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Rays no-name starters keeping them alive in AL East

June 22, 2015 general

Monday, 5:35 p.m. They are spackle and duct tape, and together, they are holding the Tampa Bay Rays together. You had never heard of them. You were unaware they were coming, and once they got here, you barely noticed they were here. They are spare staples and chewing gum and a dab of airplane glue. […]

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Shouldn’t A-Rod have expected a day like this?

June 21, 2015 general

  Random Thoughts. Hello, I’m Alex Rodriguez. And when I said that I didn’t know this day would ever come, I mean it. Even though the directions did say “Three Thousand Hits in a Jar.” – Just think of it this way: For two rounds at least, there are more Tiger shots for TV to […]

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Will the Lightning’s success impact youth hockey?

June 20, 2015 general

Saturday, 6 a.m. (Each week, the readers take over Ask Gary. They send in a question, or a couple, and we all talk about the world of sports.  Think of it as a radio show where you don’t have to be on hold. Join us and ask a question, make a comment or be funny. Send the […]

Tagged as: all-star game, analytics, Lightning

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Nationals clobber the Rays as even non-pitchers struggle

June 17, 2015 general

Wednesday, 12:05 a.m. First, Wilson Ramos hit a home run off the first baseman. Then, he hit one off the second baseman. As it turns out, even volunteers couldn’t slow down the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. The Nationals banged out 23 hits and scored 16 runs in an easy victory over the Tampa Bay […]

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Rays’ Souza walks five times in easy victory

June 16, 2015 general

Tuesday, 12:26 a.m. The Washington Nationals let Steven Souza Jr. walk in the off-season. They did it again Wednesday night. Souza walked five times as the Tampa bay Rays rolled to a 6-1 victory over the Nationals Monday night, improving the team record to seven games over .500 and stretching their lead in the AL […]

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Cabrera, of all players, is the Rays’ hitting star

June 14, 2015 general

Sunday, 5:20 p.m. The Tampa Bay Rays were outnumbered. They seemed to be outgunned. The other guys had Chris Sale, who kept sending Rays back to the dugout on a regular basis. And all the Rays had was shortstop Adrubal Cabrera. As matchups go, it was like having a pawn against a queen, like having […]

Tagged as: Cabrera, Cash, Karns, Rays, Souza, White Sox

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Proposed Olympic sports include chess, Frisbee

June 14, 2015 Florida State University

Random Thoughts: – Here’s the reason Demar Dotson returned to Bucs’ camp. He checked the leverage bowl, and he was fresh out. – Steve Kerr lied to the media? Big deal. If coaches were Pinocchio, they would all look like swordfish. – I guess we can assume that Michael Sam didn’t care much for the […]

Tagged as: Bryant, Cromartie, Jenner, Kerr, Lynch, Sam, Solo, Winslow

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Rays beat White Sox, go 5 above .500

June 14, 2015 general

The Tampa Bay Rays won a back-and-forth game against the Chicago White Sox to move five games over .500 in the league standings Saturday. The Rays won by scoring two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning when Steven Souza Jr. singled in David DeJesus and Jake Elmore singled in Souza. Shortstop Alexi Ramirez […]

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Ask Gary: Is reporting a story harder these days?

June 13, 2015 general

Saturday, 6 a.m. (Each week, the readers take over Ask Gary. They send in a question, or a couple, and we all talk about the world of sports.  Think of it as a radio show where you don’t have to be on hold. Join us and ask a question, make a comment or be funny. Send the […]

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Rays’ Butler makes up for time he waited

June 12, 2015 general

St. Petersburg On a million fields no one ever goes, in a million games no one will ever remember, he imagined days like these. Someday, Joey Butler thought, he would get his chance. Someday, some team would turn to him and trust a significant part of a season to him. Someday, after all the doubts, […]

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