Exorcising the Devil

Posted by Paul Moro on Friday November 09th 2007, 11:04 am - filed in News reel

It’s official. In an attempt to freshen up and reliven their image - and presumably, make the team even more anonymous than it was already, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have changed their name to “Tampa Bay Rays“.  Some initial thoughts:

  1. So… Yeah… They’re just the Rays now… Sweet.
  2. No word yet on whether or not they will pursue Ray Durham, Ray Olmedo, Ray King, and Chris Ray during the off-season.
  3. Not only is the name unfathomably dull, their uniform is just as bad.
  4. For the life of me, I cannot think of a celebrity more fitting to appear on this dull occassion than the incredibly monotone Kevin Costner. And yes, his character in “Field of Dreams” was named Ray Kinsella. So he’s a Ray.

And now let’s all go do something a bit more interesting. Like, go watch someone try and guess all the flavors in a Whitman’s Sampler. I don’t know.


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