ST. PETERSBURG - This column should come with a warning. It is about Rays baseball and it does not focus on how good things are going to be three or four years from now. We won't speculate about how bad things are going to be this season, which has been an annual rite of spring for more than a decade.
That's because - inhale, exhale - these guys are dangerously close to being competitive right now.
It's understandable if you need to take a moment.
But, honestly, as spring training approaches, the catwalk commandoes are generating a little buzz. They have more than just a new name (they dropped the Devil), new uniforms (they dropped the green), and plans for a new stadium (as long as we don't have to pay for it, take your best shot).
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