Good news for the Devil Rays and Royals!

[lantaur]

They're playing the Yankees and Red Sox on Opening Day so they get to be on ESPN! Congrats!

 

[ondeadline]

[blue]I'm sure ESPN picked those games because of all the young talent on the Royals and Devil Rays

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

You know the old adage...early in the spring, large market teams are always ahead of the small market teams...

 

[Starman]

Oh thank god, I was afraid we were actually going to go 36 hours without the Yankees or Red Sox on ESPN. :

 

[zeke12]

As a huge baseball fan, I think it's nice that ESPN has finally decided to pay some attention to farm-team scrimmages.

 

[spnited]

I thought the good news was going to be the Royals and D-Rays seasons were cancelled .. kind of an advance mercy rule.

 

[zeke12]

fork no. The Yankees spent $200 million on that roster.

They have to have someone to beat up on...

 

[Freelance Hack]

ESPN is all about showcasing Gil Meche to see if he's really worth $55 million.

 

[zeke12]

Hey, it's Gil's world.

We're all just little people.

 

[Oz]

I thought the good news was going to be the Royals and D-Rays seasons were cancelled .. kind of an advance mercy rule.

Royals actually won the season series with the Red Sox last season, 5-4, despite six games being at Fenway. Just saying.

 

[doubledown68]

Being on vacation and all, I may not get a ticket to the opener. But methinks tickets for Thursday afternoon's Dice-K vs. Grienke showdown won't be hard to come by.

 

[doubledown68]

I thought the good news was going to be the Royals and D-Rays seasons were cancelled .. kind of an advance mercy rule.

Royals actually won the season series with the Red Sox last season, 5-4, despite six games being at Fenway. Just saying.

The Yanks 5-game sweep of the Sox probably did the Beaneaters in last year. But KC's 3-game sweep shortly afterward was the first shovel of dirt on the coffin.