One of the really cool things about last night is the way everyone seems to have a cool story about where they were or what they were doing when it all went down.  It’s almost like the baseball equivalent of the JFK Assassination (does that make Robert Andino Lee Harvey Oswlad, Evan Longoria Jack Ruby,  [ Read More ]

I couldn’t sleep.  Could you? I still cannot process what just happened.  The chain of events between 7-0 in the bottom of the 8th (I’ll admit it, I started to channel surf, I couldn’t watch our boys end like that) to the Wild Card (I was following Baltimore-Boston through text messages from my dad) is  [ Read More ]

Maybe I’ll be more coherent in the morning but, for now, my only thoughts can be summed up in the call I made to my college roommate, Jason Wallen (a New Hampshire native and Sox fan):   “BWAHAHAHAHAHA!”

With the success of Moneyball, the movie, some folks have been speculating whether Jonah Keri’s outstanding book about the Rays will follow Moneyball to the big screen.  Last night, I couldn’t help but think that Jonah wishes he wrote about 2011, not 2008.  Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t change a thing about The Extra  [ Read More ]

During last night’s AL East mega-chat, Rays fans were publicly chastised by Red Sox fan “Flash” — an Orlando resident — for not being “REAL fans.”  (he used the capital letters, I am merely conveying his sentiment).  In fairness, I believe “Flash” was inspired by a previous discussion of the Red Sox pink-hat wearing bandwagon-ers  [ Read More ]

Sorry for the late notice.  Chip from It’s About the Money and Fire Brand of the AL has set up a monster, last series of the year, AL East chat.   Be there tonight to defend the Rays!

I was thinking about the great weekend our skipper had last night while gnashing my teeth over Boston and New York’s barn-burner (silver lining: both teams will be exhausted today, that could be the crack we need to tie this race up) and something interesting occurred to me: I have never heard Joe Maddon complain  [ Read More ]

If the first three hapless efforts in the Bronx had lulled me into a baseball-induced coma, last night’s effort was electro-shock therapy.  I’m back baby.  (Anyone notice Desmond Jennings shout “CLEAR” right before his at-bat in the top of the first?).  I was all set to sit down and write about Matt Moore.  There isn’t  [ Read More ]

I’m numb. I sat down to write this morning and just stared at the computer.  I finally understand the feeling an old friend described when he was covering the Bucs during their Monday night collapse against Peyton Manning. No words came out. Does anyone actually want the Wild Card here?  Boston keeps the door ajar  [ Read More ]

How’d it go last night? Were you as distracted as I was? After I got home from a late meeting, the Mrs. and I had a discussion about the best way to take in this final week of the season.  My first instinct was to have the Rays on TV and the Sox on an  [ Read More ]