I want to be a good fan.  I want to be polite.   I usually am.  But how else are we going to make the fans of out of state teams (Boston, NY, Chicago, etc) convert to Rays fans?  99% of the Cubs fans in the trop last night live in the tampa bay area, but they still come to the game wearing cubs gear.  The only 2 things that will ever make them switch over is for our team to continue embarrasing them on the field and for us to embarrass them in the stands.  I hate to say it, but i love the Rays fans that are dicks to the visitings fans.  Talk that S, get in their face, shake that broom at them, we gotta do whatever it takes to turn this tide.  Everyone in this town is from somewhere else, but they refuse to root for the home team.  So i dont see any other way to go about it.  If we keep winning and they keep getting harrassed at the games, maybe finally they will don a rays jersey for good. 

Do it for your kids...i would hate to have grown up in NY but been a huge Chicago fan b/c my dad was from there.  Kids are fans of their dads team.  as a kid growing up its great to be a fan of the hometown team and see 25 games over the summer.  This is how you build a lasting fan base, you have kids who grow up and then are die-hard life long fans.

I dont like being the dick fan out there, but we gotta do something.  we gotta make them hate coming here with an opposing jersey on.  Our team has gotta keep making them look bad on the field.  I think its a problem the team and the fanbase need to attack.  am i wrong?  Go Rays!