For as long as I can remember, I have been a Pittsburgh Pirate fan. I'll spare you the sob story, but being the fan of such a lousy baseball team has me seriously considering breaking the ninth baseball commandment: "Though shalt not covet your neighbor's baseball team." I am seriously jealous of Tampa Bay Ray fans right now. I want that team and if watching them doesn't make you drool a little, too, you're lying to yourself. Look at this team. Evan Longoria's already set a record for homers in a playoff sereis by a rookie and he's slugging over .900 in the ALCS. He just turned 23. B.J. Upton is at .313/.400/.633 with two monster home runs. He's 24. Carl Crawford has nine hits in 18 at-bats and even though it feels like he's been around forever, he's just 27. James Shields and Matt Garza, the emerging aces? 25 and 24, respectively. And when you factor in guys like David Price and Scott Kazmir and Carlos Pena (still only 30) and minor leaguers Wade Davis and Jeremy Hellickson ... wow.
The key part? This isn't a fluke. This Rays team isn't the Rockies. They didn't catch fire and sneak out a wild card win because the league collapsed around them. They won the best division in baseball and they're beating the snot out of the defending World Champions at Fenway Park. This team is so good and so young that the things they're capable of in the next few years that they can afford to keep everyone together are almost unfathomable. Enjoy watching them. You know you want to.
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eric kazmir? what a loser, its scott moron!
haha mikes right you bandwagon chump. you suck at writing and this whole article is junk. maybe if you grow your sideburns another 6inches you will actually become a better writer, you silly hippy
It's fixed. And gee whiz, thanks for pointing it out in the most polite fashion possible, gentlemen.
hey i gotta amuse my fellow redsox fans with something after the horrible beatings at home. btw you look(and even respond to criticism) like eric from that 70s show, you should take another picture of you sitting around a table with smoke rising up. I foresee a strong fan following if you do hahaha
TK, you are not amusing your fellow Red Sox fans or anyone else for that matter. You sir, are a dolt.
Who the hell is Scott Moron?