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Poor guy looks like he's running on a big piece of beef jerky. It must have been like stealing second on a Crocodile Mile. But hey, one more day of baseball means one more day of World Series Dugouts.

The sequel to the popular FanHouse Era classic is after the jump.

Who are the Tampa Bay Rays? How did they surpass the Yankees and Red Sox this year? Are you able to appreciate the Wilco reference in the above title? How did they parlay the second-lowest payroll in baseball into a World Series berth?

I don't know as much about this team as I should, but I do know that they play old-style, hardscrabble, hard-nosed punch-fisted baseball. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that they live their lives as off-the-grid survivalists, utterly independent of societal trappings

Today's Dugout is after the jump.

What a game. My good friend/Dugout associate Mike was in attendance and had the time of his life, a life which included Massachusetts native and former WWE champion John Cena there in Rays gear. LeBron James was also in attendance, wearing a Yankees hat, a Patriots jersey, and San Antonio Spurs shorts. And a hockey thing.

To help his cause, the aforementioned Mike has designed new Dugout playoff shirts that are available to purchase from our foreign warehouses at Spreadshirt! Support your favorite player or team (or hackneyed photo-comic comedy blogger) by buying one or more in any of our new styles.

For further information about the ALCS and "The Dugout," please click below.

From guest writer Mike Westfall of Progressive Boink:

This is my first spring living in Florida, and accepting the Rays as my new home team would be a lot easier if the local news didn't report so rosily about it. I'm used to the gloom and doom of Philadelphia, so I'm still trying to figure out whether they mean it in a sarcastic, "Aw, that's so cute," way or not, because it sounds like some of them really, genuinely think that this could be the Rays' year for - you know what? I don't even know what for. It's like the sports reporters are live from Bizarro World.

And the more I think about it, that would explain the Rays' excellent spring performance a lot, by actually treating March like it counts.

The boys from the Bay get ready for RAYPRIL®, after the jump.

Next steps in the Tampa Bay Rays revolution:

1 - Change name to "The Tampa Bay Rays of St. Petersburg."

2 - Incorporate Ray Charles into logo.

3 - Fill the big touch tank with straight lines that begin at a certain point and extend forever in one direction.