By a standard that holds that a team deserves to win in proportion to what it’s endured, the Rays have as great a right to a trophy as anyone else. Cheering for the Cubs is like carrying on with a rotten tooth; cheering for the Rays has, until this year, been like being stabbed in the face repeatedly with a butter knife.

This particular article was also very well written. Good find. Loved the Toe Nash reference. Remember when he was the next coming of the Natural? He left out Tony Saunders though, but then again, an entire Shakesperean-length novel could have been written about the tragedy that was the first 10 years of this franchise.