If the Rays were the name of a powder puff team, this might be acceptable
As if the Tampa Bay Rays couldn’t produce a clearer example of how quickly a bandwagon can fill up . . . at least bring some friggin’ originality with it, people!
Sure, the franchise has occupied the American League’s cellar since its arrival in 1998. (Seems like visiting fans found that cellar rather easily). And yes, there’s no hiding the fact that attendance — although still spotty amidst this season’s AL East title run — has soared up quicker than a 14-year-old’s erection while watching Mean Girls.
But at least with today’s “Demographic of Tampa Males That Suddenly Give A Shit About Baseball” should come some witty spunk and originality.
MLB stadiums have always produced the ideal canvas for young and old fans to display their snark and witty comments. So why is Tampa still a third world country when it comes to being funny?
Why? Because any team that remakes Jeff Foxworthy quotes into jumbotron deserves immediate contraction.
Jeff Foxworthy, you are not funny in person, and you are certainly not funny on the Trop's jumbotron. And neither are Rays fans.
Is this t-shirt from the MIT student section?
I would rather stare directly into the sun for six hours than these three joke shows.
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Is that The Rich Jerk in the last picture?
those cowbells have to go, very irritating. But when I told a fellow Sox fan of theses horrid bells his response was “How would the men find their wives?’
[...] way, we’ve been pretty consistent with documenting the douches that dub themselves fans. (Exhibit A, Exhibit [...]
The Trop plays a lot of clips on the jumbotron, most not as lame. How about Billy Zane in Zoolander saying “its a walkoff” or Drama’s “Victory?”
Typical for bloggers to chastise Rays fans for being bandwagon jumpers. Anyone remember when it was easy to get Red Sox season tickets? Why won’t anyone just give this small new franchise the respect that’s due, and lay off their fans. This same thing occurred in 1995 for the Seattle Mariners, and now they’re one of the best fan bases in the country and extend across its entirety.
And the fact you’re poking fun at people in pictures, scoreboard videos, and cowbells is just idiocy. This can be said about any ballpark in the league. The Cubs will have their goats, the Brewers have their Sausage races, the Phillies have their fair share of dumb jingles, slogans, and stole their towels from the neighboring Steelers.
Just because the Rays front office did a much better job than anyone else in baseball this year doesn’t mean you need to get jealous of their success. Their fans, from what I’ve met, are just as dedicated as any others, and they’ve picked up a lot more with their recent success. Instead of poking fun at their new fan base, what we should be doing is hoping other small market teams (Pirates, Marlins, Royals, etc.) can follow in this franchises footsteps and show the MLB that you don’t need 100 million dollar payrolls and arogant superstars to bring home a League Championship.
“The Rays front office did a much better job than anyone else in baseball this year”? what a joke. anyone could do a good job with 17 first round draft picks. this article is about rays fans being bandwagon jumping d-bags pretending they’re long-suffering and passionate when they don’t know jack shit about baseball and probably can’t name 2/5 of their starting rotation.
and the marlins, pirates, royals aren’t going to follow in the Rays’ footsteps! The Marlins won two world series in a 10 year span and still get like 18,000 fans per game. give me a break.
Rays fans are allowed to get excited about their team, just not in an “i’m better than you” way that makes them seem like total phonies. stop banging your goddamn cowbell and pay attention to the friggin’ baseball game.