Posts Tagged ‘Baseball’

Three Things You Never Knew About Baseball

Major League Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the USA – for many, it’s the national pastime. The top MLB stars command incredibly high salaries, and the money involved in each and every game is as astronomical as the interest from spectators all around the world. Every baseball fan knows the common […]

Hector Torres

Hector Torres

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (RSE)–Hitting coach Hector Torres made his mark in the baseball world early in life and it wasn’t helping the GCL Tampa Bay Rays prospects to hit a baseball.  A shortstop through-out his nine year major league career, Torres gained fame in his native Monterey, Mexico.  As a 12-year old Torres was the winning […]

Kennelly Rewarded For Excellent July

PRESS RELEASE Courtesy Clearwater Threshers  CLEARWATER, Fla. – For the second straight month and third time this season, a Clearwater position player has been named Phillies Minor League Player of the Month. Tim Kennelly earned July’s honor by notching a .388 batting average, tops among the Phillies’ minor league system.  The Australian native entered the […]

THE OTHER SIDE OF SPORTS (TOO)

CLEARWATER, Fl. (RSE)–Okay campers last offering we enlightened you in this fine publication about the good and generous side of the late Mr. George Steinbrenner.  Now how about showing the unintentional side of helping an individual move on towards one’s goal?  Well not really just prolong other’s agony. You see fans on July 27, 2002 […]

Syndergaard, Culver, Sanchez: Names to Watch

Syndergaard, Culver, Sanchez: Names to Watch

Dunedin Fla. (RSEN) – -It was a hot Florida Tuesday afternoon at the Toronto Blue Jays Englebert Complex in Dunedin; but what was hotter was the great baseball talent.  Three first round picks from this June’s MLB amateur draft were there today. For the NY Yankees SS Christopher “Cito” Culver the 32nd pick overall; for the Jays their […]

THE OTHER SIDE OF SPORTS (TOO)

With the passing last week at the ripe old generous age of 80 George Steinbrenner left behind a story or two ignored or cut for space concerns by the media..      One particular incident was during the Yankees first Tampa spring training in 1996 when the Yankees hosted the Toronto Blue Jays at then Legends […]

The Suspense was Killing Me!

I just looked at the box score from the 81st Annual MLB All-Star Game. I did not watch a pitch but I feel like I saw the whole game. Let me ask you, did this rival a World Cup soccer game? I mean come on, 3-1… what color was the paint? And was it a matte or a gloss finish?

Tampa Bay Rays

Tampa Bay Rays

I’m no psychiatrist but I do believe that the term bi-polar would be a safe way to describe our beloved Tampa Bay Rays. Why bi-polar you ask? Well, much like a person with multiple personality disorders, you just never know which team is going to show up on any given night.