It's no 9=8:  "What's Important Now" is the 2010 Rays' slogan.
At least the Fox Sports broadcasters would get it right if the team moved to Tampa.
Rays might have to get bold with Crawford .
Break up the AL East
Five questions about the Rays

 

Get your Rays single game tickets today 

Only at Raysbaseball.com.  If you want to buy from somewhere else, wait until tomorrow.

Hope is in the air.
Change is too:  Rays halt contract talks with C.C.

Price armed with confidence.  And a closer.
Longoria pumped:  2010 is best Rays squad since....2008.
Government math.

Put me in coach:  John Fogerty to play at the Trop.
Trade watch:  No rumors yet, and Crawford not yet annoyed with it.
Crawford: 'hoping for the best.'
Big Papi complaining about the negativity in the Boston Media.  Hey Papi, try out the Tampa media apathy.
Pena already missing playing in Tampa Bay.
Nobody is still talking about the Tampa Bay Rays

Finally, some news from Spring camp...
Crawford's last tour?
Physical Specimen?  Upton matured, put on 7 pounds of muscle.

Facebook update:  Rays break 100,000 fans.  

Become a fan today.
Cowbell Posse on Facebook

Price gets lasik - would have worked for Rick Vaughn. 

Sick Closer?  Soriano's first day ends early.

More Tampa Rays talk

Sternberg: Rays won't be at the Trop through the end of their lease.

Go see the Rays while they are good.  Sternberg: Payroll will drop in 2011

 Perfect Record:  Rays 5-0 in arbitration.

Crawford driven to steal more bases. 
All Access Part I, Part II

Tribune: 5 Rays to watch

Rays go to arbitration with Upton today, over 10% of his $3million salary. 

Best looking Upton?  Right here.

Telling Statistic?  Red Sox approaching 1 million Facebook fans.  Rays at 99,000 and holding.

52 days until Opening Day

If the Trop is really the 5th worst stadium in baseball, how did the guy who runs it earn this Lifetime Achievement Award? 

 

Page 2: Selig statue is a bad idea.

Something stinks?  Naming of Rays' Spring home after world's largest phosphate company put on hold.

 

Rays release new 2010 alternate jersey on MLBshop.com.  Then they don't. 

Comeback?  Pat the Bat hopes to hit more home runs than Aubrey Huff this year.

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All around the country, Major League fans are getting excited by the best harbinger of spring...Truck Day.  That's the day when teams pack their gear into some nondescript 18 wheeler and head south for Spring Training.  

Do the Rays even have a truck?  Or do just they toss some gear into Pat Burrell's Escalade and drive across the Sunshine Skyway?

Fantasy: Desmond Jennings may be the best fantasy prospect in 2010.

 

The Oren Koules era is over in Tampa Bay

Lightning value sinking as fast as your home value under OK Hockey.

Let your friends know -- you can go watch the Lightning now.

Remember the 16 games when Barry Melrose was the coach?

Meet your new owner.  Some rich dude with $110 million laying around. 

Maybe now they'll go from being just OK to Great.  We'll probably be happy with good.

Upton Brothers visit the Hot Stove

 

NY Post: A-Rod on a dating frenzy

The many loves of A-Rod

Rays Spring home gets new name.  Mosaic Field at Charlotte Sports Park.  Mosaic who?

If the Padres put you on waivers, can you really be any good?

Chastain thinks Rays have few question marks.

Vote for your Rays all-time 9.

 

Rays Index: Why Evan Longoria’s Contract Could Come Back To Haunt The Rays

C.C. $abathia makes as much as the Rays entire starting rotation.  In 10 weeks.

Olney: Tampa's loaded youth movement

Navarro planning to bust his tail at spring training.

No news is good news?  Nothing on the Rays from the Times or the Tribune in 2 days.

Sasso:  Bullet Train could drop you off at Rays games - only if they move to downtown Tampa. 

Rays need a new PA announcer.  Before you apply, make sure you don't sound like this guy.

Way to go, MLB.  Limit competition and destroy a hobby, all in the name of profits.

Business Week Power 100:  Longoria.  "Longoria is one of just two male athletes on the list not to bring in at least seven figures (he can thank the MLB pay scale for that), yet many consider the second-year pro to be the best at his position—topping even fellow power athletes A-Rod and David Wright. Combined with his marketable face, that should spell big bucks down the road."

Baseball Prospectus:  Rays to finish 1st in East miss the playoffs.  Topkin