Tampa Declining

The date: July 5th, 2008. The Tampa Bay Rays sat comfortably in first place, 5 games over the second Red Sox, 9 over the Yankees. They were the winners of seven straight, including a sweep of the Sox. Everything was perfect, nothing could go wrong . . .

Today is July 13th. The Rays have just lost their seventh straight. If Boston defeats Baltimore, a game that they’re winning 2-0, they will hold first place going into the all star game by half a game.

Now here is the real question: Which Rays are the real ones? The winners who seem like the only they are doing more than winning is having a good time, or the Rays who had their streak, but really are a second or third place team at heart?

GYA out

Tampa, don’t look now, but . . .

The Tampa Bay Rays have been the darlings of the MLB for almost two months now. However, after their 13-2 loss to Cleveland today they’re only up a game and a half over the steadily approaching Red Sox. Even as a Sox fan it’s been great to watch the Rays this year (and keep my fingers crossed that the Yankees don’t make the playoffs, and finish in third), but can they keep it up? They’ve lost four in a row, including two key games against the Yankees, which could have catapulted them to a much more comfortable lead in the AL East. This may just be a cold streak, and will wear off after the all star break, but they are a young team without much experience, and is it possible they’re hitting the rookie wall?
As far as the answer? Only time will tell.
GYA out

The Crazyness of Baseball

Just when we thought the AL East would stay the same forever . . . Yanks in last, and Rays battling for first. Talk about “doing more with less”, and “you can’t buy championships.”

Go Sox!

GYA

as if it wasn’t crazy enough the day after this post the Yankees begin to bounce back, the red sox begin to fall and the orioles suck again.

this that and the other guy, the cynical realist