Anybody who despises the current state of major league baseball, with its’ big-market team domination, has to be cheering for the Tampa Bay Rays to reprise their season of 2 years ago, when they shocked all the experts and wound up in the World Series. They are a solid young team with a great manager, Joe Maddon, and are off to a terrific start in the AL East. In order to stay where they are now, atop the division, they will have to hold off the top 2 poster children for big-market domination, The New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox are looking more and more like a team on the decline, but don’t count out the Yankees. They are a strong team that has had early-season injury troubles with a few of their older players – Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and now Andy Pettite. Power-hitting first baseman Mark Texiera has gotten off to a slow start also. The Yanks will most certainly make a run at some point and it will be interesting to see if the Rays can keep up with them.
MLB – Go Rays!
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Margaret
May 14, 2010 at 2:49 pm
It’s too bad the Rays don’t attract many fans. They have some really exciting players, especially Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford. (I really like Longoria’s commercial for New Era caps, btw). Florida fans are so fickle.