Rays sign Manny and Damon!!!!!

[Coach Deg]

Like I said I would like to see a cap with a floor so that teams can't pocket the luxury tax money and not spend. I know it won't happen and I really am ok with it.

Dom I think after dumping Soriano, Pena, and Burrell. We did have the money to pay Crawford.

Then you dump Garza and now we do not have the best rotation in the east. Price is a legit number 1, we do not have a number 2, and then Shields, Helickson, Nieman, or Davis are legit 3/4. But no bullpen at all.

I do have Rays/Red Sox tickets for sale! Let me prefrence this- I have a few friends from Boston that live in Tampa. Great sports fans, know what they are talking about, and are not idiots. Go to the Trop for a Rays Red Sox game get 20,000 idiots that couldn't find Boston on a map. We like to call it Bandwagon Nation!!!! And when they are out these same people are in Rays gear!

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Coach Deg

Dom I think after dumping Soriano, Pena, and Burrell. We did have the money to pay Crawford.

Then you dump Garza and now we do not have the best rotation in the east. Price is a legit number 1, we do not have a number 2, and then Shields, Helickson, Nieman, or Davis are legit 3/4. But no bullpen at all.

Even after losing all those guys, the money still doesn't add up to what Crawford got in Boston. Tying up those kind of funds just doesn't make sense for the Rays anyways.

And who has a better rotation in the AL East than TB? The Yankees sure don't, Toronto no, Baltimore definitely not, maybe Boston is the closest but i'd still give the edge to TB. Bullpen is another story, but even without Garza I still think they have one of the strongest staffs around.