Staff Blog
Getting the Devil Out
Until this year Tampa’s professional baseball team called themselves the “Devil Rays” after the large, ferocious fish native to the region. It made enough sense, the Mantas have like 300 rows of tiny teeth, each about the size of the head of a pin. Check on out:
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That’s pretty serious.
However, due to religious nutjobs doing what they do best (ruining fun), this offseason the Tampa organization opted to drop the ‘Devil’ from their name, changing their name only to the ‘Rays.’
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Which is decidedly less gangsta. To make matters worse, the owner’s have attempted to capitalize on this ambiguity. The team’s logo is no longer a sick killer fish. Instead it is, in their words, a “beacon that radiates throughout Tampa Bay and across the entire state of Florida”.
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Look, I realize that until someone can give me a definitive answer as to just what a ‘Phillie’ is I don’t really have a leg to stand on, but a radiating beacon? Seriously? No wonder they disappear when the pressure is on.
