WVU & Karns Alumni. I’ve watched my teams win 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆championships RIP brother 🙏🏽💚🖤 All opinions are my own! #GBO Bucs, lightning, rays, lakers
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Ryan ! retweeted
Some parting thoughts before I hit the road: this season was the most fun I've ever had watching the Rays. Being a part of Rays Twitter™️has been so fun- I never knew that this account was going to end up like this when I started it up at the end of last summer. At the beginning of this season I had 160~ followers and now all ten Rays fans know who I am.
My dad died of brain cancer in February. I think I have been using baseball season to cope and now that it's over I'm gonna try and face the music. I definitely got carried away with this account in the process, but it was fun and I don't regret anything. Some time in my own head, focusing on some hobbies will be great.
I will see you guys next season. Friendly reminder that I am Yankeesfiles father. Keep PECOPING brothers 🙏
Ryan ! retweeted
Shaquille O'Neal pays emotional tribute to Ernie Johnson following his retirement announcement
"When I was a youngster, there were three guys as a basketball fan I loved to hear talk: Bill Raftery, Dick Vitale, and Ernie Johnson."
"I got the opportunity to come here and work for you, and I only came here because you were here. You are the controller of this thing people call a circus."
"Without you, it's going to be very, very difficult. I never thought this day would happen."
"I appreciate you, I love you, and thank you. We've had a lot of great years together, and thank you for everything, brother."
Ryan ! retweeted
If that’s his last outing of the year, what an amazing season for Bryan Baker.
41 regular season saves. 1.44 ERA.
10 postseason innings. 0 runs allowed.
One of the best relief pitching seasons in Rays history.
Ryan ! retweeted
The Rays made a heck of a run in 2026. The team was given just a 1.1% chance to make the World Series at the start of the season and made it all the way to the Fall Classic. There, they ran into a Brewers team that swept the back-to-back World Series champion Dodgers and just won the first championship in franchise history. Milwaukee had the National League Cy Young award winner in Jacob Misiorowski and two of the best World Series performances ever from 22-year-olds in Jackson Chourio and Cooper Pratt, while William Contreras was unstoppable. We don't know what's ahead for the 2027 season, but it was so fun watching the Tampa Bay Rays compete this year. With the talent already on the roster and how deep their farm system is, this team is going to be good for a very long time. Thank you guys for supporting my work this season.
Ryan ! retweeted
Well, this is the end of the road for @RaysBaseball in 2026.
Congratulations to the Brewers. As painful as it is to say, you were the best team in the postseason and deserved to win the series.
It’s easy to be angry right now and point fingers. I’m not going to do that. Absolutely no one expected anything out of the Rays this season. They exceeded every expectation. It was a wild ride and I loved every minute of it.
Of course, I’m disappointed with how it ended, but I guarantee you the players and coaches are more disappointed than we are. Only one team can truly be happy at the end of the season.
The future is very bright. New owners. A new @RaysForeverHome. Maybe a rebranding of some kind? And a young, talented team that will only get better with time.
Thank you, Rays, for a great 2026 season. See you in 2027!
#RaysUp #ForTampaBay
Ryan ! retweeted
The Atlantic is the only NHL division without a single club under .500 points percentage:
Boston, .792
TB, .682
Ottawa, .667
Montreal, .636
Florida, .583
Toronto, .571
Detroit, .542
Buffalo, .500
Ryan ! retweeted
Not too long ago, you’d have to ask restaurants to turn on Rays games. Seeing a concentration of people wearing Rays gear meant you were probably at a game.
Those days are long gone.
That’s what these types of seasons do.
We’ve been blessed with so many of them since 2008.
Went to dinner in the neighborhood and squeezed in a fun Halloween event, before running back home for Game 5.
We started counting how many people were wearing Rays hats, jerseys or shirts. We lost count. Easily over 100 just from our table.
Every restaurant we walked by had the game on.
Yes, this is absolutely how it should be, but this area is saturated with non-natives who’ve relocated and kept their existing allegiance.
The fanbase is still the youngest in baseball, having only existed since 1998, but it’s growing and growing fast. So is the passion and the pride.
That’s what these types of seasons do.
Ryan ! retweeted
Former Rays in attendance last night: Evan Longoria, Carlos Peña, Carl Crawford, Kevin Kiermaier, Brett Phillips, Chris Archer, Tyler Glasnow, Pete Fairbanks, Zach Eflin. It’s probably also safe to assume Matt Joyce and Grant Balfour were there as Rays TV employees, BJ Upton has been at many postseason games this year, Randy Arozarena came to the ALCS, James Shields and Joe Maddon were at the game Monday. Former Rays LOVE their country TAMPA BAY 🥰
Ryan ! retweeted
Man, people really don’t get Tampa.
Tampa is a sports tourism city.
Example: Packer fans flock to Tampa for sun and a mini-vacay when the Packers play the Bucs.
Tampa is also a city where only 1/3 of population is FROM Tampa.
So there will always be transplants that want to go see their “first love” team.
I’ve lived in Chicago, NYC, Philly.
Tampa is as good a sports town as the others, but people see Cub fans en masse when Rays and Cubs play and think “Tampa is a bad sports town”. That’s lazy and uneducated.
Also, Rays ain’t dead yet!
#WorldSeries #WorldSeries2026
Ryan ! retweeted
If the Rays win Game 5 tonight, they’ll be the first team ever to win 2 World Series games on the same day.
(as long as the game doesn’t go past midnight again)
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For those who don’t follow @RaysBaseball, you'll often see former players come back to watch and cheer on the Rays, even while they’re playing for other teams.
The Rays are a tight-knit organization that means a lot to so many people. Many of these great players were coached and developed here, and they still have love for the team that helped shape their careers. Showing up to support their old teammates is a reflection of that bond.
It doesn’t hurt one bit. If anything, it says a lot about the culture the Rays have built.
