After completing a 162-game season in baseball's toughest division by finishing with the best record in the majors, the Tampa Bay Rays are done, having been eliminated by some team from Texas that had never even won a postseason series. I can't be too upset because the starting pitching had been weak coming into the playoffs and there is no way this team would have beaten the Phillies, anyway - but still, the Texas Rangers?!? Are you !#%&@* kidding me? I walked into a bar last night just in time to watch the Yankees erase a 5-1 deficit against these Rangers with such authority that former player and majority owner Nolan Ryan looked as if someone had just forced him to eat his own vomit. Watching Texas roll over against the Yankees is not going to ease my Rays pain.
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| I don't have a snarky comment to do this photo justice. It stands on its own. Courtesy of Bill Simmons' twitter feed; it's obvious he just took a picture of his television set. |
The Rays were built to beat the Yankees and the Red Sox, and they did, but they couldn't solve Rangers ace Cliff Lee, and ultimately that's all that mattered. Luckily the end of baseball season will always coincide with the middle of football season and the impending arrival of basketball season. That will make things easier, but following a baseball team is tough. 162 games in the books and they look like the real deal all year, then suddenly they flame out against a team from Texas, of all places (I'm not a big fan of the Texas sports teams, if you can tell. The state itself is fine; I've been there a couple times).
Someone told me the other day not to worry about it because there are more important things in life than sports. Isn't the main reason sports are so important simply because they are not important at all? The Rays are a distant third behind Duke basketball and the Carolina Panthers in my heart, but they are here to stay and we'll see what happens next year!
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