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		<title>Another Day, Another Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll let Cassie over at Bolts Blog summarize this one up to a T:
Oh, look. Another trade. I was thinking that it was about time for that again. And they&#8217;re trading away another defenseman for yet another forward. Yep, that&#8217;s pretty much par for the course with this team so far this season.
Looks like that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/11/30/another-day-another-deal/</link>
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		<title>Sundin born and Sundin bred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While St. Petersburg Times sports columnist Gary Shelton summarizes ownership as the quick-draw-running-joke of the NHL, another punchline has come into play.  
The Bolts have been one of several teams courtin&#8217; and chasing Mats Sundin.  The following blockquote characterizes why, in most part, it&#8217;s a joke that the team is one of ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/11/15/sundin-born-and-sundin-bred/</link>
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		<title>The running joke continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tampa Bay Lightning have fired head coach Barry Melrose; Associate Coach Rick Tocchet has been elevated to interim head coach.
Is there anyone, anyone at all, at OK Hockey interested in stability?  Cohesion?  I can understand a sense of urgency, but when urgency and immediate dividends are all that&#8217;s looked upon with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/11/14/the-running-joke-continues/</link>
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		<title>Note to Oren, Len and the powers that be with the Lightning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gentlemen&#8230;  How can I put this simply without offending the majority of my readers?  How can I put this lightly?  How can I phrase this in such a way that it gets through that I am concerned (as are many other long time Lightning fans)?  
Ah, I&#8217;ll censor myself in asking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/11/07/note-to-oren-len-and-the-powers-that-be-with-the-lightning/</link>
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		<title>Expectations Rays&#8217;d</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the history of this weblog and my blogging in general on the Internet, I&#8217;ve had some problems with the Tampa Bay professional baseball franchise.  I&#8217;ve had some problems with the mainstream coverage of the team when moves were made (blindly) to improve the team in 1999.  The gaffes, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/22/expectations-raysd/</link>
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		<title>your American League Champions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays.
From out of no where, having never won more than 70&#8217;s games, to League Champions&#8230;  That is a huge hill to climb.
And it ain&#8217;t over yet!
The blogosphere is teeming with posts about the Rays win, but I&#8217;ll just link to a select few threads:

Sticks of Fire
DRaysbay
Rays Index
Sports Talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/20/your-american-league-champions/</link>
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		<title>Regarding TBsports.net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technical and off topic mumbo jumbo here&#8230;
I&#8217;d like to point out that, for a year or so, I have had in my ownership a domain name of a site that I thought went dead&#8230;  Tampa Bay Sports Net (the domain name is tbsports.net).  I snatched the domain up when it expired and have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/19/regarding-tbsportsnet/</link>
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		<title>William A. Shea Stadium&#8217;s drawn out end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very much off topic&#8230;
I grew up a Mets fan, living in a small village on Long Island in New York.  I can remember, as a young kid, how everyone was going nutso for the Amazin&#8217;s of 1986.  I didn&#8217;t truly grasp it, but in the following years I grew to love and cherish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/16/william-a-shea-stadiums-drawn-out-end/</link>
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		<title>Juiced story syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rays / Red Sox about to get underway on TBS (why the hell did MLB approve putting all playoff games in the first two rounds on basic cable?!) but I wanted to bring up MSNBC trying to milk everything out of Tim Wakefield&#8217;s start tonight in an online column.
I&#8217;ve got loads of respect for Wakefield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/14/juiced-story-syndrom/</link>
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		<title>Design update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which doesn&#8217;t mean I will be blogging more often but I was tired of the old design, big time, for Boltsmag.  
As it stands, it&#8217;s not easy to find comments unless you visit the permalink for the post.  That should be corrected with time.
BUMP AND UPDATE 10-07-2008:  Some aspects of the site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/07/design-update/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane O&#8217;Brien is history, along with Michel Oullett.  While Michel never worked out, I had and continue to have high hopes for Shane.  The system here in TB has changed &#8212; and it remains to be seen if for the better - and his return to the western conference may pay off big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/07/whos-next/</link>
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		<title>Gamevertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Boltsmag&#8217;s longtime readers introduced me to a game that he and a few local bloggers up north put together for Washington Capitals fans and Toronto Maple Leaf fans.  It&#8217;s called Pick SPG and it&#8217;s a pick&#8217;em game but not of the traditional sort where you pick the winner of games&#8230;
Nope, you&#8217;re picking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/06/gamevertising/</link>
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		<title>30th place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A joke thread was started over at Calgary Puck over the summer.  I&#8217;m partly to blame for it but not as much as the ticket rep with the Lightning who sent out the mailer in question that was reposted over on those boards:
Don’t miss out on the hottest tickets in town, since the Lightning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/05/30th-place/</link>
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		<title>A Marketing disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening day for the Tampa Bay Lightning and you know what?
I had no clue it was today.
I had no clue start time was before noon here in the Tampa Bay television market.  I had no clue what station it was goign to be broadcast on &#8212; nationally!&#8230;right?!  This is an international game after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boltsmag.com/2008/10/04/a-marketing-disaster/</link>
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