Tampa Bay Loses the Devil, Wins a Pennant

by Stros Bro on Oct 19, 2008 11:28 PM CDT

That's right... the Tampa Bay Rays are your 2008 AL Champions after beating the Red Sox in game 7 to move on and face the Phillies in the World Series.

Not a whole lot here for me to say... I caught the last inning and a half on the radio on my way home from my hockey game and listened to my mortal enemy(Joe Morgan) broadcast the game...

I really just made this post to get the headline out there... I was going to go with more of a "Jesus Saves, banishes the Devil and comes out victorious", but I figured that would have been too religious and a little over the top. But it's true... as the Devil Rays, they never won more than 70 games in a season... as the Rays, they are the AL Pennant winners 100% of the time... Maybe the Astros should just change their name to the 'Stros and see how they come out.. The Houson 'Stros... okay, I don't like it.. but I don't like the Tampa Bay Rays either... so what do I know.

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This game was by far

One of the best baseball games I’ve watched this season. The sheer drama and magnitude of it all. The great pitching. David Price…15 months removed from college ball got an out that in a leverage situation in which the value of one run was worth 5 first inning runs and then converted the save. Incredible.

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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.

by Stephen Higdon on Oct 20, 2008 2:02 AM CDT reply actions

Congrats to the Rays. And here is a question for you....

Does it bother you that the Rays, another expansion team, could get a World Series championship before the Astros? Several other Astros’ fans whom I know have rooted against the Rays because they do not want to see another team get its “first World Series” before the Astros do. I can understand the sentiment. But it seems like jealousy, which probably isn’t a good reason…so, I try to suppress that emotion.

by clack on Oct 20, 2008 7:53 AM CDT reply actions

Bother me? (in response to Clack)

Nah, if they were the 1st team… then yea… but both the Diamondbacks and Marlins have already gotten me past that point

Go 'Stros!

by Stros Bro on Oct 20, 2008 8:15 AM CDT reply actions

And the Blue Jays, Angels, Mets, and Royals

Hell, the Rockies, Padres, and Brewers all made their first World Series much quicker than Houston.

At some point, you just have to accept that the Astros have gotten spectacularly unlucky over the years (JR Richard’s stroke, Bagwell and Biggio being seemingly unable to hit past September, Beltran turning out to be an asshole), as well as making many terrible personnel decisions. Unfortunately, while other teams frequently caught breaks on all of that, for us it meant that we didn’t go to a World Series for 42 years.

And you might say that we “deserve” it more than fans in Tampa Bay, Miami, Denver, or New York. But, sadly, sports don’t work that way, and they rarely follow the script.

So you just accept it and take solace in the fact that we can still make fun of the Rangers.

Oh, and I want the Phillies to win. Might make the people there less surly.

by Only_A_Lad on Oct 20, 2008 9:04 AM CDT up reply actions

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