Does it make us mean people if we bought a few of these for the Red Sox fans in our lives? We love reminding them that the Rays have as many AL East titles in the last 11 years as the Red Sox and the Rays only sucked for 10 years, not 86.

Sometimes the stars align in such a manner, that we all have to just sit back in awe and admire the power. The Rays are in the ALCS against the hated Red Sox. This was the perfect time to conduct a Hajj and journey to our Mecca.

The good news is we will be in attendance for both games 1 and 2. The bad news is that there will not be any Live Blog-A-Baloos unless Marc Topkin let's us borrow his laptop.

ROADTRIP TO THE TROP! And all RAYSHEADS are welcome to join us.

WHEN: Saturday October 10. ALCS Game 2 versus the Boston Red Sux

WHERE: Pre-gaming at Ferg's Sports Bar (4 pm).

Check the Twitter updates in the sidebar for updates and more specifics.

The following post is not baseball related. If this bothers you, please do not read. "The Hangover" will be up shortly, and we can all get back to more important matters...kicking the Sox asses.

I would much prefer to discuss this in the comments section at DRays Bay, but I cannot. I have been banned from commenting at DRays Bay. Seriously. Why? Apparently because I disagreed with the author and tried to have a discussion on the matter within the comments section of their site.

For the few of you that actually give a crap, you can see the entire thread HERE.

The worst thing I said was to point out that 29 general managers disagreed with the author. In return I was falsely accused of plagiarism by Editor-In-Chief RJ Anderson.

Also nice touch on the GM line. Completely original, did you see that one on Deadspin too?--R.J. Anderson implying that everything on Rays Index is stolen/copied from Deadspin.com. This is not the first time I have been accused of this by R.J. Anderson.

Later I was referred to as "numbnuts" by the same guy ("Vin") who is apparently worthy of being a comment moderator.

You have your own blog for that, numbnuts--Vin's response to my assertion that "I was just trying to talk baseball"

The "D" must stand for "Irony".

Over the years I have been openly critical of DRays Bay on about 4 or 5 occasions. Most of the times that we disagreed with assertions that they made about baseball-related matters, our policy has been to limit our disagreements to the comments section on DRays Bay. Even the times when they stated something that was blatantly wrong, I chose to comment on their site, rather than nitpick their posts on this site.

Only a handful of times in three years have I felt that they wrote something that required me to step away from that policy. Those were usually for the times when they stepped away from talking about baseball. Like the time one writer called Rays fans "dumb" or another time when a writer called Rays fans "morons". And one time we poked a little fun at them for their dramatic decision to commit themselves to the Rays new color scheme.

That is three posts out of several thousand posts on DRays Bay in the past three years.

On the other hand we have posted positive or neutral reactions to their site hundreds of times. One time we even dedicated an entire post to defending RJ Anderson against some belittling comments made by a member of the mainstream media.

I expressed my concerns about the above comments on DRays Bay to RJ Anderson in an email. His response was to ban me from the site. So now if there is a post on DRays Bay that I feel needs a comment, correction or clarification, I will have to find a new venue to make my point. I will have to post any future comments in a more public forum. Here.

As they say...The gloves have come off.

Due to a number of unfortunate factors, we have yet to attend a Tampa Bay Rays game this season at The Trop. This bothers us to no-end, especially everytime somebody bashes recent attendance figures. It has been difficult for us to remain quiet for the fear of sounding like a hypocrite since we are such big fans and yet we haven't found our way back to St. Pete yet this season to support the boys.

Well, it is time to rectify this clusterf***. Sometimes the stars align in such a manner, that we all have to just sit back in awe and admire the power...In less than a month "Mrs. Professor" will officially become Mrs. Professor. A few of my close friends and I have been discussing how best to celebrate the end of my long and storied bachelorhood.

Vegas was the consensus..."CLICHE!" I yelled.

No. This was the perfect time to conduct a Hajj and journey to our Mecca...Mind you, I am the only Rays fan in the group, and I had to suffer through much whining, but the asses were kissed and back-alley favors were conducted and the trip is now official. ROADTRIP TO THE TROP! And all RAYSHEADS are welcome to join us.

WHEN: Saturday June 21. Rays v Houston Astros

WHERE: Pre-gaming at Ferg's Sports Bar (4 pm). Party Deck in left field during the game.