I watched parts of the Rays’ seven consecutive losses on this last road trip. And guess what? It sure is more fun tuning in when they’re winning nail-biters at the Trop than dropping games on the road to average teams.

Rays contests can get pretty dull when journeyman pitchers for the Cleveland Indians are throwing balls over the plate and it looks like the Rays are using heavily perforated bats.

This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...