It's a nice afternoon for grilling, sipping beer and tossing baseballs, so that's what plenty of people are doing in parking areas outside Tropicana Field, some four hours before the Rays' first-ever World Series game.

Jeff Raudenbush of Orlando was wearing bright red Philadelphia Phillies gear and dissing everybody who wasn't.

"The only real fans here are Phillies fans, everyone else who's not a Phillies fan is a fair-weather bandwagon fan," said Raudenbush, 23.

In that latter group he includes his roommate Hunter Welch, who is a Chicago White Sox fan -- but came to the Trop in a Rays shirt.

   --  Matthew Albucher, Times staff Writer