Baseball time!! Wait..he is gone???

As many of you know the time has at last come for the start of that wonderful American sport we all know and love: BASEBALL!!!! Ok, so maybe I am just a tad bit too excited about this, but I truly do love baseball! Am I the only one who cries at the end of the world series? Ok maybe I am. :)
The next lists of blogs that I will be doing will go through teams and tell who has left and who has arrived into your favorite team. These lists are ever changing at times it seems so please forgive me if some things change...will do my best to keep things up to date. The purpose of these next posts are to help you with the look of confusion on your face as you see your beloved team and say, "huh, when did he become a (insert team name)" or "hey wait! when did we lose him"?
Well, since I am in Tampa and my good buddy Suzette is a Rays fan and has waited patiently for these posts let us begin with the Rays.

Ok, as always bad news first...who the rays of lost. :(
During the offseason the Rays lost (brace yourself these names hurt): 2b Akinori Iwamura....told you it hurt....he went to the Pirates; P Jesse Chavez..sorry but do not remember you buddy; P Ramon Ramirez...went to Boston (BOOOOO) :); C Gregg Zaun..another one that hurts...went to Milwaukee; C Michel Hernandez to Baltimore; Gabe Gross....this one hurts the most to me...he is an excellent role model; P Troy Percival..yep..another loss; Brian Shouse a pitcher.
Yes, some big names were lost. What hurts the most is many of those guys were on the team that lead the Rays to their first ever A.L.East Championship title and first trip to the World Series...to all those guys the fans thank you.

Well....the good news now..who the Rays got.
During the offseason the Rays picked up: P Rafael Soriano from the Braves (this Mets fan says thank you btw); C Kelly Shoppach from Cleveland;
well..had others but were really no big names..at any rate these players did a great job the last few years in getting to the playoffs so do not give up on this team. These players will not give up for one second and this team as a whole will enjoy being the underdog team again! The Rays do not mind playing the big names like Red Sox or Yankees because they know they have owned these teams recently. This team shows teams like the Yankees that a great team can and does exist without the major bucks being spent...look out A.L.East..the Rays want a ring!!!