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#TBLightning beat writer @TB_Times . Astronaut in training. Citizen/junior ranger. Baltimore born & raised. Makes @ShannonEncina laugh. Rawley's favorite.
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My heart’s a little emptier tonight. Fighting back tears as I type.
Anyone who said you should never meet your heroes never met Brooks Robinson, because No. 5 met all your expectations of his greatness and surpassed them with his humility & sincerity.
RIP 🐐 🧡🖤
#Birdland
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Maroon: “I wasn’t even on the ice & I don't understand why he said it. I'm a bigger guy, I know that. There's times we joke around the locker, guys chirp me on the ice. But when someone's announcing the game and doing something like that, or front of millions of fans and…(1/2)
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(2/2) “…millions of listeners and just pretty much you put me down to the lowest, it’s never fun to hear that…I’m a professional athlete, I can take some stuff….I’m a funny guy…You can joke with me all you want, but that was very unnecessary.”
#Gobolts
#tblightning
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The
#StanleyCup
did sustain some damage today during the
#TBLightning
’s victory celebration. It will go to Montreal to be repaired and the
#GoBolts
Cup tour will begin as scheduled next weekend.
#TampaBay
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#GoBolts
' Vasilevskiy on being booed in Sunrise: "To me, it's like they're respecting me because I've done something right against them. I'll take it. I actually I appreciate that. So that's fun. I wish every building was like this."
#TimeToHunt
#TBLIghtning
#NHLAllStarWeekend
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#GoBolts
Vasilevskiy on what he can do to fight thought the
#LeafsForever
screens better: “Buy myself like (expletive) x-ray glasses.”
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Some personal news: I’m leaving
@BaltimoreSun
next week to return to
#TampaBay
and the
@TB_Times
to cover the Tampa Bay Bucs and also do pro sports enterprise work. Sad to leave
#Baltimore
, but excited to embark on great new opportunity.
#Orioles
#Bucs
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All in all,
#Astros
players seems genuinely remorseful. Carlos Correa’s comments stood out from the bunch. He said that he believed illegal sign stealing offered an an advantage. Added that he didn’t believe it had an effect on 2017 postseason or WS because teams altered signs.
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A copy of today’s
@capgaznews
and white lilies placed at the Capital Gazette’s press box seat at Camden Yards.
#Orioles
will hold a moment of silence before tonight’s game for the victims of the
#CapitalGazetteShooting
.
#Annapolis
#Baltimore
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Alex Killorn was working with his former
#GoBolts
teammates at this morning’s informal skate in Brandon. Also seen on the ice: Hagel, Cirelli, Paul, Barre-Boulet and Fleury.
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Really wish I could be in Denver tonight for Game 1, but instead I will be having a watch party from the
@TGHCares
ICU unit. Long back story & all is good. Hope to pull a Brayden Point and be back soon. Thank you to the staff at TGH, especially the nurses.
#GoBolts
#StanleyCup
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#GoBolts
come off the ice after 7-3 Game 1 win in Toronto. Victor Hedman leading welcoming line.
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Yes, it’s true. Kevin Gausman and Chris Tillman are serving as bat boys for today’s game, duties they apparently must serve for fielding poor fantasy football teams last year. This job is not in name only. They are retrieving bats, giving the HP ump baseballs.
#Orioles
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Yes, Carter Stamkos got to see the Zamboni in Las Vegas. Steven Stamkos said that they went to Monster Jam at Raymond James Stadium when they returned. “He had a quick turnaround, so we’re into the monster trucks now.”
#gobolts
#tblightning
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#TBLightning
coach Jon Cooper on
#Isles
: "When you're going to play for a championship, you want to know you're played the best...The Islanders as as good a team as we've played...It was unbelievably difficult. That's as close as two teams can be."
#GoBolts
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Adam Jones runs onto field for anthem as his
#Orioles
teammates remain at dugout and fans give him standing ovation. He tips his cap in acknowledgment.
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Some professional news:
This week, I’m starting my new role as the
#TBLightning
beat writer for the
@TB_Times
.
I’m excited to cover the reigning
#StanleyCup
champs.
Join me as we follow the
#GoBolts
on their next chapter.
It will be a fun ride and as they say in hockey...
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#TBLightning
forward Nikita Kucherov played through a cracked rib he suffered from Scott Mayfield cross check in Game 6 of the
#StanleyCup
semifinals. He played w/ protective padding & returned to
#Tampa
between Games 3 & 4 of final to receive additional medical care.
#gobolts
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#Tampa
mayor Jane Castor, speaking just now on WFLA Radio, said
#StanleyCup
final Game 5 is still on as scheduled for tomorrow night at Amalie Arena. “We hope the greatest damage in this city is what the Lightning do to the poor Canadiens.”
#GoBolts
#Elsa
#HurricaneElsa
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The city of
#Tampa
is in preliminary discussions with the Toronto Raptors to host the
#NBA
team this season in the case the
#Raptors
aren’t able to play games in Toronto because of existing Canadian travel restrictions.
#TampaBay
#WeTheNorth
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Brady on the sideline after the fumble. Don’t need much lip-reading skill here.
#gobucs
#keeppounding
#bucs
#tb12
#carvstb
#nfl
#NFLTwitter
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From
@LigaDomcom
: Players from Dominican winter ball teams Licey and Aguilas embrace in prayer for Oscar Taveras.
http://t.co/d8QAFNxkZP
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The reigning Stanley Cup champs and the Presidents Trophy winners eliminated in Game 7s on the same night. Reminder how tough it is to get deep in the playoffs every year. Makes you appreciate what the
#GoBolts
were able to do over three-year stretch.
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Ondrej Palat reflects on his time with
#GoBolts
this morning during his
#NJDevils
introductory press availability.
#TBLightning
#NHLFreeAgency
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#GoBolts
Nick Paul is a pending free agent but said he enjoyed his time in Tampa. Said he wants to come back and his agent knows how he feels. “I want to be in the playoffs again.” He’s even wearing a hat with the state of Florida on it.
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#Angels
’ Shohei Ohtani received a beer shower after his first MLB hit and first MLB win. He received another one after hitting for the cycle on Thursday. “It’s always good to get the beer shower.”
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This announcement on the Camden Yards scoreboard just now.
#Orioles
#RedSox
#FreddieGray
protest
http://t.co/iEFGCZDvD3
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Both Austin Watson and Waltteri Merela have been told they are making the
#GoBolts
opening night roster.
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Mikhail Sergachev receives an ovation from MSG crowd as he’s wheeled off ice sitting on a stretcher, his face in a towel.
#gobolts
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Dammit,
@DirkShadd
. You did it again.
The best catwalk sports photographer I know struck again with another instant classic shot from above.
#raysup
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Today is
#TheLastDance
for the 🐐. My dad is retiring after a 39-year career as a letter carrier and 48 years total w/ the federal government (9 years with the FBI). He’s been essential personnel for nearly four decades delivering mail in West
#Baltimore
.
@USPS
@NALC_National
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Triple H says Bianca Belair will be "one of the biggest stars we’ve ever seen" in
#WWE
.
On Belair's unique path to a historic title match at this week's
#WrestleMania
in
#Tampa
in this
@TB_Times
story:
#TampaBay
#SmackDown
#ProWrestling
@BiancaBelairWWE
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Orioles, Adam Jones and his wife, Audie, make $150,000 contribution to Baltimore area nonprofits
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Jonathan Schoop said he cried when when Manny Machado told him he had been traded. Today was weird. They usually go to the part together. Knows today will be strange looking to his right and not seeing Machado.
#Orioles
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Steven Stamkos, who will enter the final year of his contract next season, said the
#GoBolts
jersey is the only one he wants to wear. Said there’s hopefully an extension conversation over the summer “and we’ll take it from there.”
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David Savard said he received photos and texts from his old
#CBJ
teammates watching the game, offering congratulations. He played in Columbus for a long time, and his old teammates were happy to see him lift the Cup.
#GoBolts
#StanleyCup
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Beckham on curtain call: "My 1st one in my career for sure. Tampa doesn’t pack out the stadium like that, but it’s a great feeling, man."
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Merela also said that as a kid he would read a Finnish hockey magazine sent to his house every month. When he was 10, it had a Steven Stamkos poster inserted in it and he put it on his wall. "Now I'm playing with the guy in the NHL. You can imagine how that must feel."
#GoBolts
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Adam Jones: "This city has just supported me through everything and everything I’ve done between these lines, they’ve appreciated throughout the years."
#Orioles
#Baltimore
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Farewell Baltimore: Orioles beat writer Eduardo A. Encina says goodbye as he leaves The Sun
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#TBLightning
coach Jon Cooper has entered COVID protocol. Assistant coach Derek Lalonde will run the forward lines tonight.
#GoBolts
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Matt Dumba's first day with
#GoBolts
:
-- Wheels down at
@FlyTPA
around 2
-- Got his bags around 3
-- Arrived at
@AmalieArena
at 3:30
-- A bite to eat, a 15-minute nap and a couple cups of coffee
-- Logs 20:04 in ice time, including 2:13 shorthanded, and had a fight in 7-0 win.
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#TBLightning
coach Jon Cooper throwing up two fingers (back to back) while wearing a Gronk t-shirt is the most
#ChampaBay
thing ever.
#GoBolts
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Really happy for Steve Pearce. Easy to label him a journeyman, but he’s so much more. He’s a guy who made every team he played for better both on and off the field. Now he’s a
#WorldSeries
MVP. Humble guy deserving of a grandeur moment.
#Orioles
#RedSox
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#Raptors
in the rafters: The 2019
#NBA
champions banner hangs from the rafters of
#Tampa
’s Amalie Arena — which will temporarily serve as the Raptors’ home — next to the
#TBLightning
’s retired number banners.
📸 by
@DirkShadd
#WeTheNorth
#WeTheSouth
#TampaBay
#Toronto
#The6ix
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BREAKING: Capacity for next month's
#Wrestlemania
at Raymond James will be approximately 25,000 fans for each of two nights of the event. That's 36 percent of full capacity for what the event would hold at Raymond James in a normal year.
#TampaBay
#WWE
#ProWrestling
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Tampa Bay's three pro sports teams have donated money to help have a confederate statue in front of a downtown Tampa courthouse removed.
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#GoBolts
coach Jon Cooper will be a guest in-studio analyst for
@NHL_On_TNT
's Game 2 broadcast of the Eastern Conference final between the Hurricanes and Panthers.
More in this
@TB_Times
story:
#TBLightning
#TampaBay
#StanleyCupPlayoffs
#NHLPlayoffs
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After the today’s
#Bucs
game, the
#TBLightning
took the
#StanleyCup
to the 50-yard line at Raymond James Stadium.
#GoBolts
#GoBucs
#LACvsTB
#nfl
#nhl
#TampaBay
#Tampa
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Nikita Kucherov working on puck handling on his own before today’s
#TBLightning
training camp practice.
#gobolts
#nhl
#tampabay
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From the
@TB_Times
archive: Eight years before he became a
#WorldSeries
hero with his hometown
#Rays
, Brett Phillips was the 2012
@TBTimes_Sports
Pinellas County Player of the Year as a senior at Seminole H.S.
Story:
#RaysUp
#TampaBay
@WarhawksBB
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No Hedman, Cernak, Eyssimont or Cole on the ice as the
#GoBolts
start practice today n Toronto.
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#GoBolts
' coach Jon Cooper's walk-off quote to end today's exit interviews: "As long as Jeff Vinik is the owner and Julien BriseBois is the GM, I would excited about this organization every single year."
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#Orioles
are currently involved in late-deadline discussions to trade Schoop and possibly Gausman, according to source.
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Former
#Orioles
3B Melvin Mora became a U.S. citizen this afternoon during a
@USCIS
naturalization ceremony in
#Baltimore
.
#NewUSCitizen
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Vasilevskiy will start tomorrow’s game in Orlando, his first preseason game.
#tblightning
#gobolts
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Nice gesture by the
#Rays
, who had Bergers cookies shipped in from
#Baltimore
to make us feel at home in media dining
http://t.co/koIWrUkRKz
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#GoBolts
forward Pat Maroon doing work for ESPN tonight during broadcast of tonight’s
#NHLAllStar
Skills Competition. Joked that this is the closest he will get to an All-Star Game.
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Cole Koepke is 1st
#goBolts
player to wear a neck guard this season. He was a friend of Adam Johnson, who died of a skate blade injury. “It’s something you don't really think will happen & if it's something as simple as just a layer of protection, in my opinion, why not do it?”
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In the
#GoBolts
locker room this morning after skate,
#NHLBruins
broadcaster Jack Edwards approached Pat Maroon and the two had a lengthy conversation that lasted more than 10 minutes. Maroon was rather animated at times. Many players stayed in the room to watch the discussion.
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BriseBois said he hopes to approach young core players Cirelli, Cernak and Sergachev about contract extensions before their contracts are up.
#gobolts
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A message from Buck Showalter through his spokesperson Ray Schulte’s Instagram page.
#orioles
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#TBLightning
forward Pat Maroon promises this
#Tampa
boat party will top its predecessors.
“I’ve got something in the works.”
#gobolts
#tampabay
#boatparade
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One sign of Roy Halladay's greatness on mound: He last pitched in 2013, but still leads MLB in complete games since 2003 (62) ...by 26 games
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The boys coax Brayden Point into the middle of the ice to lead post-practice stretch.
#TBlightning
#gobolts
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Donuts lured
@SimplyAJ10
into the media room this morning, so he was subjected to
#OrioleMediaSelfie
.
http://t.co/NnMBu8XBD8
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Grateful to get out of the hospital today. Thanks to all the well wishers this past week. Now it’s about
#ProcessOverOutcome
.
#GoBolts
#StanleyCup
@TBLightning
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Looks like the
#TBLightning
are fully embracing the salary cap narrative & having some fun w/ it. Agent Dan Milstein, who reps Kucherov and Vasilevskiy, posted this shirt & indicated some players will wear them for Monday’s boat parade.
From Milstein’s IG:
#GoBolts
#StanleyCup
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New
#Rays
catcher Mike Zunino on getting a feel for a new pitching staff this spring: “My job is to help them and put them in a great spot.”
#mlb
#springtraining
#tbrays
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New
#GoBolts
F Anthony Duclair wants to build outdoor synthetic-ice rinks in underserved communities throughout Florida to help make hockey more diverse & inclusive. Construction on the first is just days away a few miles from
#TimeToHunt
’s arena.
Story:
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Ahead of the opening of training camp next week, several
#GoBolts
players are already skating together at the TGH Ice Plex in Brandon.
Here’s some Brayden Point for your TL.
#TBLightning
#HockeyTwitter
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