Cubs @ Rays The Storylines: 1) Lou Piniella returns to St. Pete. 2) A possible World Series preview? 3) Can they actually fill the stadium with the Cubs in Town? The Action: About as exciting as a 3-2, 3-hour 30-minute, 8 1/2 inning game can...

I was pressing the panic button”  –Evan Longoria Courtesy of Yahoo! Sports: TAMPA BAY 3, CHI CUBS 2 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Ticker)— Cliff Floyd and rookie Evan Longoria homered to spark the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-2...

CLEVELAND -- I missed about half of last night's 3-2 Cubs loss to the Rays, still on the road back to Chicago from Toronto and Cooperstown, but arrived at my hotel room in Cleveland (a convenient halfway stop, where I'm going to check out the Rock...

Cliff Floyd and Evan Longoria each popped solo home runs as the Rays edged the Cubs 3-2 in the first of a three-game set at Tropicana Field. Eric Hinske also drove in a run for Tampa Bay, which has won three of its last four games. Scott Kazmir...

Dumbass Cliffy wants a Cubs-Rays World Series Stranger things have happened, but none since Jesus walked on water. From the Trib: "Cubs-Rays in the World Series? I think it could be, I really do," Floyd said. "I don't think we lack in...

After the offense broke up Scott Kazmir’s no-hit bid & tied the game in the 5th inning, the Cubs’ bullpen was unable to get it done tonight. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays held off a furious 9th inning rally to beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2...

The Rays Confidence Graph will appear every Wednesday and is a look at how much confidence Rays fans have in the Tampa Bay Rays . The graph is designed to give us a look at how our emotional bias as Rays fans fluctuates through time. The "confidence"...

Willie R.U. Stargellin, sends this along… Strength of schedule is calculated by adding wins and losses of each team’s opponents, with allowances for home field advantage (currently 14.32%) and history (recent games weighted a bit more than earlier...

No, the gathering was three - count ‘em, three - of the four managers in Rays history under one roof. There was Piniella, inaugural Rays manager Larry Rothschild (now Cubs pitching coach), and current Rays skipper Joe Maddon. If only we could have had..

Overheard on Rays radio postgame show, Rays up to 31,000 attendance tonight, looking for as much or more tomorrow. ( Last year's season average was 17,000 +).

After the surprisingly impressive Blue Jays blogs , we've wandered back into an Astrosesque Tampa Bay Rays blog world. There's the MVN blog , which seems to do a good job of keeping track of things. There's the SBN blog , doing what SBN blogs do. And...

Next Game Chicago Cubs @ Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008, 6:10 PM CDT Tropicana Field Carlos Zambrano vs Andy Sonnanstine Complete Coverage > ...

Time for another Rays Week in Review Week in Review: 6/9-6/16 Overall Record: 40-29 Standing in the East: 2 nd Place, 2.0 Games Behind Week Record: 3-3 Best Game: 6/9, 13-4 W against the Angels Worst Game: 6/11 L against the Angels The Rays...

Get us back on track, Big Z So, everyone will have to forgive me these next two days because I'm still a little scatterbrained from vacation. I really still don't know what's going on with the team besides Soriano's broken hand (dammit) and the...

Darn those resilient Tampa Bay Devil Rays! They must be on a mission in '08 the same as the Cubs. Spoiling Lou Piniella's return to Tropicana Field his former team slipped past the Cubs for 3-2 win. It all came down to one influential game-saving...

Broadcast: 411 Hosts: Sneetch, Lou & Sheps Airdate: 2008-06-18 Length: 31:03:00 File Size: 21.3 MB

  There's just something about the Rays that make me nervous.  Actually, scratch that - I know exactly what it is about the Rays that scares me.  They are proof that even the best team in baseball can be made to look like posers when playing a...

Beat Kazmir!

Ugh. Artificial turf. Only three more days till baseball in sunshine at Wrigley!

This preview will be abbreviated, because, in Full Geek Effect I will be watching the Incredible Hulk tonight.  The Cubs are travelling to Tampa for what will prove to be a very tough three games.  The Rays are hard to beat in Tampa, and they will...

How can anyone not like the Cubs? Tonight the Cubs pack up their vericose veins and white shoes and head to Del Boca Vista to take on the perennial laughing stock Devil Rays. Only this year they aren't so funny. In fact, they're pretty damn...

THE GOOD: There is a video on YouTube in which Dwayne Staats compares Evan Longoria defensively, to Mike Schmidt , who won 10 gloves. But we wonder if Schmidt ever made a play to win a game the way Dirtbag did last night. Playing deep,...

Evan Longoria just misses the Rays tank as his home run puts the Rays back on top of the Cubs 2-1. Evan now has eleven home runs, and 27 of his 53 hits have gone for extra bases....

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP 2008 - Scott Kazmir 6-2 8 8 0 0 0 0 51.2 34 11 10 2 16 54 1.74 .97 W-L G GS CG SHO ...

Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview SP Ryan Dempster SP *Scott Kazimir   8-2, 2.81, 75 K, 35 BB, 89.2 IP 6-2, 1.74, 54 K, 16 BB, 51.2 IP ...

B-REF PREVIEW | GAMEDAY | WEATHER | ACB CHAT ROOM Scott Kazmir vs. Cubs hitters :  10-43, HR Ryan Dempster vs. Gays hitters: 2-16, 2B Time and TV :  6:10, CSN Reed Johnson has faced Kazmir a lot.  He’s 8-31...

RAYS 3, Chicago 2 Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, FL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E L Chicago 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ...

Next Game Chicago Cubs @ Tampa Bay Rays Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008, 6:10 PM CDT Tropicana Field Ryan Dempster vs Scott Kazmir Complete Coverage > ...

Is it reasonable to reduce a three-hour, thirty-minute ballgame to a pair of ground balls that, combined, consumed all of 20 or 25 seconds of the evening? Of course not, but here goes: The telling moments for me in Tuesday night's 3-2 Cub defeat at...

Cubs down 2-1 in the top of the 7th.  Reed Johnson doubles with 2 outs.  Ryan Theriot batting.  3-1 count.  What does Reed Johnson do?  Gets thrown out trying to steal 3rd base.  Yep.  The scrappy white...