If the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were a Canadian team, they wouldn't be playing in Canada anymore.  Instead the D-Rays are what the Montreal Expos became, just another bad American baseball team, with no identity that nobody cares about and they stink!  Why no calls for their contraction or re-location I ask?  This team in Tampa has to be about the biggest joke of a baseball organization ever, a disgrace, a mediocre Triple-A team at best.

Since their inception in 1998 the D-Rays have lost 90 plus games every year and are right on schedule this year with 84 to date.  They've also lost 100 games three times and 99 games twice.  And shame on the 2004 Toronto Blue Jays for letting them finish ahead in the standings at 4th with a franchise best 70 wins.  One might even argue the most significant victory for a D-Ray over the last decade is by the one that got Steve Irwin.

Their most recent series in Boston is only more proof of why this team needs to be done away with.  Incredibly enough the one game they did win was a 1-0 shutout.  Explain to me in game two of that series how one could blow leads of 4-0, 8-1 and 9-5 and go on to lose 16-10?  Then last night to blow a 4-0 lead again and a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 9th and get victimized by the same guy (David "Big Papi" Ortiz) twice, while Delmon Young on a catchable ball in rightfield was spinning around like a ballerina looking for an umpire to throw a bat at in a 5-4 loss.  What a pile of garbage this team is, you can take a team getting over matched and getting smoked say 20-0 but to get beat in virtually the same fashion blowing sizeable leads on back to back nights is dreadful.  At least the old Montreal Expos knew how to scout some pitching.

 This team is laughable, as laughable as their stupid non-retractable stadium with it's terrible lighting and stupid catwalks.  A building better suited for basketball or hockey or better yet demolition.  Look I don't know if it's a Tampa thing, that they're just slow starters, case in point the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tampa Bay Lightning who had some historically rough starts in their respective leagues but seriously come on!  Does anyone have any use for this franchise other than Yankee and Red Sox fans who get better seats for cheaper on their Florida vacation or O's fans whose team has been kept out of last place for years thanks to this sorry lot? 

Perhaps the solution is to move the D-Rays to Montreal.  Of course that's assuming they'd actually want them at all.