May 19, 2006
LUCKY TO BE IN THE CENTRAL:
Bad Ray to finish road trip (JOE COWLEY, 5/19/06, Chicago Sun-Times)
"[Bleep] the Cubs,'' Guillen said. "I don't care about the Cubs. I won't think about the Cubs until 3 o'clock [today]. I'd rather play Detroit right now than the Cubs.''With good reason.
After all, it isn't the Cubs who are standing alone in first place in the American League Central, looking down at the Sox in second. It's the Tigers.
A two-run home run by Tampa Bay's Damon Hollins in the seventh inning ended up being the difference as the Devil Rays beat the Sox 5-4 in front of 22,665 at Tropicana Field.
The win not only gave the Rays the three-game series but dropped the Sox (26-14) a game behind the first-place Tigers after they swept Minnesota and won their seventh straight game.
There's no shame in being worse than the worst team in the best division. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 19, 2006 10:44 AM
And the real Vasquez begins to rear his head. How you like Vazquez now Ozzie?
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at May 19, 2006 11:11 AMWait'll Ozzie leaves him out there for as many pitches as have already begun to undermine the other guys' arms.
Posted by: oj at May 19, 2006 11:18 AMExcept that the BadSawx and DamnYankees would still be about 3 games behind both the Sox and Tigers, and only a couple ahead of Oakland and Texas and the Blue Jays.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 19, 2006 1:13 PMThe Tigers are in first place? Maybe Algore is right about the end of the world being at hand.
Posted by: Jayson at May 19, 2006 1:16 PMThere'll be shame if they lose to the Cubs this weekend.
Posted by: jdkelly at May 19, 2006 4:17 PMI was astonished to learn recently that the Tigers won a World Series as recently as 1984. They've been horrible as long as I can remember.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at May 19, 2006 4:21 PMYeah, I forgot that too. Around the time of Thomas Magnum.
Posted by: jdkelly at May 19, 2006 5:38 PM