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The Tampa Bay Rays Are for Real!
By Craig Brown...If you didn’t know it before this week, a three game sweep of the Boston Red Sox should have made you sit up and take notice. This is a team that is built for October baseball. Obviously, it didn’t happen overnight. Born from the ashes of an expansion draft in 1998, the Rays have been the doormat of the AL for just over a decade.
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