Rays vs. Rangers Series Preview, and Other Random Bits of Ephemera

The Rays will start a series against the AL West leading Texas Rangers in Arlington on Monday. Coming off a lukewarm six game home stand, Tampa Bay looks to right the ship (in a manner of speaking) and return to their five runs per game form. Beyond being bested by Oakland, I’m not really certain …

Looking Backward While Moving Forward (Rays vs A’ series preview included)

The Rays did it! Following a very successful 8-2 road trip, the good guys took their most recent three game home set against a pretty hot Royals, following their 5-3 win Wednesday. The story of the day was James Shields. Juego G seems to have bounced back from his mid-season slump. Posting a 7.2 IP/5 …

Excerpts from Against Me! guitarist perseveres with Rays My buddy, James, was recently interviewed for a piece on ESPN.com. He didn’t say whether the swarthy John Kruk took part in the interview in any way, shape or form. However, one would hope that James took the necessary precautions to ward off the essence of the blood-sausage …

Looking Backward While Moving Forward, Rays vs. Fish 6/16/12 (starting lineup included)

How I wish the Rays could butt heads against the Marlins every night! The Rays, lead by a 7 IP/1 H/0 R/3 BB/8 K line posting Matt Moore, absolutely destroyed the Fish in a one hit 11-0 blow-out at the Trop. Maybe the Rays should get all Dickey on things and challenge the one hit …