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Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Ceetar Sep 08 2017 06:41 PM

Rays were so excited about getting to come to Citi in 2018 that they decided to come this year too. They'll play, as the home team, next week. Apparently MLB was motivated to choose this venue because it only required hotels for the Rays and not their opponents.

seawolf17 Sep 08 2017 06:45 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

I would totally go, except it's the MFYs. Eff that. If the Rays were fighting for a playoff spot, they'd be within their rights to be upset about their competitors getting three bonus home games.

Ceetar Sep 08 2017 06:46 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

seawolf17 wrote: I would totally go, except it's the MFYs. Eff that. If the Rays were fighting for a playoff spot, they'd be within their rights to be upset about their competitors getting three bonus home games. I'd go except for the young kids thing. Just to offset the balance of the Yankees fans defiling the place with their filthy cheering. and also because last-minute mid-week back to school and the games are probably going to be fairly empty and it's fun to have the run of the place like that.

Edgy MD Sep 08 2017 06:48 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Baltimore would have been great. It would have been payback of sorts for the time Tampa/St. Pete hosted the O's as the home team during the Baltimore riots, and O's fans would have been in the strange position of rooting like heck for a team a game and a half behind them in the standings.

G-Fafif Sep 08 2017 06:49 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Gonna need a heavy-duty cleaning afterward.

bmfc1 Sep 08 2017 06:49 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Duda can't stay away from us!

HahnSolo Sep 08 2017 06:52 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

With this, the MFYs will play 17 of their last 20 (including six with Tampa) games in NYC.

G-Fafif Sep 08 2017 07:03 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Apparently MFYS III was already booked for a human sacrifice or some such event, thus the need to find a real ballpark.

Gwreck Sep 08 2017 07:19 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Rays are in Boston this weekend. MFYs in Texas. Both teams scheduled to be at home when the series is over. They should be playing this in Cincinnati, not New York.

Gwreck Sep 08 2017 07:26 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

seawolf17 wrote: If the Rays were fighting for a playoff spot, they'd be within their rights to be upset about their competitors getting three bonus home games. They're 3.5 games out! Not exactly out of it.

Mets Willets Point Sep 09 2017 01:35 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Flushing Bay Rays.

Frayed Knot Sep 09 2017 01:39 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

All seats $25, go on sale starting Sat morning.

HahnSolo Sep 09 2017 02:31 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

I feel like the Rangers got a lot more grief about not swapping home series with the Astros during Harvey. I mean, the Rays do come back to YS the last week, why can't the Yanks just swap the two series?

Chad Ochoseis Sep 09 2017 02:58 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Would be cool if the 7 Line Army bought up some tickets and rooted for the Rays. All seats for $25 = all seats $25? Including Delta Club and other luxury field level seats?

Mets Willets Point Sep 09 2017 02:59 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

I would totally go and root for the Rays if I lived in New York.

G-Fafif Sep 09 2017 04:28 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

If I read the press release correctly, they're only bothering with Field Level seats.

Frayed Knot Sep 09 2017 11:11 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

HahnSolo wrote: I feel like the Rangers got a lot more grief about not swapping home series with the Astros during Harvey. I mean, the Rays do come back to YS the last week, why can't the Yanks just swap the two series? Because they're the Yanquis, they don't alter their plans for other teams, other teams accommodate them.

SteveJRogers Sep 09 2017 12:53 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Wonder if a home uni wearing Duda would get the Strawberry Apple treatment if he hit one out? The way the Shea Apple came halfway out for Straw back in 1998 when the MFYs sullied Shea vs the Angels when beams were falling down in The Death Star II.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 09 2017 01:04 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Off on Wednesday. Hmm. HMM.

Frayed Knot Sep 09 2017 06:05 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Frayed Knot wrote: I feel like the Rangers got a lot more grief about not swapping home series with the Astros during Harvey. I mean, the Rays do come back to YS the last week, why can't the Yanks just swap the two series? Because they're the Yanquis, they don't alter their plans for other teams, other teams accommodate them. As it turns out: [NY Times]: switching series with Tampa "was never seriously considered because of previously scheduled events in [YSIII]", namely a soccer game which is to be played today but that requires time for re-sodding afterward, plus there's a food convention/trade show on Tuesday & Wednesday.

Mets Willets Point Sep 09 2017 06:17 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

I feel like Yankees fans should have to pay more for tickets than Tampa Bay & neutral fans, just to make it fair. Yes, I know there's no practical way of doing this.

Frayed Knot Sep 12 2017 12:49 AM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

The Rays are disgracing our field vs the Yanx - which is pretty much what we did on our field as well. The worst part is that it's tied at 1 with two outs and the Rays commit an error to give the Yanx the lead and keep the inning going, then Ellsbury "accidentally" hits the catcher's glove for his record-breaking* 30th time, which was of course followed by a 3R HR The Rays bunted on Sabathia in the 1st inning - apparently without seeking permission first. No word on whether the Yanx have filed a complaint with MLB, or with the World Court in The Hague, or whether Hillary has added this to her list of things responsible for her loss last November. * Ellsbury broke the tie he was in with Pete Rose, only that Pete had almost exactly triple the number of plate appearances.

MFS62 Sep 14 2017 02:58 PM Re: Rays to play at Citi Field in 2017 as well!

Anyone else notice that Cesar Puello was playing left field for the Rays? I knew my kid would make it to CitiField one day. I just never thought it would be that way. Later