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  U.S. singer Lady Gaga speaks during a news conference in Taipei July 4, 2011. Lady Gaga will be in Taiwan from July 1-5 to promote her latest album “Born This Way”. REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN – Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) The Rays are promoting the August weekend series against the Oakland A’s as the Go-Go Goo-Goo [...]

The Rays picked up another win last night, guaranteeing the series split with the Tigers. The Rays scored 3 runs, while only collecting 5 hits. Carlos Pena was 1 for 3 with a 2 run homer. Matt Joyce was 1 for 3 with a RBI double, the one that proved to be the game winning run. [...]

3 Up / 3 Down vs. Brian Tallet

Posted: 1st June 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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3 up… Carl Crawford – 7 for 15 with three doubles and six RBI. Dioner Navarro – 6 for 15 with three RBI. Ben Zobrist – 5 for 11 with a home run and three RBI. 3 down… Carlos Pena – 2 for 13 with three RBI. Evan Longoria – 4 for 9 with three [...]

3 Up / 3 Down vs. Brandon Morrow

Posted: 31st May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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  [picappgallerysingle id="8669057"]  3 up… Hank Blalock – 4 for 6 with two home runs and four RBI Evan Longoria – 2 for 5 John Jaso – 1 for 2 with two RBI 3 down… Reid Brignac – 0 for 4 with three strikeouts Carlos Pena – 0 for 4 with two strikeouts Carl Crawford [...]

3 Up / 3 Down vs. Jake Peavy

Posted: 30th May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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  [picappgallerysingle id="8870175"]3 up… Ben Zobrist – 2 for 2 with a double and an RBI Carlos Pena – 2 for 4 with an RBI Reid Brignac - 1 for 3 with two RBI 3 down… Carl Crawford – 1 for 6 with 4 K’s Evan Longoria – 0 for 3 with a strikeout John Jaso [...]

3 Up / 3 Down vs. John Danks

Posted: 29th May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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  [picappgallerysingle id="1547961"]3 up… Dioner Navarro – 5 for 13 with two doubles and a stolen base (!). Carl Crawford – 4 for 15 with a home run Willy Aybar – 2 for 8 — both hits were doubles 3 down… Ben Zobrist – 0 for 7 with three strikeouts BJ Upton – 1 for [...]

3 Up / 3 Down – vs. Freddy Garcia

Posted: 28th May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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  [picappgallerysingle id="8844382"]Up… Hank Blalock – 10-32 with three home runs Carl Crawford – 6-16 with one home run and three SB’s. BJ Upton – 1-3 with a stolen base Down… Carlos Pena – 4-33 with nine strikeouts Jason Bartlett –  0-5 Ben Zobrist – 0-3 And then there’s Durham’s Ryan Shealy.  He would look good [...]

No secrets, I’m a fantasy baseball nut.  I’ve got ten teams as of this writing on Yahoo! and I’ll probably get to twelve before the season starts.  But, one of the leagues I’m most looking forward to is a league that is dedicated to owning a favorite team. That’s right, I own the Tampa Bay Rays.  I [...]

What If?: Albert Pujols

Posted: 16th March 2010 by Devon Rogers in Fantasy Baseball
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I was recently reading the latest copy of ESPN Magazine. I saw an interesting tidbit about the Rays and Albert Pujols. Apparently, the Rays were the first team to find Pujols, while he was playing in junior college. They gave him a tryout, and whoever the scout was for the Rays, walked away unimpressed. You [...]

Rise of the Rays Fantasy Baseball

Posted: 15th March 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball
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  [picappgallerysingle id="2041097"]Saturday night was the draft for the first annual Rise of the Rays Fantasy Baseball league.  As luck would have it, I ended up with Albert Pujols.  Somewhere, someone figured that if there had been a league last year, I would have finished in last, so I was given the first pick. As [...]