"It was a white-hot argument back then because people thought the government was going after our guy," Ray Ratto, a Bay Area sports columnist, said.
"I don't debate — this guy is outstanding," Rays Manager Joe Maddon said of Cabrera.
"The extra month in the playoffs is huge, especially for a young guy," said the Rays' pitching coach, Jim Hickey, who saw the impact firsthand with a young staff when Tampa Bay reached the 2008 World Series.
But if they had managed to squeeze in a viewing of "We Live in Public," a documentary by Ondi Timoner that won a grand jury prize here on Saturday, they'd know that the guy in the Ray-Bans, Josh Harris, made $80 million on a Web consultancy and used it to first build a television network on the Internet when most people were on dial-up.
I probably couldn't sell this comic book proposal because the scenario sounds too preposterous, even for a guy with X-Ray vision who flies.
I love softball as much as the next guy, but Blu-ray will last another decade at best and forward thinking right now might give Sony the win it's looking for in the next stage of Playstation development.
I guess, overall, I wanted to find the humanity behind the Muslamic ray guns guy.
And the guy at the X-ray machine just said, 'Hey, you won an Emmy!
Sure, the parking ticket guy will have X-ray vision of my guilty pleasures as well as my driving record (maybe he'll think it's cool that I order old "Magnum P.I". episodes via Netflix), but it's so worth it when the McDonald's drive-through captures my frequency, knows the value meal I like and charges my credit card -- with the entire transaction taking place in my head.
For every hour of rays this guy catches, it walks away with 5-10 minutes of talk time.
