Rays Even Series Heading to Boston

They won't go down without a fight.

I have to admit, I've been a skeptic all season. But after last night, I might be on the bandwagon officially. I just loved the way that they just kept coming back, and see-sawing with the ever so heralded Boston Red Sox (America's Team) in an absolute marathon of a baseball game. "We did not want to go to Boston down 0-2,” said Evan Longoria, who homered for Tampa Bay. “It’s 1:30 in the morning and we pulled it out.” It's just amazing to see the way these "kids" (i.e. B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria, Dioner Navarro) can hit, you combine them with Carlos Pena and Cliff Floyd, (who crushed a Josh Beckett offerring over the gate in centerfield, and I thought was dead and buried after last year) not to mention one heck of a starting rotation and an overall successful bullpen, last night wasn't the best proof of that but you gotta tip your cap to Dan Wheeler for going 3 and two-thirds for the Rays. I could almost now see the Rays winning this series, with the help of home-field advantage, or at least taking it to seven games.

In a way my skepticism could have been jealousy because the Rays remind me of my team, the Milwaukee Brewers, but they are just better in every aspect of the game, at least for this season. I was secretly wishing the Brewers could meet the Rays in the World Series so we could make all the big shots in the MLB front office cringe by having two of the smallest markets in the Fall Classic this season.

See ya 'round