This…

is not helping. Really, was a kleenex inducing ad necessary? You look way too cute in the picture and what’s with all the niceness? This would be way easier if you would just say “later sucka.” Just go be with your new buds. You can dance with Papelbon, hunt with Beckett, use Pedroia’s head as an arm rest, and feel free to smack Youkilis in the dugout. I think it’s customary.

Yes, please smack Youkilis in the dugout! Maybe it’ll make that stupid beard come off!
Don’t slap Youk’s beard off; I’ve seen it, it ain’t pretty. :/
I came here by way of MLBTR, and I can totally relate – the Mets got my favorite player this year during the Vegas meeting, and this season will just not be the same without him. Keep your chin up – you have a great team to be proud of, and I think the Rays will do well again this year.
This is becoming a bizarre trend. First Kerry Wood, now Baldelli. It’s nice and all, it’s just a little weird to take out an ad like that. But nice.
And hey, at least you have winning to look forward to. The same cannot be said for fans of other teams that have been around for 130 years longer than the Rays.
Take it from a Sox fan that Youk without the beard is much worse than Youk with the beard. He is not a pretty man. At least the goat gives the man some personality, and it acts as a sponge for all that sweat.
More Hardball wants to know who has the hottest fans in baseball. We’ll be running a set of posts over the following weeks featuring images of each teams’ hotties, with a voting poll to crown a champion. We’re starting with the AL East and we’ll continue through the rest of the American League, then on to the National League. Sticking true to Major League Baseball’s roots, there will be an eight team playoff system where the winners of each division square off with addition of a wild card team to determine who wins the pennant and represents each league in the World Series of Hotness. Link-http://morehardball.blogspot.com/2009/01/hottest-fans-of-al-east_29.html