in 7 with at least a 3rd of our order being sh*t. And I’m still smarting about game 2, still ropeable, but anyway those are my issues.

And the last point is we would have smoked Philly in 5 max. They would’ve been absolutely sh*tting themselves if we had pulled off ANOTHER comeback.

Most of the trash down there have no roots, so you cannot expect many quality people in that area. MLB is really putting the heat on the organization to get a new stadium, and the city of Tampa and St. Pete want nothing to do with building a new place. The team is going to get re-located somewhere, possibly even Orlando, as they haved had one series there the last two seasons. Tampa cannot and will not suport MLB, so the team will be elsewhere in the next decade. It’s a trashy place, weather isn’t everything I tell ya.

The Rays themselves will not suprise or sneak up on anyone next season. This was the year they had to win, and they failed. I don’t subscribe to the theory they will be “in the mix” every season for a long time. I heard the same crap about the Tigers in 2006. You never know what can happen, and you have to take advantage of the time you are in the WS, and playoffs-the Rays did not. They blew it. I don’t see the guys they have in the bullpen having the same kinds of seasons next year as 2008.

They beat a Red Sox team that was held together with super glue and duct tape. Beating Timlin and Wakefield. (kudos to them on the 2 games they beat Lester though) I’m not impressed until they do it more than one year.

This just wasn’t our year. Injuries killed us, but we showed grit. I hate how the Rays fans think they are better than us because they beat us in an off year, for the first time in 11 seasons. I can’t wait for the year when they lose due to injuries, oh yeah….