Is it over yet? Wow… ouch. The "highlights" of this spanking keep playing over and over in my head and I want them to stop; I'm not sure if the Rays are still getting their asses handed to them or if I'm simply reliving the pain mentally.

Allegedly around 13,000 other people were in attendance to watch this excruciating outing of baseball, in which the Tampa Bay Rays fell 5-13 to the Toronto Blue Jays. I can't say I especially believe that staitistic, as I surveyed the ocean of empty blue seats around me, but I know it shrank at an alarming rate as the sixth inning came and went.

Jeff Niemann got the start on the hill for the Rays and looked pretty good through five innings, much better than his previous outing, which had been the first since his return from the Disabled List. I remember scrawling in my game notes that Jeff's control started to wane toward the end of the fifth inning and that manager Joe Maddon should get the bullpen warmed up. Apparently he didn't get that little telepathic memo.

This article appears in Aug 26 – Sep 1, 2010.