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Avril Lavigne swears while throwing out first pitch at Rays game

thejerseychaser — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:55:41 +0000

S8ter Girl Avril Lavigne threw out the first pitch at the Tampa Bay Rays game and preformed at the Ray’s summer concert series for the Memorial Day weekend, but it isn’t her form that is drawing attention but that she shouted obscenities for all of Tropicana Field to hear. The incident occured as the crowd grew restless when Lavigne’s microphone stopped working during her opening song. When the crowd began to boo her, Lavigne shouted out obscenities just as her mic kicked back in broadcasting her feelings to all 25,000 fans.

The Rays released a statmenet saying: “The Rays demand profanity-free performances from all of our concert performers and we are extremely disappointed by the language used in last night’s show. It is not consistent with the family-friendly atmosphere that Tropicana Field is known for.”

It is not known if the Rays will beef up secruity when the Wiggles come to Tropicana Park next month.

Home robbed of Evan Longoria and teammates

thejerseychaser — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:50:43 +0000

A home rented by Evan Longoria and three other Tampa Bay Rays teammates for spring training was robbed this weekend. Longoria, David Price and Reid Brignac had over $50,000 of personal items stolen from their rented home while the team played a game at Charlotte Sports Park.

”They took pretty much everything that was ours inside the house,” Longoria said. Among the stolen items include: Xboxs, iPads, watches, laptops and Longoria’s AK-47.

The fact that Longoria had a gun in the home of his spring training camp residence has raised some eyebrows amoung Rays fans, but according to the sherrif investigating the case, the gun is perfectly legal.

Though Longoria declined to go into detail he did say, “It’s a personal item. Obviously they’re going to say things that are taken. I think everything within the house is personal and we’ll just leave it at that.”

Longoria was a victim of theft earlier in spring training when his 1967 Camaro was stolen from an autobody shop in Arizona. Police do not think the crimes are related. And I thought stealing was encouraged in baseball?!?

Congratulations Tampa Bay Rays; celebrate postseason with slipe ‘n slide

thejerseychaser — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:26:11 +0000

The Tampa Bay Rays clinched the AL east and celebrated by making a makeshift slip ‘n slide out of a plastic tarp and champagne in their clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium. This is the Rays third AL East title in three seasons. Tampa Bay clinched the division on Sunday and will play the Texas Rangers in the opening round of the playoffs. Despite the Rays division title, the Minnesota Twins are the favorite to come out of the American League. The Twins face a tough opponent in the defending champions New York Yankees.

Tampa Bay Rays wear bRAYSers

thejerseychaser — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:51:39 +0000

Tampa Bay Rays Manager, Joe Maddon introduced a hot new look in the bullpen. The Rays will all wear matching plaid blazer for their west cost road trip, which Maddon nickednamed “bRAYSers” Maddon created a new team policy that all team personnel must work the word Rays into as many puns as possible. It must be working, since the Rays are in first place!

Matt Garza throws a no-hitter; Jim Leyland no-spitter?

thejerseychaser — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:58:24 +0000

On Monday night, Tampa Bay Ray Matt Garza pitched a no-hitter in the Ray’s 5-0 win over the Detroit Tigers. Garza’s no-hitter is the first one in franchise history, but not the first no-hitter this season. The year of the pitcher, Garza becomes the fifth player to pitch a no-hitter in 2010, well on track to beating the record of seven no-hitters in season back in 1990 and 1991.

While baseball fans have seen plenty of no-hitters and one kinda perfect game, Tigers manager Jim Leyland also gave fans a no-spitter. Leyland is in the midst of a spitting controversy. Umpire Marty Foster is claiming Leyland spit on him during an altercation in the third inning of Garza’s no-hitter. Leyland was tossed from the game after arguing with Foster over Ray’s B.J Upton’s stolen base.

Foster ejected Leyland claiming the manager spit on him, but Lelaynd says he’s innocent. “Did I spray him? Yes. Did I mean to? No. I was talking right close [to him] and what happens a lot of times, happened. I asked him if he was going to write me up. He said, ‘You spit on me.’ I said, ‘You mean to tell me that you’re going to write up that I deliberately spit on you?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Well that’s a blatant lie.’

The MLB is investigating the incident and will decide if further disciplinary action will be taken.

Video: Fight in Tampa Bay dugout

thejerseychaser — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:32:33 +0000

Fighting isn’t just in hockey, Tampa Bay teammates got into a heated dispute in the dugout on Sunday. The altercation came between superstars BJ Upton and Evan Longoria. Longoria called out Upton for not hustling after a ball hit by Arizona’s Rusty Ryal. This is not the first time Upton has gotten into trouble for his lack of work ethic and was even benched by Manager Maddon in the past. Tampa Bay has lost eight of their last 10 games.