As many words as total hits:
That sucks
Seriously, words fail. C'mon Rays!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Red Sox, Twins, White Sox, Angels Available in Group Break
Go here for pricing and the rest of the available teams. 5 boxes of 2010 Bowman Chrome!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Group Break Teams immediately available: Twins, Tiger, Sox and more!
Go here for pricing and the rest of the available teams. 5 boxes of 2010 Bowman Chrome!
Monday, October 4, 2010
This one is for the Royals fans
You know who you are.
This was a largely meaningless series for the Royals at the end of a lost season but the Royals absolutely gave the Rays all they could handle in earning the split. And then you had Mitch Maier (or however you spell it) working Soriano for a walk with 2 outs in the bottom of the 12th, then Yost pinch-hitting Blanco for Dyson, then Blanco with the double. I know the Royals finally have some depth in the minors, but a team that battles into extras on the last day of the season isn't too far away from turning it around. I know all the clichés about waiting til next year but seriously, the Royals look ready to make some noise.
Go Rays!
This was a largely meaningless series for the Royals at the end of a lost season but the Royals absolutely gave the Rays all they could handle in earning the split. And then you had Mitch Maier (or however you spell it) working Soriano for a walk with 2 outs in the bottom of the 12th, then Yost pinch-hitting Blanco for Dyson, then Blanco with the double. I know the Royals finally have some depth in the minors, but a team that battles into extras on the last day of the season isn't too far away from turning it around. I know all the clichés about waiting til next year but seriously, the Royals look ready to make some noise.
Go Rays!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
¡¡¡¡AL East Champs!!!!
Your Tampa Bays Rays!
Congrats gentlemen. Now let's finish off the Royals game and do some damage in the postseason.
Congrats gentlemen. Now let's finish off the Royals game and do some damage in the postseason.
It's like a Holliday
Many thanks to Eric Patterson of the Boston Red Sox for helping make this day possible.
Wade Davis takes the hill for the Rays against Sean O'Sullivan and the Royals. Longo is STILL out but hey, this year it's about winning the whole thing, not necessarily the division. Though, truth be told, I'd love to win us some division.
As reported in other sources, if CC hits another HR today (his 20th) he'd going the exclusive 20/40 club. This is interesting in a Trivial Pursuit, alignment of the stars kind of way, but not in a way that's statistically meaningful. Dude's had a great year with a high in power and consistently good speed. What more can I say?
And speaking of CC, anyone catch the in-game video of him discussing the GG? You could hear the frustration in his voice just talking about it. Seriously, how long can AL managers overlook him? CC's biggest problem has always been hype, that is lack of it. The stats are there, no doubt.
Have a good one everybody. Go Rays!
Wade Davis takes the hill for the Rays against Sean O'Sullivan and the Royals. Longo is STILL out but hey, this year it's about winning the whole thing, not necessarily the division. Though, truth be told, I'd love to win us some division.
As reported in other sources, if CC hits another HR today (his 20th) he'd going the exclusive 20/40 club. This is interesting in a Trivial Pursuit, alignment of the stars kind of way, but not in a way that's statistically meaningful. Dude's had a great year with a high in power and consistently good speed. What more can I say?
And speaking of CC, anyone catch the in-game video of him discussing the GG? You could hear the frustration in his voice just talking about it. Seriously, how long can AL managers overlook him? CC's biggest problem has always been hype, that is lack of it. The stats are there, no doubt.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Expectation Management: Postseason and Personal Edition
Update on the Oct/Nov Group Break scheduled for this afternoon. All systems go!
Truth be told watching the Rays the past few nights has been tough but, as the title implies, this is as much a problem with my expectations as with the Rays' performance. I think the Rays should go out and ROLL the O's and KC, especially guys like Millwood and Chen, but they got shut out. Why knows why? My grief has a lot more to do with what I expect at this point in the season versus what I expected in March. If you had told me then the Rays would have been assured a playoff spot and be battling for the Division Title on the last weekend of the season I'd have said, "Bring it on!" Of course now that those things have come to pass I'm greedy. I want them to win it all and do so now, $$@$ it!
As linguistic monkeys we're a lot like that as a species. We won't admit it but we expect things despite the fact outcomes may/may not be uncertain. We might say we plan for the worst and hope for the best but, more often than not, we entertain thoughts of the worst to inoculate us against it actually happening, as if fantasizing about a worst case scenario somehow assured us that it would never happen.
Which leads me finally to this: I want to apologize to all the folks with whom I've been in and out of touch over the past couple of months, group break participants in particular. I'm sure this is too much info, especially for a blog on baseball cards, but the compa had a miscarriage a couple of months ago. It was one of those events where, even though we both knew there are no guarantees a given pregnancy will come to term, the expectation was, of course, that it would. We were pretty unprepared for a negative outcome and it's taken me these months to get my head back straight.
Good news, of course, is that I'm back! Things are good, I'm catching up on business, looking forward to the postseason and getting back to things.
Go Rays!
Truth be told watching the Rays the past few nights has been tough but, as the title implies, this is as much a problem with my expectations as with the Rays' performance. I think the Rays should go out and ROLL the O's and KC, especially guys like Millwood and Chen, but they got shut out. Why knows why? My grief has a lot more to do with what I expect at this point in the season versus what I expected in March. If you had told me then the Rays would have been assured a playoff spot and be battling for the Division Title on the last weekend of the season I'd have said, "Bring it on!" Of course now that those things have come to pass I'm greedy. I want them to win it all and do so now, $$@$ it!
As linguistic monkeys we're a lot like that as a species. We won't admit it but we expect things despite the fact outcomes may/may not be uncertain. We might say we plan for the worst and hope for the best but, more often than not, we entertain thoughts of the worst to inoculate us against it actually happening, as if fantasizing about a worst case scenario somehow assured us that it would never happen.
Which leads me finally to this: I want to apologize to all the folks with whom I've been in and out of touch over the past couple of months, group break participants in particular. I'm sure this is too much info, especially for a blog on baseball cards, but the compa had a miscarriage a couple of months ago. It was one of those events where, even though we both knew there are no guarantees a given pregnancy will come to term, the expectation was, of course, that it would. We were pretty unprepared for a negative outcome and it's taken me these months to get my head back straight.
Good news, of course, is that I'm back! Things are good, I'm catching up on business, looking forward to the postseason and getting back to things.
Go Rays!
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