20 Years of Rays Baseball (come to life)

Source: www.draysbay.com --- Sunday, December 31, 2017
What if the Tampa Bay Rays were an actual human being? We here at DRaysBay have been celebrating 20 Years of Rays Baseball all offseason, as 2017 represented the 20th season in which major league Baseball has been played under the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays franchise umbrella. The series got me thinking: What if the Rays were an actual human soon to be 20-year-old (birthdate: March 31, 1998)? It’s just about the slowest time in the offseason, so why not get a little ridiculous and imagine Mr./Ms. First Name: Tampa Bay, Last Name: Rays ( Middle Name: Devil? ). *** Writing this entire piece in he/she format would be as tedious to read as it would be to write. I’m biting the bullet and making our imaginary 19-year-old a young woman. Feel free to picture Mr./Ms. Tampa Bay Rays however you would like. *** Ms. Tampa Bay Rays graced the world with her birth on the aforementioned date of March 31, 1998. Her parents, Jack Lake and Vince Naimoli, had been trying to have a child for quite some time. Lake, in particular, had planted the seeds for young Ms. Tampa Bay all the way back in the 1960s, when he was a major proponent of any and all children Baseball in the St. Petersburg area. Ms. TBR — which we will call her from here on out — certainly wasn’t spoiled in her youth. In her earliest years, she was given some shoddy hand-me-downs from her parent’s previous generation, but these toys were closer to raggedy old than shiny new, and they qui ...

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