A dive bar’s bathroom can be a special place, but there’s not one as special as the women’s room at The Hub in downtown Tampa, and Hub lifer Chloe Davis has devoted her life (OK, well, a few hours a week) to celebrating it via her @the.hubs.bathroom Instagram account. Lately, since The Hub was to-go only, the feed has been of feet (yum), but the entire thing just feels like a love letter to a dive, and that’s certainly worth remembering as the joint navigates reopening.—Ray Roa
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Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays’ on-field performance should be enough to keep fans tuned into the game on TV, but the club found a way to get followers into seats during the pandemic, too—cardboard cutouts. The 18-by-30-inch cutouts cost Rays fans $40-$60 and are in the seats during Rays home games (and now, the playoffs). Not as great as the real thing, but any kind of friendly face will do in this day and age. mlb.com/rays —Ray Roa
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Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day Breonna Taylor Tweet
Social justice is finally an easy thing for brands to get behind these days, and the Tampa Bay Rays still went all-in on Opening Day when it wrote, “Today is Opening Day, which means it's a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor,” on Twitter. Fans revolted (many have probably come back to jump on the playoff bandwagon), but the Rays haven’t let up in the team’s belief that, “Systemic racism is real,” and needs to be dealt with. And as last week’s court decision proved, the Rays are going to need to do a lot more screaming to find the justice the team seeks. mlb.com/rays —Ray Roa
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