The Rays Tank: Final Off Day

Final road trip...final off day...final series against the Red Sox that is entirely meaningless...this shit is getting depressing.

MAKE IT STOP.

But then it'll be all over and we'll be forced into a cold lonely dark winter sans baseball...

So bittersweet.

A wee bit unexpectedly torn up over here.

If you want to recap the season, here it is, courtesy of Andrew Friedman, Todd Kalas, and Ian.

Go Rays.

Links:

- MLB has decided baseball games need to be faster, so there's a committee meeting to brainstorm ideas...on how to make them faster. #rocketscience

- Baseball, in 24 hours.

- "How Jose Altuve Got to 200 Hits" ...with this swing:

- Sometimes there's crying in baseball, and when there is, it's so worth it:

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For context:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/aandro">@aandro</a>, a story to make you dusty: Guilder Rodriguez played more minor league games (1,095) than anyone EVER with no MLB experience.</p>&mdash; Jonah Keri (@jonahkeri) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonahkeri/status/514262819391680512">September 23, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And then his RBI won the game for the Rangers. Feel good stories FTW.