#HMBlog: New Era's Tampa Bay Rays edition of ‘Local Market’ hat omits Tropicana Field’s 727 area code
Photo from New Era
The Tampa Bay Rays are on fire. They’ve won 11 straight and just took possession of first place in the AL East. Yes, there is still a lot of baseball to play but there is a buzz in St. Petersburg about their hometown team. Someone better tell that to New Era, the hat company who is the exclusive hat provider of Major League Baseball since 1993.
Each year, New Era puts out a “Local Market” edition of each baseball cities hometown. This year, the Rays cap features the state of Florida and the number 1998 in reference to the team’s inaugural season as well as Florida staples including a flamingo, a palm tree, and an orange. Also, the area code “813” is featured on the front of the cap. 813 which is centered on Tampa and includes surrounding communities such as Brandon, Land O’ Lakes, Oldsmar, Riverview, Thonotosassa, Town ‘n’ Country, Valrico and Zephyrhills.
The Rays play in St. Petersburg however, the 727 area code, which is not featured on the hat. The Rays may not be in St. Pete for long, with talks in process to redevelop the Trop site after the City of St. Pete and the Rays lease contract ends in 2027. However, for now, they reside in St. Pete, the 727! If nothing else, in the age of disinformation spreading across the internet, we need accuracy now more than ever. New Era needs to either fix this mistake or St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman needs to draft a militia to take over Tampa and surrounding area’s to win the battle of disinformation- either is fine with me.
#HMBlog: St. Pete Mayor Kriseman: Rays "Shared City" Talks Are Over
ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA - The chatter of sharing the Rays with our neighbors to the north are over (at least for a few years). This afternoon Mayor Rick Kriseman issued a letter detailing the end of negotiations with the Rays for their “shared city” concept. In which, the Rays would have played half the season in St. Petersburg and half in Montreal.
Major Takeaways from the letter:
The Rays will abide by the current deal and will play at the Trop full time, at least until 2028.
The Rays declined an offer to allow them to look for stadium site in the Tampa Bay area.
Kriseman won’t use public funds to build a stadium for a part-time team, but will consider it for a full-time one.
"I continue to believe that the Rays Organization will come to determine that the Tampa Bay area, and specifically St. Pete, remains the best place to play baseball and to succeed in the long term," Kriseman said in the letter.
What do you think about the letter and the team staying put? Comment below.
#HMBlog - Tampa Bay Rays explore plan to split home games between St. Petersburg & Montreal
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - As if we needed any more reasons to hate Canada, the Tampa Bay Rays announced today that they are exploring a plan to play some of the Rays home games in Montreal. According to ESPN, MLB’s attorney’s gave the okay to the plan in which the Rays would play the first half of the season in St. Petersburg and the second half north of the border in Montreal. The Rays issued a statement on Twitter confirming the plan:
So, it’s come to this…we should have bombed Canada once the Raptors won the NBA title like I wanted but instead we’ll have to share our baseball team like some single mom because you people wouldn’t go to games. The good news is that now us Floridan’s have an excuse to go vacation in Canada to see our boys. I hope we drive slow in the passing lane and we won’t tip.
What do you think about the plan? Comment below & let us know.
UPDATE: The plan appears to be dead according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times:
#HMBlog: Tropicana Field has a 36 minute power outage due to a fallen bird's nest.
Rays lose power for 36 minutes during the Rays-Angels game on 06/13/2019 at Tropicana Field.
It’s 2019, you can get your Amazon order in hours, send messages to your friends and family almost instantly with a computer that fits in your pocket and order a prostitute from an app but the power grid just hasn’t been figured out yet. Patrons at last night’s Rays game against the Angels had to deal with a 36 minute power outage (first world problem, I know) after a bird’s nest fell into Duke Energy’s Florida’s 16th Street substation three blocks away. I also lost power and my apartment for two minutes (don’t worry, I’m fine but it was a tough 2 minutes). The crowd pulled out their phone’s and turned on the flashlight between ordering prostitutes on the app and created a makeshift Van Halen concert which was pretty cool.
Even more impressive was the stout 15,000+ fans in attendance for the game, nice job community! No word on the baby birds in the nest but I think it’s safe to assume that they’re dead. :(
Rays First Base Coach Ozzie Timmons Clocks Fan Chugging a Brewski
You have to love this years Rays team, they’re exceeding expectations, winning games, lights out pitching, everything you could really want. It’s been a while since they’ve been a contender. The other thing I like about this team is that they seem fun. They’re young and energetic and just seem like they’re having a good time playing the game. That’s what Joe Maddon brought to the table and this coaching staff seems to have that same kind of feel. Let’s ask Ozzie Timmons, Rays First Base Coach who clocked a fan chugging a beer during the Miami trip last week.
I can beat that time Ozzie! I got next!
#HMB 279 - Rays Up, the Game is Rigged
The Homemade Broadcast this week, Rays baseball is back! Expectations are high buy will they make the playoffs? M’eh, I dunno, I don’t want to jinx them. A high profile activist For The People whose next cause is getting the minimum wage up to 15 dollars an hour here in Florida get’s called out by a local rag for not paying his employees 15 dollars an hour. The problem I found however is that they pay a third party company to take their inbound calls so the firm isn’t the one paying the workers directly. Some of these people are really, really bad at their jobs. And finally, Jussie Smollett gets 16 felony charges dropped out of the blue and don’t worry, there’s nothing fishy going at all, do not look behind the curtain.
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#HMB 261 - Happy Thanksgiving, Stupid Hockey Player Names, Racist vs Racial
The Homemade Broadcast this week: Happy Thanksgiving! I have you key to now getting sick, some good and bad Tampa Bay sports news & the difference between something being racial as opposed to racist.
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#HMB 254 - Cashing in on AL Manager of the Year & Judge Kava-Naw
This week on the podcast I get into why Kevin Cash deserves to be the Manager of the Year in Major League Baseball. It’s pretty simple really, he’s changed the game forever. The Opener is now going to be apart of the game as other teams adopted the strategy and the expectations of for the Rays were so low, they almost doubled their projected win total and nearly squeaked out that second Wild Card in a very competitive AL East. They would have won just about any other division in the MLB. Very impressive indeed, thanks for a great season, Rays!
Then, of course, we have to get into the Kavanaugh hearing. It’s so frustrating with how divided we are here in this country now. The Culture War is Civil War II and it’s fought almost entirely online. I hate it. Anyway, have a great week, cya later:
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#HMB 252 - Buc's Hot Start, Yzyerman Leaves Lightning & Divorce is Contagious?
The Homemade Broadcast this week: Buccaneers are off to a hot start, my friend's are old, Steve Yzerman says goodbye to the Lightning, remembering the 17th anniversary of 9-11 and a study says divorce is contagious?
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#HMB 243 - Rays & Ferry's...Ray Ferry, Attorney at Law.
#HMBradio Dome has a nice ring to it...
The Homemade Broadcast this week: will Tampa be getting that new proposed stadium site in Ybor city? I need some love advice & the CrossBay Ferry may be making a comeback by the end of the year, will you use it?
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#HMB 232 - Nerdy Tech Alert with Joe Davison (@joeygigglepants)
Joe Davison & your boy after recording 4/25/2018.
Kanye West, can you believe it? He's a traitor to many of you now. Most of you hate his guts now. He's a pariah, or an Uncle Tom or even privileged. His crime of course was saying that he liked the president. No, not the president of Syria or North Korea or anything but the president of America- our president. This, of course is a sin. Many on the left side of the political spectrum view it as a sin because politics has become a religion for them. There is something in human nature that needs a higher power, something to believe it. They've shunned God and replaced it with the State. People on the right typically have their Jesus, so they don't have room for another deity in their heart. Make fun of them all you want, because it's fun, but it's way less detrimental than people who worship the State, because the State is real. I see this weird hypocrisy everywhere. The orange Cheeto we have as president now is a racist, sexist, everyhing-ist and they are literally begging to disarm the populace. They can't seem to fathom how that may be an issue against their main narrative. My friends walk around with Obama earnings, even now, and lament about the good ol' days with their good pal Barry in office. He's the dad they always wanted because either their dad sucks or went and got a pack of smokes 25 years ago and never came back home. Is there anything more off-putting than liking the president? Maybe wearing a new leather jacket but that's about it. Did you like your principal too back in high school? Yuck. I like that Kanye West came out for Trump because it's sending these dorks into a god dang tizzy. He's such a big star, probably the most famous person in the world (aside from Trump) and he totally bitch-slapped these parishioners with a few tweets. He's Martin Luther nailing the reformation directly to these plebes heads and they scorn him for it. Can you imagine having to apologize for saying something like, "Black people don't have to be democrats." Well, Chance The Rapper had to earlier this week. The civil war is here, it's being fought online and those of us who stand up for individuality, free speech and free thought just got a new General. May he lead us to salvation and vanquish our enemies...although, he will probably end up in the loony-bin.
Anyhoo, local filmmaker and actor Joe Davison stopped by this week. He played the "Nerdy Tech" on Stranger Things 2 and has done a plethora of independent movies. He stopped by to talk about some new upcoming movies that are going into production this summer, a new board game he invented and the Jolt Production School he's apart of happening this May. Check out the pod:
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#HMB 222 - RaYbor City & Saint Valentine's Revenge with Joe Robertson
Having a blast celebrating Valentine's Day by myself: 2/14/2018.
Ah, love is in the air and it's making me nauseous to be quite frank. Nah, not really. The older I get the more sentimental I'm gradually becoming. I actually like holidays, they make the mundane a little more fun. Sure, they are remarkably hokey but any any sway from deviation is welcome at the adult pace of life. Even those holiday's that remind you just how alone you are in the world, like Valentine's Day can put a pep in your step as illogical as that sounds. This week on the podcast we're talking about the new love affair the Tampa Bay Rays seem to have with Ybor City as they announced early last week that they intend to move the team there and build a new stadium over there, no doubt on the taxpayer dime. I, for one, say goodbye and good luck. St. Pete and the Rays have had a intimate relationship for over 20 years and most marriages don't even last that long. It was a good run but as always with these types of things, someone is the pitcher and someone is the catcher. Someone is bound to get F-ed.
Joe Robertson from Taphouse 61 stops by this week to talk about the awkward firsts we've had in our love lives over the years and the one's that continue to happen on this weeks podcast.
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