With their 13-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in game #4 of the ALCS, the Tampa Bay Rays, baseball's worst team last year, are one victory away from the American League pennant and their first World Series appearance.
The Rays started the year as a 50,000-to-1 shot to win the World Series. Creative Loafing's staff is hard at work buidling a time machine which will allow us to travel back to April, place our cumulative salaries on the team and use our winnings to de-bankrupt the company and save print journalism from certain doom.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2008.