He essentially says that the Rays are a dynamic young team, they’re getting better, their young players will ensure that they are doormats no longer, blah, blah, blah, blah. What I don’t get is why he feels the need to spend a large amount of space emphasizing the fact that the Devil Rays of the past ten years have sucked. He’s not exactly breaking new ground there, and I don’t get his point in continually reinforcing that fact. He seems to only use it to comfort himself as to the Red Sox’s superiority, which he does somewhat more straightforwardly elsewhere in that article. Overall, yes. He’s an asshat, but the point of his column was correct. These aren’t your older brother or sister’s Devil Rays.