Bill Evers, Former Tampa Bay Devil Rays Coach, Falls Upward

how did I know that the longest comment would be Manny's?

Maybe because I spent time in the Rays' clubhouse and saw Evers and Maddon interact in person?

That's it. Did you really? Dude...how did you get to do that?

oh shit... here we go again... read this, this, then this and a whole bunch of other stuff from this

Or just peruse the Rays Opinions page

It sounds like more fun than it ended up being. Great experience but I think I got myself blackballed by MLB because of some "things".

cool. i will take a look

You got yourself blackballed? Awesome!

Not officially blackballed like Jose Canseco (but I do have a book I'm working on!), but they have pretty much denied my existence. I think team Pres. Silverman was given the "don't do that again" speech from MLB and he didn't seem to like me much anyway. Especially when he said "we look at you like a version of Sports Guy for the Rays" and I responded succinctly with a "yeah, well I'm not a turd like him".

I think he felt he got duped into winning the bid when he was just trying to boost up the bid.

I made friends with all the players and clubhouse people and PR staff, but the guy at the top pulls the strings, ya know?

Screw 'em... It started as charity, but I'll keep being a Rays fan out of spite if I have to!

I'll read the book. :) Sounds like you had a lot of fun no matter what.

I ALWAYS have fun no matter what. That's why life was invented! BTW... do you know any publishers?

I do.....not. Unfortunately.