{"id":45560,"date":"2023-08-22T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45560"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:24:01","slug":"rays-tropicana-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45560","title":{"rendered":"Rays @ Tropicana Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first Rays&#8217; game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46897\">The stadium<\/a> @ 1 Tropicana Dr., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=87801\">St. Petersburg<\/a>, FL 33705 &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46897\">in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46383\">Marlins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45625\">Texas Rangers<\/a> playoff<\/li>\n<li>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44354\">Yankees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#Tropicanafield #Tampabay vs #coloradorockies\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fTWBJo23Jw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bay Area means SF or Tampa? &#x1f602; The battle of the Bays<\/p>\n<p>The stadium: it looks old, feels old and it is old. The name shows the age &#8230; nowadays, the sport arenas use the names, like Bill Games and Steve Jobs, -:) you get the picture. I wonder if the Field is ever used for circus, which I think is pretty appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The national anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Fy2SVSPKVwg\">is so so<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#the-8th-inning #tampabayrays 2023.8.22 #grandslam  #OsleivisBasabe\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jBkxe_UhSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ok, to the game. It&#8217;s an exciting game, Rays won 12-4. The 8th inning is something to remember for: they scored 9 runs, of which is the grand slam home run by the rookie Osleivis Basabe (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osleivis_Basabe\">2000<\/a>-, Venezuela), who made ML debut early this month, August 13, to be exact. By now he has 8 rbi.<\/p>\n<p>Below is what I wrote on my FB during the first innings &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves Raymond<\/p>\n<p>Parking lot directors: I asked them if I could bring my bottle of water in. They said only sealed bottles. And followed up with \u201cif you\u2019ve beer &#x1f37b; you can leave them with me.\u201d Little Irene \u201cbeer? I\u2019ve whole bottle of grey goose.\u201d I lied but they said they love me.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the fans in purple, I asked the gate checkers why don\u2019t you direct them to another ball park? They so love me &#x1f602;<\/p>\n<p>Ticket agents. As my better half busy conducting his transaction. Little Irene saw a couple of guys walked over who looked like have no clue. I told them \u201cif you\u2019re Rays fan, the tickets are free \u2026\u201d The agent was so not happy, kept saying, \u201clook at me who wears uniform \u2026 trust me \u2026\u201d Guess it\u2019s politically incorrect to say don\u2019t trust woman \u2026 shouting match ensured &#x1f61d; ha ha ha<\/p>\n<p>&#x26be;&#xfe0f; what &#x26be;&#xfe0f;? It\u2019s only the end of the third inning &#x1f602; long way to go &#x1f62d; the night is so young<\/p>\n<p>@ 7:29 Rays ties the game at 2:2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89375\">Social Roost<\/a> is really, will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Rays&#8217; game. The stadium @ 1 Tropicana Dr., St. Petersburg, FL 33705 &#8230; in 2025 Marlins Texas Rangers playoff @ Yankees Bay Area means SF or Tampa? &#x1f602; The battle of the Bays The stadium: it looks old, feels old and it is old. The name shows the age &#8230; nowadays, the sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}