The Rays kept things rolling by defeating the Yanks 7-1 in the first game of a four game series. The Matt Garza we were sold on in the trade showed up last night getting ground balls and keeping hitters off balance all night. I think we would all like to see him get the pitch count down (108 in seven innings) but all was good. It appears that the bats have awakened also. Aki and Longoria both had two hits helping their averages and Jonny Gomes looked like Rickey freakin’ Henderson last night. The ‘fat catcher’ kept up his hot streak getting three more hits raising his average to .362. I’m trying not to get too excited but good lord these guys are fun to watch right now. Some notes now for all.

  •    More fans need to show: There should be no excuse now for all of you not going to these games. I realize that I only live two miles from the stadium so I’m not saying everyone should make it to the same amount of games I do but less than 15,000 for the Yankees? Get off your asses and go people!
  •    Yankees fans are useless!: What a bunch of useless wastes of flesh you Yankers are. Your “team” is in town, the team you follow instead of your hometown one, and you are either too ashamed of the sorry performance of your billion dollar empire of misfits to show or you’re too afraid to get some back from us Rays fans who have been tortured long enough. Either way you are all sorry ass little punks for not going! The ones who did show up started off being arrogant and cocky as usual but quickly became quiet and were gone before they could see their team finally score off Gary Glover. If your that disappointed in your ‘pin-striped pretty boys’ then go let them know about it, or come over from the dark side and join us. Idiots.
  •   All Star vote: Don’t forget to get your votes in today. I got a total of 50 in yesterday. I did 25 online and 25 at the game. The online voting doesn’t take long, maybe 5 minutes, so get it done.
  •    The parking situation: Just a note here and a complaint to the city of St. Pete. Everyone needs to know that the city is not being nice about the parking. I got a parking ticket on Saturday night for parking in one of the 2 hour zones. They have recently changed all the signs downtown from ‘2 hour M-F 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.’ to ‘2 hour all the time’. You can park free if you have groups of 4 or more, if you don’t just find a safe place or pay the $10, it’s better than getting a ticket for $17.50. This is pretty petty of the city, they never enforced this rule before and with changing the signs it appears they’re going after it now. Jerkoffs!

Source: ESPN