(Three of them about B.J. Upton) 1) I was at the game, so didn’t have the benefit of announcers: Is Rafael Soriano hurt? He went those 4 outings in a row, then Maddon bent over backwards to give him…not just ample rest, but excessive rest before the All-Star break. Last night’s decision making made me [...]
Posted tagged ‘Tampa Bay Rays’
Five Things About Last Night’s Yankees-Rays Game
17 July 201010 Things the Rays Should Do to Compete for the World Series
27 June 2010The big “news” tomorrow on mainstream sites will be about B.J. Upton being lazy or combative or a bad teammate or whatever other euphemism writers want to use. Don’t listen to any of it. Upton has his flaws, including struggles vs. elite right-handed pitchers with good fastballs (see below). Everything else is noise. The secondary [...]
Controversy Over Reverse-Jinx
13 June 2010Not everyone is on board with today’s reverse-jinx.
10-Foot Poll
24 May 2010SportsNation poll up right now on the front of ESPN.com: How will the Rays’ season end? Win World Series Win ALCS, Lose World Series Win ALDS, Lose ALCS Make Playoffs, Lose ALDS Miss Playoffs SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! STOP JINXING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Are What You Train To Be
10 April 2010Kevin Payne just wrote a blog post for Rotosynthesis in which he accused Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon of bad judgment by leaving David Price out for 111 pitches, with a big lead, in tonight’s start against the Yankees, after leaving Matt Garza out for 114 pitches in his first start earlier this week. [...]
Guest Post: Jeff Passan’s Rebuttal
8 April 2010Yesterday, Yahoo national baseball writer Jeff Passan wrote a column expressing his disappointment that Carl Crawford would soon be leaving the Tampa Bay Rays and that small-revenue teams in general continue to face an uphill climb against the richest teams in baseball. Being the Rays junkie that I am and an incorrigible optimist, I felt [...]
It Won’t Be THAT Bad, Jeff
7 April 2010There are two things I’ve tried to avoid doing too often here on the blog. One is to use other writers’ work as the impetus for a post. There’s an infinite number of great topics out there waiting to be covered, such that there shouldn’t be any screaming need to piggyback on someone else’s writing [...]
Baseball’s Working Poor
15 March 2010An early contender for my favorite clip of the year. During my book research, I spent nearly two hours interviewing Tampa Bay Rays outfield prospect Fernando Perez. In retrospect, should have been two months. Perez is a Columbia grad, a published poet and an occasional contributor to the New York Times – as well as [...]
2010 MLB Over/Unders
11 March 2010Every year around this time, I exchange emails with a smart baseball friend – we’ll call him Rollie. The conversation starts with me asking if Rollie has seen an updated list of Over/Under Win totals for MLB teams. A few days later, he collects his list, emails it to me, and we spend the next [...]
So nice to have a team to root for again
26 July 20101 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E DET 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 TAM 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 – 5 3 0
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Tags: Tampa Bay Rays, No-hitter, Crizazlebeans, Sports, MLB, Matt Garza
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