Another Season in the Books.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009The Tampa Bay Rays 2009 season is now in the books, and it is quite a collection of stories.
Beloved main characters were lost. Rocco Baldelli defected to enemy territory. Jonny Gomes found success in a different city, and Scott Kazmir headed to LA to try to become a star.
The team’s story got off to a […]
Heck yeah, Jefferson Niemann
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Thanks for being good at baseball and saving the bullpen and staying focused and striking out AJ and fighting for the win. You’re cool big guy.
I feel like I should maybe thank Bobby Jenks a little bit too?
Others deserving fist bumps…
Barty - Nice night at the plate, especially the lead off single in the ninth […]
Garza Needs a Return Visit to the Baseball Guru.
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Well the Rays managed to sweep the Royals, but Mr. Garza looked a little unhinged. Time for another session with the Baseball Guru.
Guru - Back so soon Mr. Garza?
Matt - Mr. Maddon made me.
Guru - So what’s the dealio?
Matt - I’m getting pissed off all the time again.
Guru - Who are you pissed at?
Matt - Everyone, […]
They’re Coming Back Folks…
Friday, June 12th, 2009Can you feel it?
Longo hit one out to straight away center. Welcome back O great one.
Pena is finding his way. Driving in four is hot!
Navi made some solid contact. Promising.
Brignac even got in on the action.
The bullpen didn’t allow a run. Did you hear that? The bullpen didn’t allow a run. Wahoo.
Pat the Bat is […]
Well It Wasn’t Pretty…
Thursday, June 11th, 2009but we’ll take it. Rays win!
There were a few positives:
Niemann did work his way out of trouble a couple of times, although 3.2 innings is the opposite of stellar.
The bullpen actually did what they are paid to do. Shocker, I know.
Carlos Pena looked way better. He even hit a home run to the opposite field. […]
The Rays are Broken.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Is it my fault?
I wanted the Rays to find a way to get Aybar’s bat in the line-up, and Pat the Bat got a kink in the neck.
I wanted Price to be brought up, and Kazmir got hurt.
I wanted Percy gone, and now he is.
I wanted Zobrist to get more playing time, and Aki got the Tom […]
Well that sucked.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This game was frustrating because the Rays really seemed to outplay the A’s. It just felt like they would put that run up there first. Let’s play the blame game.
James Shields pitched a helluva game, but his offense couldn’t help him out. They deserve the lions share of the blame. They had a runner on […]
Some Strange Sunday
Sunday, May 17th, 2009That was for sure the strangest game of the season. First it starts off with a line-up problem. A problem that nobody clued the viewer in on. So we watched people walk around and huddle up. All while Staats and Kennedy speculate on what’s going on. Their first instinct was the Indians pitcher was wrong in […]
Sweep the leg, and slide into third place.
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Sorry for the programming delay, but four o’clock games are not exactly ideal in my world. I did however catch the last half of last night’s game, but I was pretty much out of gas by the time it was over. Good thing nobody really depends on this blog for anything.
When I got home it […]
Turn that frown upside down.
Thursday, April 30th, 2009(photo Espn.com)
Okay I don’t know if Spring is in the air or what but that was so hot. Mister Garza was damn near perfect. The team really needed a charge and boy did he deliver. He even proved that Pedroia can’t hit the high inside fast ball. If only Jacoby Ellsbury wasn’t so bloody fast… Barty […]