Earlier this month, I was concerned about our man Jonah Keri.  After my post, Jonah and I traded some emails where he basically fell on his sword for not fleshing out his point.  I was stunned.  I thought the only way to make it in media these days was to be a blowhard that never  [ Read More ]

[Chris, our Canada-based correspondent, has taken his last opportunity to see the Rays in person this week on their final visit to the north land.] By Chris Glover Jose Molina appears to be what we would generally describe as intelligent. He’s made a living as a good defensive catcher who understands how to call a  [ Read More ]

Watching Desmond Jennings hit two home runs in two swings yesterday had me thinking back to another athletic leftfielder’s first few years in the Majors. When Carl Crawford showed up in Tampa Bay, we knew he could run.  We also knew he was an above-average fielder.  But no one knew what kind of hitter he  [ Read More ]

I had a thought the other day, a thought I actually intended to pitch to Brendan for a revival of Point-Counterpoint, but I couldn’t get my stuff together in enough time to make it happen. So, rather than P-CP, I’ll open it for discussion here.  Hey, it’s Friday, and no one wants to think about  [ Read More ]

Ten years from now, if you needed to describe the 2011 Tampa Bay Rays, you’d probably just send people to the box score from August 24, 2011.  The starting pitching was fantastic, the offense was infuriating, but they managed to win in some inexplicable way. This team has become bizarrely interesting because they are such  [ Read More ]

Perhaps the Rays’ never-ending stadium issue was resolved by Mother Nature last night.  According to the morning papers, the Trop was struck by lightning before last night’s first pitch temporarily disabling banks of lights and causing some speakers to “drone.” Based on baseball movies, we now know what is going to happen. Rays fans are  [ Read More ]

Yesterday, the Rays offense, and their power-hitting DH, bailed out James Shields who was terrible against the Seattle Mariners. Read that again.  Opposite day, right? Up is down, day is night, Seattle can hit, against James Shields, but the Rays can hit more, including their DH. Weird.  I was there with my law firm and  [ Read More ]

Sorry I didn’t get a post together this morning.  Things have been a little crazy. But, I just read Jonah Keri’s Rays piece for Grantlandwhile eating baby carrots at my desk and I have to wonder, did Simmons corrupt our guy or did he just sell us out to get some Boston readership?  Something funny  [ Read More ]

If you’re gonna be a homer, you may as well be open about it. The Rays could be down by four heading into the bottom of the 9th and it would only take a quick Matt Joyce single to get many of us calculating how the team can win the team. Granted that such optimism  [ Read More ]

In sports, it is always safe to hate on management. They are ungodly wealthy and have exclusive control over something that is so important to us. To quote Eddie Cicotte’s character in Eight Men Out “You don’t understand how a ballplayer can agree to throw the World Series?  That’s because you never worked for Charlie  [ Read More ]