Red Sox / Tampa Bay - Game 19

And the man at the back said
Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz
- Sweet

Three things

1. The Red Sox and Devil Rays really don't like each other. The Yankees are hated because they are the guy who stole our girl (26 times). The Devil Rays are the guy who just for matters of chemistry - you hate on sight.

2. OK - I'll say it! The Devil Rays are racists. They have a hate of slow white first basemen. First they used Brian Daubach as a pin cushion and now Kevin Millar. Slow white guys like me are people too. If you prick us - do we not bleed?

3. Who knew it was "Ballroom Blitz"? All these years I thought they were singing "Barroom Blitz".

I bet part of the hate between these two teams stems from the fact that half the fans at the Trop are rooting for the Sox. That has to sting the home team.

Yesterday the Sox won 11-3 on the strength of 3 HR (solo shots by Manny and Ortiz and a grand slam by Jay Payton) and the fine start by Bronson "Death Wish" Arroyo.

Two quick stats snippets from the game:

1. Johnny Damon went 4-5 and has quietly rased his batting average to .333 (good for 11th in the AL)

2. Kevin Millar's OBP is an excellent .447 (5th in AL) but it is more than 100 points higher than his slugging (.328). I can't remember ever seeing a discrepancy that high. Some guys like Jason Kendall will have OBP about equal to their slugging but 100 point difference? That just looks strange.