The Rays are 29 games over .500 and drew a whopping 13,478 fans last night. Usually the front office will inflate that number so I'd say the attendance was probably around 11,750 or so at the Trop. There are a few threads on DraysBay trying to explain the pathetic turnout, but there is no excuse, not even being able to draw 15k is pretty unheard of. It seems pretty obvious to me that the reason no one comes is because they have no fan base; they have never been remotely competitive and therefore have no fans. And Florida isn't a pro ball state.

I'm trying again to share a Yahoo! link here. Some guy named schadenfreude hates us.

anybody else notice that the sun started a blog about the o's farm system?

For the sixth year in a row, I am once again asking for hardcore baseball fans to participate in the annual Scouting Report project, in which you evaluate the fielding characteristics of players on your team. If you have a few minutes, please drop by and evaluate your team.

From the Baltimore Sun.

Sherrill also was put on Waivers, but he didn't clear them and no trade was made, so he will be an Oriole through 2008.

The above four will be tradeable through August.

He belittles himself, states that he sucks repeatedly, thinks he's failing as a starter (because he is, of course). Makes absolutely no excuses or anything.

On the one hand, he's doing a horrible job as a starter. On the other hand, it's refreshing to see a major leaguer man up when making a mistake and stop blaming it on stupid shit like "just a mistake pitch."

He's still young, has a powerful arm... hope his confidence isn't shot enough where he can't remember how to pitch like the ~3.50ERA reliever he had been most of this year.

There's been much talk on here about how we should just write off our pitchers with a torn labrum because it's virtually impossible to recover from. Just saw this and thought I should pass it along. Maybe there's still hope...

Maybe we should look into trading Chris Waters for Jay Bruce and Adam Dunn...

Could the ridiculous blackout rules finally be recognized as out of date? Let's hope so.

tillman and erbe rate in BA's prospect hot sheet, beato listed as "not so hot."