Tampa Bay Rays - RaysUp Barbecue with Kansas City, & Beer with FIFA

Mark and Mat record live during the Rays vs. Royals Wednesday night game, the fourth and final game of a tough homestand series that Tampa Bay lost three games to one. The score at wrap-up is 5-3 in favor of the Rays heading into the final out of the ninth. Topics Covered Rays June Struggles The guys break down a rough June for Tampa Bay, noting the team has been burning through its early-season buffer. Mat walks through the slugging numbers for the month, where league average sits at .400. Only

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June 25, 2026

Tampa Bay Rays - RaysUp Barbecue with Kansas City, & Beer with FIFA

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June 22, 2026

Genelle & Mochine - DeSoto Park & Ybor City Sportswomen & Family

Mark Corbett sits down with Genelle Garverick to explore the rich sports history of Tampa's Palmetto Beach, Ybor City, and DeSoto Park communities, with a special focus on Genelle's legendary mother, Mochine Mercedes Fernandez. Growing Up in Palmetto Beach, DeSoto Park & Ybor City Genelle attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH), a K-12 Catholic school in Ybor CityBegan playing city/playground sports around age 6OLPH fielded competitive girls' volleyball and basketball teams despite sma...

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June 18, 2026

RaysUp - California Surf-fering & a Return to the Trop w/ Longoria

Mark and Mat dive deep into the Tampa Bay Rays' struggles on their West Coast road trip, debate the future of baseball marketing, celebrate Evan Longoria's upcoming number retirement, and share a historic tale about Lou Piniella and Bill Gates. Rays on the West Coast The Rays' disappointing road trip to California — struggling offense, solid pitchingThe challenges of East-to-West travel and time zone adjustmentsThe third-worst team defense over the last 17 days, offset by strong pitching perf...

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June 16, 2026

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - AAGPBL & Cuba Expansion Plans

Host Mark Corbett sits down with Merrie Fidler, the foremost historian of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), to explore the league's remarkable history, from its wartime origins to its ambitious international expansion plans, and the ongoing revival of women's baseball today. Topics Covered How Merrie discovered the AAGPBL through a 1943 Time Magazine article while pursuing her master's degree in sport history at UMass Amherst Her years of primary research, interviewin

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April 12, 2025

Joe Maddon & Rick Vaughn @ Tampa Baseball Museum Event

This month the Tampa Baseball Museum is spotlighting the 5 managers of the Tampa Bay Rays. The museum will be sharing the careers & stories of each manager, Larry Rothschild, Hal McRae, Lou Piniella, Joe Maddon & Kevin Cash. Unique artifacts…

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Oct. 4, 2024

All-American Women's Baseball Classic

Do you enjoy baseball?Did you revel in the excitement watching the WBSC & see the USA Women's National Baseball Team take the field in Thunder Bay & defeat #1 Ranked Japan?Then make your way to  Durham next week and see 60 of the to…

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May 21, 2024

LL Cool J & the Tampa Bay Rays - I wish

If you switch out the 2 first names of LL Cool J you get a new pitcher for the Rays.Convert the first name of LL Cool J from plural to single. Then swap that name out with his 2nd name and with those 2 name you now have a new pitcher for the Rays.…

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