OT: Buccaneers, Rays & Other Tampa Bay Sports Teams

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The concern with Godwin is his injury moving forward, if he plays like he did last year before the injury it’s money well spent.
 
I'm actually not thrilled with re-signing Godwin. The guy has had several major injuries and coming back from his last one he looked very mediocre for quite awhile. What's he going to look like next season after his latest major injury? He's not getting any younger and he has had numerous surgeries now, I'm just not expecting much out of him to be honest.
He took maybe a handful of games.or so to really get back to form after a terrible spear hit, helmet to knee, took him out. His only other significant injury was from another questionable tackle last year. He may not be 100% quite yet in game 1, but he'll have had more time to recover from this injury. The Bucs weren't getting anyone better and younger for cheaper, and there's no wr in the draft they should be wasting a 1st rd pick on either. Godwin was leading the league in receptions and tied 3rd for td's when he went down, and for the Bucs to get him for 3x22, when there were reports that some teams may have offered him 4 years at 25 million, is fantastic work by Licht and the Bucs.
 
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Idk man. An injured Godwin is still better than about 80% of the league. I'm optimistic he's going to return to form. I just hope we aren't stuck with another flavor of Dave Canales at OC and he has no idea how to utilize anyone not named Evans
 
He took maybe a handful of games.or so to really get back to form after a terrible spear hit, helmet to knee, took him out. His only other significant injury was from another questionable tackle last year. He may not be 100% quite yet in game 1, but he'll have had more time to recover from this injury. The Bucs weren't getting anyone better and younger for cheaper, and there's no wr in the draft they should be wasting a 1st rd pick on either. Godwin was leading the league in receptions and tied 3rd for td's when he went down, and for the Bucs to get him for 3x22, when there were reports that some teams may have offered him 4 years at 25 million, is fantastic work by Licht and the Bucs.

I read he left 20+ million on the table to sign with the Bucs.
 
I read he left 20+ million on the table to sign with the Bucs.
I heard rumors that at least a couple teams were considering offering him a 4 year deal worth 90-100 million. Idk how real those offers may have been, but it does seem fairly realistic that he took less, both in years and aav, to stay with Tampa.
 
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Going to the Rays vs Rockies game next Saturday. Never been to Steinbrenner so don't know the parking in that area, Seatgeek was trying to charge me $15 on top of the $28 parking fee. There's got to be cheaper options out there,.anyone know the best place to park? Also will be with me 10 year old so don't want anything too sketchy which i know that area can get.
 
Would assume the parking is similar to Bucs games if there's no event at Ray Jay the same day. HCC should have some and the Ray Jay lots as well? Never been to a game there though, but have driven by during one and that's what it seemed was going on. Lots of people cross that pedestrian bridge between the stadiums. I wonder if there will be parking all the way out at Himes like for Bucs games, but that's quite a hike and with only 11k fans going I doubt there's a need for it.
 
Would assume the parking is similar to Bucs games if there's no event at Ray Jay the same day. HCC should have some and the Ray Jay lots as well? Never been to a game there though, but have driven by during one and that's what it seemed was going on. Lots of people cross that pedestrian bridge between the stadiums. I wonder if there will be parking all the way out at Himes like for Bucs games, but that's quite a hike and with only 11k fans going I doubt there's a need for it.
The pedestrian bridge was closed when I was at RayJay in January. The rayjay side had no stairs/ramp leading up to the bridge. Not sure if it was from storm damage or just being replaced.
 
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Would assume the parking is similar to Bucs games if there's no event at Ray Jay the same day. HCC should have some and the Ray Jay lots as well? Never been to a game there though, but have driven by during one and that's what it seemed was going on. Lots of people cross that pedestrian bridge between the stadiums. I wonder if there will be parking all the way out at Himes like for Bucs games, but that's quite a hike and with only 11k fans going I doubt there's a need for it.

Wasn't sure about the school parking because it's a Saturday, didn't know if lots were closed or they ticket you. Also if the bridge is closed that will lower the options. Hopefully I can just pay at the lot day of and not pay the ridiculous service fees.
 
I mean, not like the Rays had much chance to contend this year with that rotation anyway, but if McClanahan is done again, not only are the Rays but also have to start thinking about his career.
Somewhere the brass breathes a sigh of relief that they aren't gonna have to pay this guy shit if he needs another TJ
 
Pepiot is the opening day starter. Lmao that we couldn't even get through spring training before one of our starting pitchers suffers enough of an injury to miss a game.

This doesn’t mean it's serious, but this is a full 8 piece bucket of LOL's cooked and seasoned to crispy perfection
 

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