This is what I woke up to.
"Let me get a cup of coffee first,"
She wasn't having it.
There's something to be said about mood swings and the menstrual cycle. I didn't have ovaries or a uterus but if there's one thing I've learned about my Strawberry, when she's pissed, it's better to turn one hundred and eighty degrees and head the opposite direction.
I found myself on the empty morning street of 7th Avenue on a Friday. The smell of roasting coffee swept through, the roosters roamed around the benches and the damned were starting their day by being, well, more damned. I took a drag off my cig and realized baseball was back.
I jumped into my little tin can of a car and headed south to Sarasota...
It was the first time in going to Ed Smith Stadium and was impressed by the get go of things. Some fuck head charged me twenty bucks to park underneath a semi truck. God punishes the wicked. The area is pretty desolate and the smell of meth loomed in the area. What else is new in rural Florida? I was harassed for wearing my Rays jersey from some Orioles fans who were well into their twilight years, which is to say, geriatric, which is also to say, they'll go into cardiac arrest and let the new generation continue on living relatively sooner than later. Florida is God's waiting room after all...
I was excited to Micah Johnson, Willy Adames, Jake Bauers, Nick Solak, Ryan Shimpf, Jesus Sanchez, Johnny Field, Justin Williams and seeing Chirinos take the bump. Chirinos threw some gas. Bauers and that swing. I wasn't too impressed with what I saw of Joey Wendell. Nick Ciuffo is for real. That bat has some pop to it. The Rays better never let that one slip away anytime soon. I am pulling for Micah Jonson. If we could get a dude like that who works at bats like that lead off, that would be great and he looked good on the base paths as well. It was also nice to see former Stone Crab Brandon Lowe get some in there at the plate. The lineup was pretty left handed heavy. Dalton Kelly was also in the house and got a couple of AB's too. Bauers struck out a couple of times but that swing looks absolutely beautiful. Also was nice to see Willy Adames get a hit and snag an RBI. All in all, this was a look into the depth of the system and was deeply impressed. Rocco and Montoyo were patrolling the dug out and saw new pitching coach (OG Devil Ray) Kyle Snyder up in the mix. There's no denying it, there is a new look to the Rays (again).
"Thanks for Tim Beckham," some guy in a bright orange jersey yells at me.
Huh?
"Keep him,"
He looked on in a perturbed way.
"So Rays fans do exist?" he laughed.
I asked myself the question often too.
"I think so,"
He laughed again.
"You're funny man," the guy chuckled.
His belly rumbled too.
"I try not to be,"
Apparently this translates to ordering someone a beer (when you're funny).
"You like Bud Lite bro?" he asked.
Fuck no.
"Yes,"
He shows up with two blue bottles.
The sun set in the west and the Rays went on to win 6-3. It was nice to see baseball was back.
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