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Rays play to three smallest crowds ever vs. Yankees

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The seats are still lonely at Tropicana Field. Still isolated. Still blue. Still empty, too. The Tampa Bay Rays, and stop us if you’ve heard this one before, are struggling at the gate once again. Over the last three nights. They have played the lowest crowd they have ever had against the New York Yankees (Tuesday), and the second lowest (Monday), and the third lowest (Wednesday). Blame who you wish, and feel how you want about another story about the…

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Attendance still under microscope for winning Rays

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People hereabouts really like to watch the Rays on television. We know this because the ratings are spectacular. People love to listen on radio, wear their T-shirts, talk about them around theย water cooler and send me helpful suggestions by e-mail for Joe Maddon. They like everything about this young, vibrant, exciting team that has rushed to the best record in baseball as the end of April nears. None of that is likely to help them much at the box office…

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NY Times: The magic deserts struggling Rays after a run to the World Series

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After conjuring some ninth-inning magic to defeat the Yankees on Saturday, the Rays are only one game over .500, and quite relieved that a 6-1 run got them there. They have fluttered in fourth place in the American League East every day for almost a month, and have not been higher than third since the first week of the season. Even the manager who could do no wrong one season ago, Joe Maddon, last month had a lineup-card goof cost…

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