Is the Marlins don’t play the Yankees and Red Sox over 30 times a year, so I would think the Rays would get more national media coverage for that reason.

I am more worried about there being an obnoxious Rays Nation just as there is with the Red Sox Nation now where the fans invade every stadium the team plays in. I am glad though that my worries have been put to rest. I am probably going to buy a Rays cap within the next couple of weeks.

I’ve been to Fenway and it’s awesome how the crowd will get into it without having to be prompted by the scoreboard and hearing random chants like “Fuck-you My-ers” when Mike Myers is brought in to pitch for them. The bandwagon sucks and a lot of them show up at Fenway but I sat next to a few older couples my two games there and you could tell they’d been there through the worst of it. It was a lot of fun. I just am afraid that going back now would be decidedly less fun, because nothing is worse than Red Sox Nation these days.

The only bad thing about losing a ton of weight is that when I was a big fat guy, no one noticed, but now that I’m ~average size, it’s definitely quite apparent.

then yes.

Nah, I bought a big package of pink Mariners blankets and shit for my friend’s newborn girl a couple of years ago. I helped create another sad M’s fan.

But yeah, I guess it’s good to go through this pain. If the M’s win a World Series before we die, it will be all the better.

During the 9th I just leaned over to her and said “See, your dad is raising you right—you’ll know that good things don’t come easy in life when you’re older.”

We have 5 #1 starters, we don’t need another.