The most significant road trip in Rays franchise history continues in Boston, where the Rays have yet to beat the defending World Series champions this season. ...more

September 8, 2008

The other night I tried to read part of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, $18) while I was very sleepy, which meant that the story, which is hard enough to follow when you're fully awake and completely engaged, took on a dreamy quality that I sort of enjoyed. After all, it sometimes reads as if Pynchon wrote the thing in a similar state. ...more

August 31, 2008

What was hurting for LHP J.P. Howell a week or so ago? What wasn't? ...more

August 23, 2008

What a story it would have made. ...more

August 19, 2008

Closer Troy Percival learned from Rays orthopedist Koco Eaton on Monday that he can forgo arthroscopic surgery for the loose cartilage in his right knee if he can tolerate the pain. ...more

August 19, 2008

When the Rays departed Tropicana Field nearly two weeks ago, Joe Maddon hoped his team would be able to break even on a 10-game trip to Seattle, Oakland and Texas. And that was before he knew he would lose three key players - Carl Crawford, Evan Longoria and Troy Percival - along the way. ...more

August 18, 2008

The Rays return from their longest road trip of the season uncertain how many games they will be able to play during a scheduled three-day homestand. ...more

August 18, 2008

The mood in the Rays' clubhouse before Wednesday's game was decidedly mellow, with a string of Bob Marley tunes wafting from the speakers in place of the usual hip-hop selections. ...more

July 31, 2008

Dioner Navarro has been pretty busy since the Rays lost their seventh straight game Sunday in Cleveland, so perhaps it was a bit easier for him to brush aside the way the first half ended. ...more

July 18, 2008

Whatever happens today in the Rays' final game of the first half, they will have assembled the best run of play in franchise history. And they also will know that the way they have sputtered into the All-Star break will only renew doubts among those who still can't quite believe they have come so far so fast. ...more

July 13, 2008