Florida Alert: Tampa Bay to remove "Devil" from pro baseball team's name

[TeddyKGB]

http://deadspin.com/sports/the-uniforms-were-the-problem-all-along/nowhere-to-go-but-up-for-the-rays-302978.php

"Yes, the Devil Rays, as you know them, are gone. They are now the Tampa Ray Rays. Because the devil is evil."

(No, this is not a joke.)

[Cha]

1. Well, it is a word conotated with evil and

I'm not surprised it slipped past their dumbasses.

[Sequoia]

2. My high school team was the Blue Devils in NC.

[BringEmOn]

3. Wow...the devil is out....now, when will the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves,

and Washington Redskins become unacceptable?

[Solly Mack]

4. wow...it's like watching the idiot olympics

there has to be a contest for biggest idiot...

the various stories - of mind numbingly dumb actions - are actually the official events in the idiot olympics

[Johonny]

5. In all fairness

The team has sucked since it's start. ANYTHING to try to convince fans that it's a different team can't hurt marketing.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Since Jesus is apparently intimately involved with the outcome of so many sports events

this sorta makes sense. :shrug:

[Tesha]

7. And just in case this made your satire detector go "boink!"...

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/06/Rays/Devil_Rays_may_play_n.shtml

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Time for some yummy chocolatey Duncan Hines Food Cake!

Or sumfin...

:eyes:

[InternalDialogue]

9. And you can clean up the crumbs with your Dirt handheld vac.

Not me, though. I have a may-care attitude.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. The You Say!

hehe

[Hobarticus]

13. I'd say "come or high water" but that may be even worse than the original...

Sorry, it was all I could come up with.

[Hobarticus]

10. A picnic, yay! I'll bring the Eggs!

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. I'll bring the Ham!

:D

[Bryn]

14. Unbelievable!

Why are we scared of mythologic devil?

:evilgrin:

[B3Nut]

15. Because we might get roasted!

Dontcha know that we all deserve to burn in hell forever from the moment we're born because a rib-woman took advice from a talking snake? We have to avoid that talking snake! :D :D :D

(and yes, that's Paul's/Augustine's/Calvin's myth of Original Sin in a nutshell...)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[abq e streeter]

16. You fellow geezer/baseball fans

probably remember the Cincinnati Redlegs... For you younger viewers: for a few years in the 50's the Reds became the Redlegs to avoid the perfectly understandable confusion that a National League baseball team might be made up of communists.

[smokey nj]

17. Does this mean that Devil Dogs will heretofore be known as Dog Dogs?

[WillyT]

18. You People Just Crack Me Up !!!

BTW - I had no idea this was Tim Curry!

:evilgrin: