You guys know each other, right? They do now. The Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox play today, provided traffic lets up and the Boston team bus gets through. What's that? Oh, sorry, our fault: The American League champion Rays play the Red Sox today. ...more

February 27, 2009

It's a relief to travel around the Red Sox nation and be cheered as a 'conquering hero' from Tampa Bay. ...more

October 14, 2008

We're about four hours away from the first pitch tonight at Fenway Park as I sit to write this, and in a way that's a shame. Tuesday night's 5-4 victory by the Rays over the Red Sox was one you'd like a day or two to savor. ...more

September 10, 2008

Sports fans of teams known as perennial nobodies and/or relative newbies to their respective leagues should all be taking detailed, thorough notes right now. The Tampa Bay Rays, a team with a sub-.400 Won-Loss percentage over their first 10 years of existence, have finally found a combination that doesn't resemble a bowel movement and find themselves – as of Friday afternoon – a game and a half behind first-place Boston. ...more

June 21, 2008

He gets to the park early and pours himself in to the job. He once coughed up blood on the job. It's late October and the man, never a looker, looks exhausted. But he never tires of backing up his guys. Sunday, they backed him up, beating the Colorado Rockies, 4-3. ...more

October 29, 2007

On a cool Monday night at Fenway Park, Scott Kazmir pitched his way deeper into the fragile collective psyche of Red Sox Nation. ...more

September 11, 2007