Between the terrible attendance, and the awul stadium(think any of the bowl style baseball/football stadiums of the 70s), the Rays are gonna have to win this year.. I did see Joe Mcmaddon on MIke and Mike this morning and he was ever the optimist suggesting that payroll isnt important and that what matters is execution. Right... because its so much fun to know that you have to have everything go right with very little room for error whereas if you are a team like the Yankees, you dont really have to worry about much of anything, because you can just go out and buy what you need. Im sure I said something similiar before, but this is bad for baseball. As long as teams like the Rays( and i think we all know there are quite a few in a similar spot albeit with a touch more payroll), continue to be in this spot, its going to be a long summer for fans in these cities for years to come. Some sort of salary cap similar to football needs to be in palce in baseball and the sooner, the better.
