I get this feeling, inside my bones...there's something special when watching a game at Busch Stadium. It must be nice to actually live in a baseball town. St. Pete is where the transient go to dry out in the sun and where Floridians get lured into some form of addiction albeit substance mentally or metaphysically. For reasons unknown, I was in some shit squalor off Central Avenue in St. Pete rubbing shoulders with this dude named Chuck.
"Hey man, come out back," he demands.
"Why? Game is about to come on,"
"It'll be worth your while," he chuckled.
Whatever that meant.
He escorted me into this dark alley and pulled out a little silver pipe.
"I don't have any bud,"
"Oh this is totally different," he laughed.
It smelled different and my intuition told me not to hit it.
So I hit it.
The weekend was for the players and they were wearing bright yellow hats and those funky jerseys that rip off the old Padres uniforms. As corny as they look, I dig them. They had all of these funky nicknames too.
For some reason, when Jake Odorizzi plays at Busch Stadium, he seems to bring his A game but not that Friday night. Only went 3.2 IP and gave up 3 hits, 3 runs (all earned) and walked four. Ouch Odo. Souza launched one into Big Mac Land. It goes without saying Steven Souza Jr. has shown was he is capable this year and hopefully will translate this into the next season. He could be a very big tool in the outfield (if not traded). The Rays pen held the down The Cards offense with a brilliant performance from Sergio Romo. This is how a winning team should look. Rays went on to win 7-3. Saturday went not-so-well. Hech and Duda knocked some runs in until the 9th inning when Boxy did what he's been doing all year and suck. Cards went on to hit a walk off two run bomb. Demoralizing.
Sunday Chris Archer took the bump against Lance Lynn. Arch went 7.0 IP, struck out 8 and gave up 5 hits. There is also rumors he could be traded too. With an affordable contract like his and a lot of talent, who wouldn't want Arch? The Cards are a team speculated to be interested and they have the prospects to give up for Archer. Lomo went deep twice and in the 10th to put The Rays ahead for the win. Why do I feel there are dark times ahead for these Tampa Bay Rays?
"So a big Rays fan are you?" Chuck snickered sarcastically.
"You could say that,"
The meth had me buzzing a bit and the neon yellow on their hats was glowing.
"I went to a couple of Devil Rays games growing up," Chuck announced.
This town did not deserve this team.
"Oh?"
St. Pete is where the old come to die and the northerners come to escape their brutal realities up north leaving a sociological purgatory of filth, religion and drugs throughout the land.
"I gotta go,"
He seemed even keel with his high and I barely escaped Central without driving straight into a wall.
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