On Evan Longoria's Twitter:

@C_C_3 Sorry, I have no desire to become a Yankee. One of my goals as a player is to finish my career with one team.

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I think most of us who frequent this site are aware of Gabe Gross' unusual righty/lefty split this year (i.e. he's hitting righties like usual, murdering lefties), and after watching him nearly collect his second HR off lefty Renyel Pinto, I began to question the perception of Gross as a righty-only kind of guy. So, I took a gander at some of his statistics and produced a number of the following inquiries...

via cache.daylife.com

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Yeah, Yu Darvish was incredible, but China made it a game.

(image via web.worldbaseballclassic.com)

(For those that missed it, Japan beat China 4-0 in the Tokyo Dome this morning.)

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In 2004, the Rays definitively most successful season, they won a total of 70 games. Last year, a total of 66 wins. In '02, they mustered a scant 55 wins. Now, at the halfway point of what future generations will refer to as simply The Season, the Rays have a total of 49 wins.

That's 21 less than the best season.

That's 17 less than last year.

That's 6 less than '02.

The kicker: There are 54 games left as of Sunday night. If we go a paltry .500 in that span, we end the season at around 76-59.

So what does this mean to Joe Blow Rays Fan? Well, to me, it means that I'm declaring this season a premature success. I submit for proof:

Edit: Yeah, I know how many games there are within the season; but it's late, and I'm tired, but too excited about RAYS NUMBA ONE to be what the ancients referred to as "entirely or even somewhat accurate" in my "calculations."