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May 27, 2008
Welcome to RaysGeek!
Over the past three years, MetsGeek has provided readers with top-notch analysis and writing about the New York Mets. I regret to inform you that those days have passed. Writing about the team just became too much for our staff to take. The Mets’ play has been so disappointing in 2008, that we just couldn’t bring ourselves to write another word on this team. Something needed to change. Eric called a meeting at the MetsGeek offices. We threw some ideas around to liven the site up again, but, in the end, the staff unanimously agreed to just drop the Mets gimmick. We’re tired of this team, and we felt it was time to attach ourselves to a new beacon of light and hope: the Tampa Bay Rays. Why the Rays? As it turns out, we have a lot in common. We both needed to clean the slate with a new identity this season. Well, half a slate; the Rays only removed half their nickname, and, if you look at the banners above, you’ll notice we’ve chosen to do the same. Mr. Met’s smiling visage shall continue to shine down upon our daily content. After all, I’m not even sure if the Rays have a mascot, and Mr. Met remains the best, even when the team doesn’t. So I’d like to welcome everyone to RaysGeek.com, home of the best Rays analysis on the internets. We pray that you, our readers, shall remain faithful to the site and not the team. Unlike the Mets, we’ll never let you down. Because if the Rays’ season takes a turn for the worse, you can bet that we’ll be ready to jump ship again. And in the meantime: let’s go Rays! Cheers, Eric and Alex 89 Responses to “Welcome to RaysGeek!”Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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Finally I can root for Kazmir without a guilty conscience.
Oh man, that BJ Upton.
I’ll tell you, you draft good, you let ‘em grow at the major league level…
My only concern, of course, is Cliff Floyd.
Can’t you just see him gacking up a playoff game?
I **heart*** Evan Longoria
I don’t usually comment, but this is absolutely hysterical.
So, who do you think is gonna have a better career, Kazmir or Price?
This is GREAT!
Finally a team with hope and promise!
Hell, if the Geeks can turn over a new ray, I might even quit my job today!
Go Rays!!
(who’s our manager again?)
Hahahaha
Finally……a team with some youth and promise lol
Last night:
Kazmir 7IP 3H 0BB 10K
Pelfrey 4IP 6H 3BB 3K
*rolls eyes
Guys, it took you a while to catch up, but congrats! I became a Rays fan earlier this season. I guess I saw the handwriting on the wall a bit sooner than some. But I’m grateful for the company. Go Rays!
If you can’t beat ‘em, you’re not trying hard enough to get past stadium security
LOL
Andy Sonnanstine is gonna be my
Mets GeekRays Geek League Kryptonite. Now that I’m a Rays Geek, however, I shouldn’t have any problems picking Jurrjens over Sonny next year.Er, check that. I still hate the Braves.
MATT GARRRRRZA!
LMAO - this just made my morning.
Best part is, all that guilt I was feeling last night when I stopped watching the Mets mid-game and started rooting for Kazmir on behalf of my FBB team - GONE!
Go Rays!!
PHL - rooting for the Braves is still prohibited. The Rays fans probably hate the Braves b/c they used to steal all their fans, right?
I got Kazmir on my team as well lol.
Kazmir and King Felix did well for me last night.
That’s fantastic.
::wonders how long it would take to usurp the #1 SERP for “tampa bay rays blog” from draysbay.com::
::ducks::
::ducks again::
yea John - he sure is making up for lost time from April so far… he can’t stay healthy, but when he does, wow.
Trever Miller is my new Scott Schoeneweis!
Are we okay with the fact that our third baseman is dating a Frenchman?
NTTIAWT
Gimme Jason Bartlett over Jose Reyes any day of the week
Awesome. Lookout Landing did something like this earlier in the year, and that was funny as hell too.
So, how about that Dioner Navarro? Ain’t it nice to have a good young catcher who can hit?
btw, i’m pretty sure the domain name “raysgeek.com” is available. you guys should grab it ASAP
This is heeeee-larious. Congrats.
Oh shoot. This means I have to change my handle….
Uhhhm, stupid question: how do I change my handle?
Nevermind, got it.
Geez, this just depresses me even more. Look at those Rays. So many good, young players. No bad contracts. No massive controversy. A nerdy-looking manager who doesn’t say incredibly stupid things in an asinine tone of voice.
The Rays Geek.
Good work, Eric and Alex. I see you are not too timid to DFA an entire team, if you think it will improve performance in the near-term. It’s called proactive!
Let’s go Remarkabl’ Rays!!
Yeah, the Rays are exactly the team I would choose to replace the Mets. They are so anti-Met. Young, promising, hustling, and having a better shot at the playoffs this year and in the near future.
So where are we seeing the Rays play on geek day?
Texas!
I also love what they’ve done in Arizona. The D’Backs don’t have a signature offensive star (yet) but they have solid young players all over the diamond, several of whom (Drew, Upton, Young, Jackson) still have some room to develop. The D’Backs also have three horses at the top of their rotation in Webb, Owings and Haren and have a bullpen loaded with flamethrowers.
That D’Backs team is going to win some championships.
fish & snakes. those are things you can build a truly huge fanbase around.
what the hell is a met or a metropolitan anyway? are those words even nouns?
The Rays are fish any more. They are just light. Light as perceived by man, in a ray. Is it a wave? Is it a particle? Or is it both?
…are not fish anymore…
Fire Maddon.
MetsGeek is gone?
can anyone name the tampa bay GM without looking it up?
Andrew Friedman
I think we need to do something about the uniforms though
too 80’s
and no, it’s not chuck lamar.
wtf danny
probably should’ve posted that on metsblog instead, no way any of them could answer that
haha, Lamar was the GM for that one trade we made with them that I will not name.
Friedman is a good GM.
Ah, these guys have no “fire.” Dump Maddon.
i like the forest green ones they had prior to the name change a lot better..
Wow, openly flaunting being a flaming bandwagon fan. I guess what they said was right, one comes out and it wouldn’t be long before the closet was empty.
I’ve actually received two separate e-mails accusing us of being untrue Mets fans for changing teams so quickly. Oh, and also that our site sucks anyway. Whee!
I’m thinking of changing the RaysGeek slogan to something like, “Sarcasm: It’s not for everybody.”
the rays need a little shoring up in the middle relief area.
heilman & evans for kazmir???
i love this little bit of gallows humor. it is like whistling as you pass by a grave yard…
This is awesome. I’ve been on the bandwagon for awhile and now I can freely express my love.
…and you were expecting what after this was picked up by Metsblog?
Can you put horn rim glasses on a ray of light? Hm.
i also have liked the rays because i know the blue jays and orioles have no chance of ever dethroning the yanks/red sox in the East.
i like the rays because they got scott kazmir and also because they humiliate the red sux and skankees on a regular basis
their stadium is an ugly monstrosity, however
their new one looks promising, though
Yea, it looks nice.
wow! that is NICE…
yeah, very original design.
i’m reading the official story on their site. it talks about “… the transformation of the 85-acre Tropicana Field site into a retail and residential district.” it’s good to hear it won’t be turned into a giant parking lot. although “retail and residential district” sounds like “giant mall + condos/apartments near the mall,” so maybe there will be a giant parking lot.
we have so much to look forward to here on raysgeek! these are exciting times. we seem to have our whole future ahead of us…
This is truly hysterical. And I actually do root for the Rays. We can do Geek day at Camden Yards. Does that work for everyone?
would ever luv to see kazmir pitch in person! i get to baltimore every once & again. what a fantasy that would be…
ps speaking of front-running, let’s get a little wings chat going…
Clearly, this is a logical progression. Joe Maddon wears very similar glasses to Jason Phillips, the inspiration for the original logo.
This gave me a good laugh today and really made me feel better about baseball. It was a good joke and a great team to pick. I saw nothing wrong with it and find it sad that two people claimed you weren’t true metfans. I think the defining characteristic of bein a Met fan is making fun of the bad. Other fanbases, years after the fact, wouldn’t be cracking Bobby Bonilla jokes or Kevin Torve references to get laughs. It is a very unique fandom being a metsfan and I tell those two who emailed to lighten up. Why would they even care what you guys do if they think this site isn’t good anyway?
I think this is the only Mets site where you can get a variety of different opinions from all the contrinutors on the site, both staff bloggers and simple posters like myself. If I wanted everything sugar coated, I’d go to the Metsblog (No disrespect intended either to the staff there either). Keep up the good luck. May the Rays win more than they lose.
good work not good luck
Geek Day @ Camden Yards would be the awesomeness.
This was a great idea to lighten up a fan base thats had little to be excited about thus far this season to date. And everybody is piling on throwing out their two cents about all the other teams - My two cents says the team to beat in the NL (and maybe even MLB) this season is………..the Chicago Cubs. I really think this might be the year they finally do it. All most every team has a least one achillies heal (offense, defense, SP, bullpen) the Cubs are solid in pretty much every one of those categories.
And P.S. Willie should have given CD time off to clear his head….long ago!
the chubs will never overcome the goat curse. that is an historical fact, jack..
Hey Rays Geek: Our mascot, Raymond, tells Mr. Met to suck it.
how come our mascot is not a skate-like fish?
$140 million doesn’t buy what it used to.
WTF!!!!LMAO
i had heard that the kazmir for heilman/evans trade was cancelled. evans flunked his physical exam..
heilman was just a throw-in on the deal anyway
LMAO! A great and needed gag.
Go Rays, wait who plays 3rd base for us?
btw, we originally drafted mike pelfrey, & didnt sign, & then passed him over(as well as jay bruce, et al)for wade townsend, currently walking as many as he strikes out in low A…
as for kazmir—well, we drafted the al mvp, josh hamilton(after passing on josh beckett, of course), invested 10 million & 5 years in him, got him reinstated, & then left him off the 40-man, of which, 22 players are no longer on…
but we do have the best record in baseball…so maybe it’ll work out…
josh hamilton was no shawn abner, apprarently :o)
I’m already wearing my Reid Brignac jersey.
Travis Lee FTW!
No way I’m rooting for Ramon.. erm Raymond ;)
:(
I can’t wait til we call up Eva Longeria he’s like awesome!! Go Eva!!!
Can’t we make it the Marlins so I can overtly root for Jacobs? Or Minnesota so I can buy a Gomez jersey?
After last nights Mets game - time to get rigd of this joke. Lets go Mets!
In our division. Come on now.
Not until the Mets lose.
But we already have the orange jacket as a good luck charm.
You can never have enough good luck charms. Why would you want to get rid of this? What difference could it possibly make to you?
check out the video in this story:
http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080529&content_id=2795717&vkey=news_tb&fext=.jsp&c_id=tb
didn’t uncle cliffy play for the mets at one point in his career? i can’t remember..
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=280530130
another walk-off for the winged fish BABY!
speaking of wings…