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Aki picks his moment
Boston Red Sox 1 - Tampa Bay Rays 2 I kind of feel this morning as though I need to set up an auto-complete for the blog, where I can just press a couple keys and make a whole paragraph about a battling performance appear... Yesterday, I wondered whether the good or the bad Edwin Jackson would turn up. Well, he was wild, but the good kind of wild, definitely putting his last two starts ...
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Aki picks his moment
Rays from across the Pond — I kind of feel this morning as though I need to set up an auto-complete for the blog, where I can just press a couple keys and make a whole paragraph about a battling performance appear... Yesterday, I wondered whether the good or the bad Edwin Jackson would turn up. Well, he was wild... You can read the rest of this entry HERE at RAP's new home

The Roots Of A Rayvolution
Bugs & Cranks — It began thus…. The word our man in Scotland keeps using again and again is “Battling.” Now, obviously, it’s far too early to start thinking about when the Rayvolution began. But when it is time, we’ll likely point to Spring Training. To when we first saw that our Devil Rays would be not only awesome, but awesome battlers. We may point to March 5th when Carl Crawford ran over some Houston catcher. We may point to March 8th when ...

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