The Rays are OK, but They're Still a Pathetic Franchise

The Red Sox are absolutely terrible right now. They swept the Orioles, great. My softball team can compete with the laughable shit Baltimore throws out there on a daily basis. They go into the dingy, disgusting hellhole that is the Tropicana Dome and manage 2 runs on a pair of solo homers, the last of which came leading off the 6th inning. But they lose in 13 innings on a walk-off homer by Evan Longoria, meaning they went 24 outs against the Tampa bullpen without scoring. Jon Lester must want to commit a murder in the clubhouse right now. He's the best 9-7 pitcher in history.

The team goes 7-45 in the game. The bottom 5 in the order went 1-22. 13 innings and only 2 players get multiple-hit games. It is like they all took a collective dump in their pants and are waddling to home plate, swinging like chicks, all the while hoping none of it dribbles down their legs.

And don't even get me started on this facility. A half-full, poorly lit piece of crap dome that for whatever the reason needs to have speakers turned up to "make everyone deaf" volume and needs to play music while the game is being played. There is no worse development in recent sports history than music being played while action unfolding. It is a crutch used by home stadiums when your crowd doesn't know how the hell to properly cheer for your team. Nothing more, nothing less. Commissioners around sports should get together and ban it. I don't give a shit if a group of 38-year old groupies with fake tits and orange skin would rather listen to the latest top 40 hit while they stare at the players. The game -- whether it is basketball or baseball -- doesn't need these people. I'd rather be entertained by music between innings and during timeouts and be able to watch a game while it is going on. And Tampa, take those cowbells and shove 'em up your collective asses. It is even more mindless than those retarded thundersticks. You are all such losers.

You might wonder, well, aren't the Rays good enough to receive some of the credit for holding the Red Sox off in this game? The answer is no. Those frauds left the bases loaded with nobody out in the 8th inning and the 10th inning. The only guy who did anything was Longoria, who ought to send Terry Francona one of his groupies for pitching to him in the 13th inning with 2 outs and a runner on 3rd base.

It has become a popular opinion to think that these 'scrappy' Rays toiled in the cellar of the AL East for all this time and learned how to become a winning team. And they got in a ton of fights with the Red Sox. So somehow people deem this as 'standing up' to the Red Sox during all that time that they sucked ass and got in fights. You know what it was? A bunch of shitty players who were also punk bitches. That's all. Pedro hit a guy in the first inning and the lunatic charged the mound. Brian Daubach protected Pedro during that fight, so Roberto "Career Loser" Hernandez decided he was going to throw at Daubach every time he faced him from that point forward. The good players they have now weren't a part of that group of inferior human beings. The only holdovers are Carl Crawford and "Big Game" James Shields (the most undeserved nickname in the history of sports, if not human existence). And Crawford never got directly involved with any of those fights and the only time Shields did anything, he ended up getting punched in the face by a guy named Coco.

Now? They aren't 'scrappy' -- they have good players. The Red Sox should probably drill Longoria at some point on Wednesday and send a message of their own. The problem is, the media would make absurd claims about how the series history is wrought with such 'messages' when in fact, the Red Sox have never sent a message pitch in the direction of a Rays hitter. They've never HAD to, because the franchise has been such an abject failure for the majority of its history. The Rays of the past just THOUGHT messages were being sent. Because they were stupid, inferiority-complex ridden and just generally frustrated because they were so shitty.

Back to the awfulness that was Tuesday night, what the hell was Francona thinking in the 13th inning? I mean, Ben Zobrist was on deck. BEN ZOBRIST. He's had a nice year, but he blows. I'm not saying the Red Sox were going to get him out, but pitching to Longoria in that situation is one of the dumbest things Francona has done all season. The Red Sox just have had their heads firmly lodged up there asses basically since July began.

And what's wrong with Jason Bay? You KNOW you're a pussy if J.D. Drew is playing through an injury and for whatever the reason, you're sitting on your ass in the clubhouse. At least he didn't accept whatever absurd contract offer the Red Sox gave him during the all star break.

Of course tonight, the Yankees beat the incredibly overrated Roy Halladay. Roy Halladay, who routinely throws complete games but loses. What does that mean? He can throw a lot of pitches. Way to go buddy, enjoy your career of losing in Canada. 10 hits, 5 runs, complete game. What other pitcher is allowed to do that? Why has this ass-clown achieved such status? Probably because his team is so bad, they don't really give a shit about anything else.

Anyway, Sox are 1.5 games back of the Yankees and have a game to go in the shithole dome, then 4 in the Bronx. With Brad Penny going on Wednesday, gotta figure 3-3 on this trip would be a success at this point. Can't wait til the Sox get to face Joba. I bet he pumps his fist at some point.