As someone who enjoys nitpicking, and perhaps obsessively so (I'm in group therapy for it, but we can't decide what order we should sit in or who gets to speak first), I must point out the error in geography in MLB.com's "Los Angeles Traces" story.
As for Longoria's teammates, James Shields, a pillar in Rays manager Joe Maddon's rotation, developed his game at Hart High School in Newhall, in the sprawling San Fernando Valley.
The emphasis is mine. Newhall is actually located in the equally sprawling Santa Clarita Valley, which is really more of a series of canyons than a big valley.
While we're doing Rays-related geography griping, can we please alert the national media that there is not, and never has been, any such team as "Tampa"? They don't play in Tampa, they don't call themselves Tampa, and yet somehow the misidentification has spread though the press like an untreated case of syphilis.
Heh. I joined the Procrastinators' Club, but to date we haven't gotten around to meeting. Maybe someday...
So you can tell us more about that untreated case of syphilis?
We're all friends here.
Link from Santa Clarita Historical Society:
http://www.scvhs.org/station.htm
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