User:StPeteRays

Formerly known as EaglesFanInTampa since starting in 2005. I'm a longtime editor, but just dipping my toes back into the editing pool after a decade-long hiatus. Go easy on me, please. I'm still working off of 15+-year old wiki-coding I have stored somewhere in a wrinkle of my gray matter I forgot existed.

My thoughts
At some point, I'll be getting back to work on WikiProject Tampa Bay. However, right now, I'm doing odd jobs as there's only 24 hours in a day and I have other, more monetarily gainful goings on. As I get more time, I'll get back to the way things were.

Come see what I'm working on now; it's right here in my sandbox (or what I'm also working on in my 2nd sandbox)!

My travels
Airports I have been to: Amtrak stations I have arrived to/departed from: Interstates that I have completely traveled on:
 * ABE
 * ACY
 * ATL (layover only)
 * BWI
 * CLT (layover only)
 * DAL
 * DFW
 * IAH (layover only)
 * ILG
 * IND
 * MCO
 * MIA
 * MSY
 * PHL
 * PIE
 * PIT
 * SNA
 * TPA
 * TPA
 * ANA
 * BWI
 * LAX
 * NOL
 * NRK
 * PHL
 * TPA
 * WIL
 * I-4
 * I-10: (AL, FL, LA, MS)
 * I-210: LA
 * I-310: LA
 * I-12
 * I-20: (LA, MS)
 * I-24: (GA, IL, KY)
 * I-35: (OK)
 * I-35E (TX)
 * I-35W (TX)
 * I-135: KS
 * I-235: KS, OK
 * I-45:
 * I-345: TX
 * I-49: (LA)
 * I-64:
 * I-664: VA
 * I-65:
 * I-465: IN
 * I-865: IN
 * I-68
 * I-75: (FL, GA, TN)
 * I-175: FL
 * I-275: FL
 * I-375: FL
 * I-475: GA
 * I-76: (NJ)
 * I-176: PA
 * I-276: PA
 * I-476: PA
 * I-676: PA
 * I-77: (NC, SC, VA)
 * I-78:
 * I-278: NJ
 * I-478: NY
 * I-79: (WV)
 * I-80
 * I-180: PA
 * I-83:
 * I-283: PA
 * I-84 Eastern: (MA, PA)
 * I-85: (NC, VA)
 * I-86 Eastern: (PA)
 * I-87 Northern:
 * I-787: NY
 * I-87 Southern: (NC)
 * I-88 Eastern
 * I-90:
 * I-190: MA
 * I-290: MA
 * I-95: (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NJ, NC, PA, SC, VA)
 * I-195: FL, NJ
 * I-295: DE-PA, DC-MD, FL, VA
 * I-395: DC-VA, FL, MD
 * I-495: DE, DC-MD-VA
 * I-595: MD, FL
 * I-695: DC
 * I-895: MD
 * I-97

(Italics indicates routes I haven't completed in an entire state yet, but have completed some of their auxiliary routes. If a mainline [i.e. 1- or 2-digit interstate] doesn't have state initials, it means I've clinched the whole route.)

US Routes that I have completely traveled on: (Italics indicates routes I haven't completed in an entire state yet, but have completed some of their auxiliary routes. If it doesn't have state initials, it means I've clinched the whole route.)
 * US 1: (DC, PA)
 * US 301: DE, FL, MD
 * US 2
 * US 202: DE, PA
 * US 13
 * US 19
 * US 19W
 * US 219: NY
 * US 22
 * US 322: NJ
 * US 30
 * US 130
 * US 40: (DE, NJ)
 * US 80
 * US 280: AL
 * US 92
 * US 192
 * US 98: (AL, MS)


 * Still something you don't like? Yell at me here...go ahead, I can take it!

My sporting arenas
Here's the home venues I've been to for any professional and college sport:

Pros:
 * MLB
 * Citizens Bank Park – Phillies
 * Marlins Park – Marlins
 * Oriole Park at Camden Yards – Orioles
 * RFK Stadium‡ – Nationals
 * TD Ballpark+ – Blue Jays
 * Tropicana Field – Rays (and D-Rays before that), Tuskers† (my first pro football game on 10/30/2009)
 * Veterans Stadium† – Phillies


 * NHL
 * Amalie Arena – Lightning
 * BB&T Center — Panthers
 * Nationwide Arena — Blue Jackets
 * The Spectrum† – Flyers
 * Wells Fargo Center – Flyers


 * NBA
 * Amway Center – Magic


 * MiLB:
 * Charlotte Sports Park — Stone Crabs†
 * Hammond Stadium — Mighty Mussels
 * Joker Marchant Stadium — Flying Tigers
 * McKechnie Field — Marauders (my employer for the 2012-14 MiLB seasons)
 * Roger Dean Stadium — Cardinals
 * Spectrum Field – Threshers (my first experience with MiLB on 9/5/2009)
 * Steinbrenner Field — Yankees
 * TD Ballpark — Blue Jays
 * Tradition Field — Mets


 * Miscellaneous pro sports:
 * Al Lang Stadium — Rowdies, USL
 * Amalie Arena – Storm†, AFL†
 * Amway Center – Predators†, AFL†; Solar Bears, ECHL
 * Dover Downs – NASCAR Winston Cup Series (around 1995ish, my first — and last — NASCAR event...never going to another!)
 * Freehold Raceway – Harness racing
 * Hertz Arena — Everblades, ECHL
 * Raceway Park – NHRA races
 * Streets of St. Petersburg – IndyCar Series

Colleges:
 * Edmunds Center — Stetson Hatters basketball
 * FAU Arena — FAU Owls basketball
 * Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena – JU Dolphins basketball
 * Moore Gymnasium — B-CU Wildcats basketball
 * Raymond James Stadium – USF Bulls football
 * UCF Arena — UCF Knights basketball
 * UNF Arena – UNF Ospreys basketball

Here are the Spring Training venues I've been to:


 * Al Lang Stadium – (D-)Rays§
 * Spectrum Field – Phillies
 * Chain of Lakes Park‡ – Indians¶ (to watch the final game ever played there)
 * Champion Stadium‡ – Braves (to watch the Rays' regular season games there)
 * Charlotte Sports Park – Rays§
 * Ed Smith Stadium – Reds¶, Orioles
 * Hammond Stadium — Twins
 * JetBlue Park — Red Sox
 * McKechnie Field — Pirates (my employer for the 2012-14 Spring Training seasons)
 * Space Coast Stadium‡ — Nationals
 * Steinbrenner Field — Yankees
 * TD Ballpark – Blue Jays

† - No longer exists

‡ - On its last legs — either close to demolition or mothballed.

§ - moved from old and busted digs (though it still stands in a fantastic location) to new and cheesy digs...seriously, can't $27,000,000 do better than that???

¶ - sold out and moved to Arizona for their spring training.

+ - Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Blue Jays played first half of 2021 season in Dunedin, and therefore counts as a MLB stadium.

My edits
Slowly, but surely, I'm moving on up! I just made my 4000th edit! Here's a list of my key milestones to date:

4000 - Clearwater, Florida 3/2/09

3000 - List of sports teams in Florida 3/19/08

2000 - Delaware Route 41 7/13/07

1000 - CN Tower 2/1/07

500 - Talk:Glendora, New Jersey 12/20/06

1 (not counting help question) - Commodore Barry Bridge 2/26/06

My miscellany
 My pic was the RPOTD on October 17, 2007!