Matt Reinstetle

YOUR Tampa Bay Rays 🫵 Playing as the visitors in Tampa tonight got us thinking about putting Tampa Bay back on our regular season road jerseys, and you get to help choose how. Which version of the away grays would you want to see take the field in the future?

All 8 episodes of ‘SPIDER-NOIR’ will premiere on May 27 as a binge on Prime Video.

Tom Brady cooks Logan Paul calling his athleticism “cute” compared to NFL players 😭

🚨DeSantis says NO DATA CENTERS! They do NOT create jobs and suck up all the electricity! “I don't think there's very many people that want to have higher energy bills just so some chatbot can corrupt some 13 year old kid online! That is not what anybody is signing up for!”

Meet Michael Rubin He turned $2,500 in Bar Mitzvah money into Fanatics, a $30 Billion sports powerhouse. Born in 1972 to a Jewish family in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, Rubin showed entrepreneurial drive early. • At 12, he started a ski-tuning shop in his parents’ basement. • At 14, using his $2,500 Bar Mitzvah money as seed capital (and a lease signed by his father), he opened Mike’s Ski and Sport in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. By 16, he was $120,000 in debt. He settled with creditors using a $37,000 loan from his father—on the condition he attend college. He briefly attended Villanova University but dropped out after a smart deal: borrowing $17,000 to buy $200,000 worth of overstock equipment at a discount, then reselling it for $75,000. He sold his ski shops and launched KPR Sports (named after his parents’ initials), a closeout company for overstock athletic gear. • By age 21 (1993), KPR hit $1 million in sales. • By 1995, it reached $50 million. In 1998, Rubin founded Global Sports Incorporated, which became GSI Commerce—a major e-commerce and logistics player. In 2011, at age 38, he sold GSI to eBay for $2.4 billion! eBay kept the fulfillment business; Rubin bought back the consumer brands at a bargain, including Fanatics (licensed sports merchandise), Rue La La, and ShopRunner. He became CEO of Fanatics and focused on scaling it aggressively: • Secured major partnerships with Nike, NFL, MLB, and over 900 leagues/teams. • During COVID-19 (2020), repurposed an MLB uniform plant to produce hospital gowns and PPE. • Raised big funding rounds: $350M (2020, valuation $6.2B), more in 2021, then $1.5B + $700M (2022, valuation hit $31 billion). • Expanded into trading cards (acquired Topps for $500M in 2022) and betting/gaming (launched 2023). From a teenage ski shop to a global leader in sports merchandise, trading cards, and more, Michael Rubin’s journey is a classic American Jewish entrepreneurial success story built on hustle, smart deals, and Values.

A look at our future non-conference opponents 📅

When I saw this clip in the Chevy documentary I had to go back and watch it a few times. Genuinely in awe of this pratfall. Total commitment all the way, not a flinch of hesitation.