The Tampa Bay Rays aren’t the hottest team in baseball, but they’ve taken six of their last seven with the Red Sox and are now just two games back in the wild card race.
Rays manager Joe Maddon has always been an outside-the-box thinker. He’s not confined by typical baseball conventions, and that mindset has helped the Rays do well under his watch.
The Tampa Bay Rays have developed a reputation for their clothing themed road trips. Manager Joe Maddon decided to have players wear 1950s style hats on a trip from New York to Boston Sunday.
Anyone who has watched baseball since 1998 will tell you Tropicana Field is an awful venue.
The Tampa Bay Rays and extremely friendly to fellow members of the sports community. During spring training, manager Joe Maddon let Buccaneers football coach Raheem Morris manage a game.
Carl Crawford was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays organization in 1999 and played nine seasons for them.
That Joe Maddon must be quite the character to have come up with the idea of dressing up for road trips.
Truth be told, I have kind of forgotten that “Yankees Suck” is a somewhat inappropriate phrase.
