World Series Rooting Interest Poll Rays vs Phillies

[Guest AG/DC]

Well, I guess if Ed Charles is with the Rays, that's good enough for me.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/21/s6-how-do-you-explain-a-miracle/

[Valadius]

From a Yahoo Sports article on the Rays, with the help of Rays backup catcher Shawn Riggans:

]Cliff Floyd, the grand old man on this team (36 in December), has his own customized purple bowling ball that he calls �Purple Thunder.� There were rumors that Floyd, like former pitcher John Burkett, might take a run at the Pro Bowlers Tour, but he killed that one quickly Tuesday. �Hell no,� he said. Don�t let him fool you, Riggans said. The man is dangerous with his thumb lodged in a ball. �If you saw the magazine from the Players� Choice awards,� Riggans said, �Cliff was in there with his bowling shirt and customized ball. At the University Bowl, near where I live, he rolled a 300 game. His picture is up on the wall.� Floyd and closer Troy Percival, the other dominant veteran presence on the club, combined to unite this team like never before, Riggans said, and not for a bowling tournament. �They both shoot you straight,� he said. �This team used to be a little cliquish; now we�re one big family. Cliff and Percy have been huge for us.�

[Centerfield]

My only rooting interest in this series is for Philadelphia to be weakened for 2009. I haven't quite figured out how that can happen.

Part of me wants them to win it all and hope they can get lackadaisical. Their free-agents to be can become World Series heroes, get overhyped, and price themselves into a range where the Phillies can't afford to bring them back.

Another part of me thinks that the best thing that can happen is for Brad Lidge to be perfect all season long then give up an absolute bomb to blow Game 7, have him go back into a funk and be completely worthless next year.

Or they could win it all, and in the celebratory pileup, have Cole Hamels blow out his elbow and Chase Utley blow out his achilles.

[Guest AG/DC]

They can also come close but lose, and overcompensate with some panicky offseason moves.

[metirish]

Pat Gillick is retiring after the WS so that's a blow for them.

[Guest themetfairy]

This makes me like Garza - LOL

]Matt Garza takes an exaggerated leap over the foul line on his way to the mound for the Tampa Bay Rays. He scales the granules of white chalk as if he were jumping over a fire hydrant because he thought it looked cool when he saw Turk Wendell do it more than a decade ago. �Been doing it since Little League,� Garza said.