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Tampa Bay Rays (official thread)

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Accordingly, their new mascot:

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JCOSU86;1099172; said:
Tropicana Field opened in 1990. At 18, it is hardly new. And it sucks. It has catwalks above the field. Once when I was listening to a Tribe game from there, a D-Rays player hit the ball a ton. It would have been a home run in any other park easily. But it hit the catwalk and an alert Omar Vizquel caught it for an out. Ridiculous.
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I don't know if anyone caught the Rays / Red Sox game tonight, but this exact thing happened on a routine fly ball off the bat of a Red Sox hitter with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd in the 9th (score 5-3). Ground rules at Tropicana stipulate that anything that hits the catwalk is a live ball, so the ball landed fair and a run scored. As I'm typing this, there are runners on 2nd and 3rd, it's 5-4, and now Troy Percival is leaving the game w/ a hamstring injury. None of this, of course, would have happened if the Rays didn't play in the hole that is Tropicana Field. Having lived in St. Petersburg for the better part of the past 3 years, though, I doubt the community will support a new baseball stadium. I can't blame them given the insurance crisis, the homeless problem, lackluster schools, and relatively high crime rates that exist in St. Pete.
 
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