I get the respect that the Tampa Bay Rays have because they seem to do it every single year.

I remain highly skeptical of Tampa Bay hanging in there, especially with playing home games in a very tough, hot environment, and then mostly being on the road.

That's a good point.

And the talent question I have about this team, I still don't think it's Tampa Bay, but I am not surprised that the recency bias has it at 54% in favor of the

race. Well, you just have seen them have success over the last little bit here, and only in their

eight games over 500, and it feels like they're right on the heels of the of the of the of the Yankees and so what is it four in a row for them four

four in a row and six out of their last eight or so so they've they've just been good and they

played better than that I think they're like 20 out of their last 27 something of that nature

the razor played well for an extended period of time credit to them yeah and by the way Boston didn't

exactly miss a beat without Devers last night either. Well, they pitched well. That's really what happened.

I'm looking ahead into September.

The Yankees play the Orioles a lot at the end of the season.

That may not matter.

And they play the Red Sox three times and the Blue Jays three times.

They don't even see the Tampa Bay raise in the month of September. In fact, the last time the Yankees will face the raise will be a George M. Steinbrenner field

in the middle of August, which sucks.

You need more divisional games, man.

I mean, George,

Florida, in the middle of August?

Yeah.

Holy cow, that sucks.

And one last thing about the race,

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