About

Devon Rogers has been hooked since the beginning. As a high school  junior, Devon is one of the few who has gotten to grow up with the Rays. He has  been a fan for as long as he can remember. He has a lot of connections to the  Rays, from throwing out the first pitch to his then favorite player Jason Tyner  and to Wade Boggs collecting his 3,000th hit on his fourth birthday. Living in  the St. Petersburg area for his entire life, Devon has been blessed with the  ability to go to lots of games for as long as he can remember. Now, as a  half-season ticket holder, he gets to attend around 30 games a year with his  Dad. His best baseball memory is by far watching the Rays win the penant in 2008  and getting to be there to watch the Rays celebrate. Devon looks forward to bringing you Rays news and opinion as a staff writer for Rays Colored Glasses. You can follow  him on Twitter at @RCG_DevonRogers or email  him at devonrogers@tampabay.rr.com

New to the RCG team, Robbie has been a baseball blogger since starting a blog called 11 or Nothing on fannation.com back in December of 2009. He was successful several posts featured on the front page of fannation.com before moving over to isportsweb.com, where he began covering the Tampa Bay Rays. There, he became a regular on yardbarker.com‘s Rays page and MLB front page and wrote several posts that were responded to all over the blogosphere, and now Robbie is ready for a new challenge here at RCG. Robbie is a diehard baseball fan, caring so much about every facet of the game and how it’s played, but also the statistics. Robbie is obsessed with sabermetrics and Pitch F/X and adds a different dimension to RCG. Robbie resides in the New York area but remains a steadfast Rays fan, always coming to the games when the Rays come to town. He looks forward to providing Rays fans with content all across the spectrum and original ideas no one else would think of, and he can’t wait for the Rays to finally bring home championship number one. You can follow Robbie on Twitter at @RCG_Robbie or email him at robbiekno@gmail.com

Jamie Newcomb’s baseball playing days didn’t go past Little League, but baseball is a game that has always been close to his heart. Even though the first big league game (a marathon affair between the White Sox and Orioles at the old Memorial Stadium) saw him fall asleep in the late innings, he was hooked. Growing up a Braves fan in the lean years of the late 80’s he was rewarded for that suffering with their championship runs through the 90’s. In what he calls one of the worst, best moments of his life, he got to go to the 1992 World Series, game 2. There, he watched the Toronto Blue Jays’ Ed Sprague ruin an awesome fan experience by hitting a game winning home run in the 9^th inning against his beloved Braves. He was able to connect more with the sport he loves becoming the PA announcer for two years for the Appalachian League Danville Braves and one year for the Danville 97’s. That team was the former Durham Bulls team that was moved when Durham became the triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Intrigue would describe his first interest in the expansion Rays, watching some of the aging stars that they added to their early rosters. He followed them closer after moving to the Triangle of North Carolina and living just minutes from the Durham Bulls. When his brother moved to Sarasota and he got to experience a game with him at the “Trop” he became a fan.  Jamie believes the Rays represent everything that could be right and everything that currently is wrong in Major League Baseball. But, he loves to watch them play and loves to take in games at the D-BAP where he watches their future stars take the field and prove they deserve a shot at the next level.You can follow Jamie on Twitter @jamesnewcomb3 and reach him at jamienewcomb@hotmail.com