Tile Outlets Sponsors Tampa Bay Rays

Are you a Tampa Bay Rays baseball fan? We are and wanted to share with you details about how we're involved this season.

Tile Outlets of America is proud to sponsor the Tampa Bay Rays on 105.9 The BUZZ and invites fellow fans to register to win a $100 gift card for tile, stone, mosaics & more which will be given away every month to a Ray’s fan during the baseball season!

>> Go to the Rays page on TileOutlets.com to learn more and register.

Background on the Tampa Bay Rays

If you're new to the Sarasota or Tampa Bay Florida area and haven't yet had a chance to watch the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team play, here's some background information about them:

The Tampa Bay Rays are based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and play at the Tropicana Field. Founded in 1998, they compete in Major League Baseball in the American League East Division.

The Rays' Mascot is Raymond - official name: Raymond Ray. With the fuzzy face of a walrus and the bulbous blue belly of a "mutant manatee," Raymond is "actually a previously undiscovered species of dog known as "Canus Manta Whatthefluffalus" or in layman's terms, a Seadog." If asked about his flooring preferences, he surely says he loves tile best after grass...

Meet Andy Freed From the Rays Broadcast Team

The announcer who provides play-by-play detail on the games and voices the Tile Outlets of America commercials you hear during the Tampa Bay Rays games is Andy Freed.

2015 is Andy's 11th season with the Tampa Bay Rays broadcast team. Before that, he served as the voice of the following baseball teams:

• Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox
• Double-A Trenton Thunder (Red Sox)
• St. Lucie Mets of the Class-A Florida State League

He is active with the ALS Association. "In addition to reciting Lou Gehrig's famous speech at Tropicana Field every year on "ALS Night," he emcees various local events including their annual "Ride to Defeat ALS."

Andy lives in Parrish, Florida with his family.

(You can learn more about his sports play-by-play career by clicking on this link.)

We didn't get a chance to ask Andy about his flooring preferences. We're hopeful, though, that tile features prominently in his home especially if he has followed Lulu's #TileRemodel home transformation.

Learn About the Tile Outlets Tampa Bay Rays Sponsorship Promotion

When you're at the game, be on the lookout for Andy Freed and listen carefully as he makes announcements on 105.9 the BUZZ. (That's how you'll learn about the validation code ;-).)

Then, visit the TileOutlets.com Rays Page and register for a chance to win.

If you register from this page, use "Blog" as the validation code.

When you're done, be sure to start dreaming about some tile as you sing,

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Just buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.

'Take Me Out To The Ball Game' from Wikipedia