MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STORIES:

HOW DO THE RAYS DO IT ?

So, let's get this straight: they lost their home stadium to a hurricane last season.

They play their games in the Yankees' spring training stadium in Tampa. Oh, and they are a low-budget team in the powerhouse American League East.

But don't look know, somehow the Tampa Bay Rays are currently only 1.5 games behind the powerful Yankees in their division

They have a top 3 run differential in the AL, which tells us that their success is no fluke. But we still don't know how they do it.

With a team with very few superstars, we must give due respect to manager Kevin Cash for continuing to keep the Rays competitive year after year under these circumstances.

WHAT ARE THE RED SOX DOING?

Many of us here are Astros fans, so bear with us, but we were really puzzled when the Boston Red Sox signed third baseman Alex Bregman.

Admittedly, we were hoping he would resign with the STROS, but beyond that, we wondered how this would go over with current third baseman and the team's best hitter Rafael Devers.

We see both sides of this issue. On the one hand, a superstar definitely deserves to be upset if a team brings in someone else and expects him to change positions.

Even the most ardent defenders of "team first" philosophy should agree that what the Red Sox did was unfair to their superstar. On the other hand, Devers probably could have handled it better, but ultimately we are on his side her.

We saw something similar in Houston, when the Astros already had an all-star caliber closer but signed Josh Hader to come in and then reduce the existing closer's role to that of a set up man.

This was Ryan Pressly, whose performance dipped and so did Josh Hader with the odd role vagueness that the Astros put upon both men.

Teams should really learn this lesson. This is not freaking fantasy baseball, where you try to add as many statistics and expect success to follow the numbers.

This is about building strong groups of individuals into a team that makes each other better. Egos must be respected, and roles should be clear and unambiguous.

HOW BAD ARE THE COLORADO ROCKIES ???

Its Saturday night, and we are checking MLB games and we switch over to the Padres-Rockies game to see a score of 20-0 (in the 6TH inning)

Mercifully, the game ended at only Padres 21-0 over the Rockies.

You wonder if MLB should implement the 'Mercy Rule' like they use in softball leagues.

So we double checked the standings and see that the Rockies are 6-33 and already almost 20 full games out of first place.

With all of this losing, one thing we noticed was that COORS FIELD was practically full to watch this unimpressive team on the field.

Bless those loyal Denver fans, but they deserve better than the product they are receiving on the field.

And we don't want to say this because it sounds like hypberbolic bullshit, but here we go:

THE ROCKIES COULD BE THE WORST TEAM IN MLB HISTORY

Damn, we didn't want to say it but it is true. Now, this is only JUNE, so the team can change. But, looking at their upcoming schedule and their division.....OOOF.

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