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Head coach Guy Boucher's first-pitch wrist-shot before Tampa Bay Rays game

With the Toronto Blue Jays in town for the season ending home series at Tropicana Field, the Tampa Bay Rays did a lot of outreach toward the Tampa Bay Lightning yesterday - Joe Maddon wearinga Lightning hat in pre-game remarks, radio staff wearing Tampa Bay Lightning pins in pre-game interviews.

Marketing a defaced product

Taking a break from fuming over the Lightning for a minute, I got a nifty little email this afternoon from one of the upteen PR firms that contact me from time to time with various sport inanities that are out there. This may be a Tampa Bay Lightning blog (that

Provincialism

Taking a break from my attacks on Lightning management, I'll redirect my efforts now toward the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. Previously known as "God's Waiting Room" (just had to dust that one off), St. Petersburg has turned into a happening place over the last decade. Nightlife thrives, there's a

William A. Shea Stadium's drawn out end

The demise of William A. Shea Stadium is now in progress.

Juiced story syndrome

Rays / Red Sox about to get underway on TBS (why the hell did MLB approve putting all playoff games in the first two rounds on basic cable?!) but I wanted to bring up MSNBC trying to milk everything out of Tim Wakefield's start tonight in an online column. I've got

"Major risk, major reward?" or "Evan Almighty!"

I've gotten used to the New York Islanders pulling stuff like this and I've also gotten used to the Tampa Bay lack-of-Devil Rays pulling this on a cost effective platform in the past... But a nine year investment in a rookie? This takes things to new risk levels: "This is

Crossing the line, sports wise

I got sent a story last night from my friend here in Tampa. He's a Red Sox fan and this was about a Yankees fan... So I wasn't at all surprised when he told me "Why is this news?" Yet this is news indeed: Fred Slaven is convinced this makes