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= '''Welcome to RaysBB''' =
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<blockquote>''This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.'' - Bill Veeck</blockquote>
[[File:File:Site_logo.gif|thumb|Former RaysBB.com forum logo]]
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'''RaysBB''' is a work-in-progress repository of information, minutiae, history and other potentially interesting things about the Tampa Bay Rays, its affiliates and associated entities.  You can get an idea of our (probably slow) progress by viewing the "[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]" page.
  
We're not open.  We don't know when we're going to be open. What are you doing here?
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'''If you would like to help contribute to this site, email [mailto:admin@raysbb.com admin@raysbb.com]'''. You can also interact with RaysBB by [https://plus.google.com/109314802948055752946 visiting us on Google+].
  
=== What Happened? ===
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{{People by position}}
To what?  The old RaysBB forum?  [http://raysbb.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12067 Oh, several things].  The board still exists for now ([http://raysbb.com/phpBB3/ raysbb.com/phpBB3]), but is closed to new registrations.  Eventually, it will be removed altogether.
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{{Major League Teams}}
 
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{{Triple-A Affiliates}}
This is a soft-launch of the new RaysBB.
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{{Double-A Affiliates}}
 
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{{Advanced-A Affiliates}}
=== What's Planned? ===
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{{Class-A Affiliates}}
* A repository of information and minutiae related to the [http://www.raysbaseball.com Tampa Bay Rays].
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{{Short-Season Affiliates}}
* Potentially interesting things.
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{{Advanced-Rookie Affiliates}}
* Random this n' that.
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{{Rookie Affiliates}}
 
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{{Foreign-Rookie Affiliates}}
=== What's the Point? ===
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* ''Italics'' indicate that not all players on such teams were provided by the Tampa Bay organization.
The cataloging of all sorts of information related to the Tampa Bay Rays organization into a single, more-convenient location.  We're not looking to replace the [http://draysbay.com/ myriad] of [http://forums.theraysrepublic.com/ Rays-related] [http://www.raysprospects.com/ websites and fora], just provide a suitable location for bringing together a lot of information that is scattered, unorganized or inconvenient.
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{{Offseason Leagues}}
 
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{{Draft History}}
=== Wait a minute, something's not right... ===
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{{Dates}}
This project is being run with [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki software], the same stuff that powers places like [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia].  It is not, however, a free-for-all, not does it try to accomplish what Wikipedia is already doing so well.  For one, there isn't a large enough user base (yet) to become effectively self-policing.  For another, there's going to be information here that probably wouldn't pass muster on Wikipedia's "notability" requirements.  So here we are.
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=== Awesome!  I wanna help! ===
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Awesome!  Let me know with an email to admin at raysbb dot com.  The help of anyone familiar with the (Devil) Rays organization, has experience with the MediaWiki platform, a decent eye for editing and/or data entry would be welcome.  If you're OK putting together templates and navigation schemes, that's even more awesome.  If you happen to have a lot of info on a minor league affiliate or just happen to love one particular obscure player or can expound at-length on the subtle uniform differences between the 2002 and 2003 Devil Rays seasons, we'll find a place for it.
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=== General Expectations ===
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At a minimum, I'd like to see an entry on every player to play in a game for a Rays or Rays-affiliated team.  Not necessarily a whole novel, just acknowledgement that they played.
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Ideally, box scores for all games possible (no problem for the big league team, thanks to awesome resources like [http://www.retrosheet.org/ RetroSheet], but in general it's much more difficult the lower in the minors and further back you go). Real, researched information that covers a wide range of topics.
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Apart from that, we'll see what happens. 
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I know that I would ''not'' like to see a bunch of articles ''a la'' many on [http://sonsofsamhorn.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Sons of Sam Horn]'s wiki (for example, pages on various players' wives, the relative attractiveness of various Red Sox-related television personalities, pictures of a high school pole-vaulter with no discernible relationship to baseball at all).  Don't get me wrong; among all the cruft, there's actually some decent information buried in SoSH's wiki. However, it's more like an extension of a locker room than a respectable depository of data.
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=== So What if You Threw a Party and Nobody Came? ===
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I'm not worried about that.  Even if I'm the only one here, I'll be chugging along.  It'll just take longer by myself.
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Latest revision as of 23:05, 8 October 2012

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. - Bill Veeck


RaysBB is a work-in-progress repository of information, minutiae, history and other potentially interesting things about the Tampa Bay Rays, its affiliates and associated entities. You can get an idea of our (probably slow) progress by viewing the "Recent changes" page.

If you would like to help contribute to this site, email admin@raysbb.com. You can also interact with RaysBB by visiting us on Google+.

  • Italics indicate that not all players on such teams were provided by the Tampa Bay organization.