Best Birds For All Time (Series Preview: Tampa Bay Rays (89-54) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (80-63))
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It began as all expected it would: With a 47-year old grown-ass man screaming obscenities at another man for looking at him funny. Friday’s game between the surging Toronto Blue Jays and the eventual victors: The lowly Baltimore Orioles, was pretty uneventful save for a few things, the most mundane being the underperformance of American League Cy Young candidate Robbie Ray. The first instance of weirdness occurred in the bottom of the second inning, when a scuffling Ray, who had surrendered a triple to Kelvin Gutiérrez and a walk to Austin Wynns with no outs, supposedly grew suspicious that the Orioles were stealing signs off him and looked into Baltimore’s dugout a bit too long for Orioles manager Brandon Hyde’s liking. Hyde, a man hired for pretty much the explicit purpose of having a warm body fill the manager’s seat while the Orioles tank for the future, took to the top steps and began screaming at Ray turning a non-issue into an
Best Birds For All Time (Series Preview: Tampa Bay Rays (89-54) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (80-63))
Best Birds For All Time (Series Preview…
Best Birds For All Time (Series Preview: Tampa Bay Rays (89-54) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (80-63))
It began as all expected it would: With a 47-year old grown-ass man screaming obscenities at another man for looking at him funny. Friday’s game between the surging Toronto Blue Jays and the eventual victors: The lowly Baltimore Orioles, was pretty uneventful save for a few things, the most mundane being the underperformance of American League Cy Young candidate Robbie Ray. The first instance of weirdness occurred in the bottom of the second inning, when a scuffling Ray, who had surrendered a triple to Kelvin Gutiérrez and a walk to Austin Wynns with no outs, supposedly grew suspicious that the Orioles were stealing signs off him and looked into Baltimore’s dugout a bit too long for Orioles manager Brandon Hyde’s liking. Hyde, a man hired for pretty much the explicit purpose of having a warm body fill the manager’s seat while the Orioles tank for the future, took to the top steps and began screaming at Ray turning a non-issue into an