Canadian Thanksgiving

Thank you to our Canadian friends and those who came from across the U.S. to aid and help from Canada to the Florida area post-Milton

Halifax Explosion

Tropicana Field – shredding of the roof

The rays in the aqua tank survived and have been moved to the Aquarium

Revisit the Tampa Bay Rays timeline on when & where they could have moved

If the City of St. Pete had not signed with the Rays, It would have given MLB & Rays ownership ability to move the Tampa Bay Rays to another city

What will Rays and Florida do to make the region better and stronger to withstand some of the force from future weather

Tampa General Hospital - AquaWall

Building new houses & structures with new hurricane building codes

Netherlands model in building dikes as a prevention to hurricanes

Water levels rising will create more difficulties for the future

Climate change choosing to acknowledge

What impact has Milton had on Spring Training, recreation & Little League fields

All-American Women’s Classic in Durham, NC – top female athletes

Looking forward to seeing more opportunities for women in baseball

Jean Fruth – capturing moments in the game See Her, Be Her - Documentary to run between Game 2 & Game 3 of World Series

World Series ex-Rays who are in the postseason, Brent Honeywell, Phil Maton, Alex Cobb, etc, etc

Kevin Kiermaier with the Dodgers, Tommy Pham with the Mets, Kyle Manzardo with the Guardians, Jake Cronenworth with the Padres

Big dollars have built some of the final teams in the postseason

Most fans want to see the Dodgers in the World Series

Outside of Guardians it looks like big spenders will be the only ones at the World Series table

AAGPBL – used to rebuild teams each season to balance out talent between teams

MLB rule changes have been at the benefit of the larger teams – penalties for overspending has been minimal.

Team ownership of Green Bay Packers & Atlanta Braves allows individuals to buy into the team. Not just one sole ownership of the team

The Public Trust of newspapers historically, and good objective reporting

News is supposed to be based in fact – has news been vetted by enough sources – looking beyond the self-contained glass bubble

Today several “news” operations have been purchased by owners with a political interest and use these as a tool to promote their view of the world. “Experts” are not always experts.

Many sports news outlets do not have someone covering the Rays.

Sources of information should be thought-provoking. . Reading the paper makes us more educated and involved

Basic Journalism methods – do your homework and have more than one verifiable source for good news reporting.

GroundNews Network App a great source for identifying news sources, political leanings, accuracy

Arizona Field League (AFL) which is managed by MLB – 6 teams in the league, each AFL team has a roster from a combined 5 MLB affiliated teams. Rosters are mostly strong prospects

The AFL team, Mesa Solar Sox, has a roster from 5 teams Chicago Cubs, Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Rays

2 young players in Rays system in the AFL:
Xavier Isaac easy strength will hit a lot of Home Runsan eye on Tre Morgan

Australian Baseball League (ABL) not affiliated with MLB – Rays sent to the Perth Heat team include: Jhon Diaz, Carlos Colmenarez, Angel Luis Mateo, Enderson Delgado

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Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music “Roc