GO RAYS!!!

I am sooooo excited!!! The Tampa Bay Rays won game 7 against the Boston Red Sox last night..and now they are going to the World Series!!! So exciting!

Game 1 of the World Series starts Wed night at Tropicana Field. I can't wait! I love the Rays!!!

I can't wait for spring training. The new spring training stadium is going to be opening in Port Charlotte this coming spring. How fun will that be?!?
Below is an article on Joe Maddon & the Rays. He is an awesome manager and has done so much for to pull this team together this past season.



For Maddon, 9=2 after big W in Game 7 Skipper's trust in players culminates in club's first Fall Classic berth
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com

ST. PETERSBURG -- The walls were draped in a toxic-smelling shield of fresh latex, as veterans, rookies and hangers-on alike wielded bottles of bubbly and took aim at everything in sight. If you were dry, you weren't trying hard enough.
It is a scene that plays out every October in ballparks throughout the big leagues, the giddy joy of grown men achieving their dreams, but it was never supposed to happen in the basement at Tropicana Field. At least, not in the home clubhouse, not so soon.

It took the optimistic influence of a self-admitted "dreamer" to help make it so, and as the sunshine-happy Rays carried on a party that would last into the early-morning hours, the question had to be asked: How could manager Joe Maddon possibly have known?

"Believe me," Maddon said, his silver hair dripping with the golden sparkle of barley and hops, dripping into the lenses of his thick black-framed glasses. "When it comes down to these moments, it's about your intuitive nature. You can be taught, you can learn from other people, but when it comes down to it, it's all based on intuition."

"I'm very proud of where our group is at today, and I could understand why you would have belly-laughed back then. But nobody is belly laughing right now. And I could not be more proud of this group, and I have a strong conviction and belief that we're going to get it done tonight."