Apparently you didn’t care enough to remember they haven’t been called “Devil Rays” for over ten years. 
It’s a shame the team is a commercial failure. Bad stadium, bad location.
Didn’t they recently break out the ol’ Devil Rays jerseys for a game?
How 'bout the Mariners? Now sitting in last place after a hot start of 13-2.
Well, Robinson Cano is Public Enemy #1 in Queens for two recent bizarre displays of lack-of-hustle, and apparently the entire borough wants Mickey Callaway sent out of town on a rail. They were swept by the Marlins this weekend, a sporting accomplishment roughly equivalent to Lennox Lewis being knocked out by Lisa Loeb.
There’s a reason “Mets” sounds a lot like “Mess.”
If my team traded for a 36 year-old coming off a PED suspension, taking on the remaining five years of his contract, I would think they were completely nuts. I have no idea if Callaway is a good manager, but the dysfunction in Flushing starts with the Wilpons and infects the entire organization. For the sake of the fans I hope they sell the team.
I always group the Jets and the Mets together in my head, and not just because of the rhyming names. It’s always seemed that the teams had more of a blue-collar fan base, compared to the Giants and Yankees, and both of them have seemed to often suffer fro strange or incompetent management.
Jets/Mets have always been linked and mostly shared a fan base. They were both seen as upstart newcomers for many years after their founding, and, of course, they both played at Shea Stadium for decades.
Both fan bases are strongest in Queens & Long Island, Brooklyn is roughly split and the rest of the NY metro area is Yankees/Giants. Though in recent years the Yanks passed the Mets for fan in every county & borough apparently. Yanks actually have more blue-collar fans and far more rich fans at the same time.
Jets ownership was OK but unsuccessful under Hess, Mets suffer from the Wilpon’s but Doubleday was a pretty good owner. Without question though the Dolan’s are the worst owners (Knicks & Rangers) in the area and maybe in all of sports.
Can’t speak for the Jets as I don’t know anything to speak of about football, but in my part of NY State (a few counties north of the Bronx) pretty much all the blue-collar white guys you’ll meet are Yankees fans. My auto mechanic is a Yankee fan, the guy who cuts my hair is a HUGE Yankees fan, the guy who repaired my drywall is a Yankees fan. Drive past a construction site or something and there’ll be lots more Yankees stickers and such than Mets. --Now, the Yankees rule in every demographic around here, so there’s that. But it seems especially true among blue-collar guys. Just my 2c.
After a great 8th inning comeback to take the lead, the Cubs 'pen again gives up late scores to lose the game (in extra innings, but whatever).
On the better news side, Darvish looked…decent up until the sixth. Still looking for that first Wrigley win though.
Hopefully this is just a little May slump that they can come out of, but that bullpen is going to keep things interesting all year long. Any late trades need to focused on shoring up the reliever corps (and get a damn REAL closer).
Oh, and DAMN, Harper has an absolute cannon of an arm, doesn’t he?
The Strange Dynasty Of The San Francisco Giants Is Over. (Yes, It Was A Dynasty.) | FiveThirtyEight Maybe next year…(
nah).
Of course the Jays decided the one day Vladdy Jr., the only player on the team really worth paying to see, should sit was Victoria Day, a national holiday, after a 25-day stretch in which he got six days of rest.
Of course it was the one game I could go to. Of course they claim this was planned way in advance but didn’t mention it until game time. Of course the manager and GM are pointing fingers at each other like a couple of bush leaguers. Of course at the same time they were resting the young star, and injury forced anotehr player out of the lineup and instead of reinserting Guerrero, they had the starting catcher DH, thereby taking away his rest day.
Of course as the game started, the team proudly announced to the angry fans that a Blue Jay had been named AL player of the week - Vladimir Guerrero Jr.! Who is celebrating it on the bench!
What horseshit. They’ve admitted it was stupid, which doesn’t pay me back. Naturally they got absolutely destroyed. Of course the roof is broken and after a month they still haven’t fixed it, and they can’t open it, making it grey and dreary.
What a shit experience. We left after six innings. I won’t be back this year.
Hey, even though Vlad Jr. was on the bench, you still got to see the 2019 AL Rookie of the Year! Talking about Michael Chavis, of course.
So what happened between Adam Eaton and Todd Frazier when they were both White Sox? Inquiring minds want to know.
Another guy with the White Sox at that time, Adam LaRoche, had gotten permission from the team to have his teenaged son in the clubhouse. If memory serves, LaRoche pushed the envelope on that, to the point where his son was there all the time, and apparently some players complained. The Sox asked LaRoche to dial back how often his son was in the clubhouse, which led to LaRoche quitting the Sox (and retiring from baseball entirely).
Eaton liked LaRoche, felt that the team had lost a leader over the incident, and apparently tried to step in and fill that role. Frazier apparently wasn’t impressed by Eaton, and his attempts at leadership.
So, the London Red Sox/Yankees games will be played on artificial turf! Really? They’ve had over a year to figure this out and now their first glimpse of baseball will look like field hockey. Why not send the San Diego chicken and bullpen carts for that true 1970’s experience?
Reports of doubleknit uniforms with pullover tops and Morganna the Kissing Bandit have not yet been confirmed. 
Thanks for the info. Eaton and Frazier were chatting amicably on the field before tonight’s game, so I guess they’ve patched it up.
Better than that, the turf will be laid on top of gravel, on top of a tarp, protecting the soccer field, which is … grass.
What’s the point of playing baseball in London anyway? The Brits aren’t going to suddenly embrace the sport. They barely tolerate cricket.
These games should be played in baseball crazy Havana or Santo Domingo.
What’s the point of playing a game somewhere you can’t make baseball any more popular?
Of course it’s not going to become the national pastime of the UK, but a rich country of sixty-five million people is fertile ground for making a little extra dough even if you only capture a small fraction of one percent of people.