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Monday, 4 a.m. The record itself suggests mediocrity. Two wins, two losses, too inconsequential. Two wins in four games. Nothing special. Nothing dazzling. Nothing that would suggest you are among the Super Bowl favorites. It’s a middle-of-the-pack kind of record, a record that suggests the disappointment matches the dazzling. And today, that says everything about […]

Sunday, 4 a.m. Is this any way to go into the American League playoffs? The Tampa Bay Rays, one night after clinching the post-season, took the night off offensivenly in a 2-1 loss to Houston. With the defeat, the Rays are three games behind Toronto and one-and-a-half behind Seattle. Content beyond this point is for […]

Saturday, 4 a.m. They are in. Through it all, through the injuries and the weak hitting and the maddening slumps and the basetunning errors, the Tampa Bay Rays have made the playoffs for the fourth straight year (and eighth of their history). Yeah, you can still debate how long they will last. Certainly, they will […]

Friday, 4 a.m. Turns out, Hurricanes Ian did not cause the only power shortage in Tampa Bay. Turns out, the Tampa Bay Rays had their own. And the question remains: Can this team hit enough to hang around the playoffs for any significant amount of time? Content beyond this point is for members only. Already […]