So, we keep hearing about poor attendance at the Rays home games.  We like the Rays and we support them, but I”m afraid we’re part of that big mass of people who just don’t get around to going to the games.  Well, we decided that it was time to change that, so last Friday, a group of 14 of us went to Tropicana Field to watch the Rays play the Kansas City Royals.  After having won so many games and being on top of the world with their record for so long, we just happened to choose to attend the game where they lost!  Of course, we were unhappy about that, and we felt bad for them, but the interesting thing was that we still had a great time!  The energy and enthusiasm of the team and the crowd was great.  Management at Tropicana does a great job.  There were people to direct you to your seats, there were people who made sure that if anybody was standing up and blocking the view, they would either move on or sit back down.  All of the usual ball game food was there, plus more.  And they even had a little fireworks show after the game, inside of Tropicana – very cool!  If you have thought at all about going to see a game, but you just haven’t gotten around to it, I encourage you to buy your tickets and go down and support St. Petersburg’s team!  Tropicana Field and the Tampa Bay Rays are just one more of the huge variety of entertainment and activities that we have here to fill up our lives…

The photo below was taken when the Royals had several players on base, and the Rays were doing their best to figure out how to stop them in their tracks…