Robert Moates

@TBRaysCentral Dude would have been safe on 2nd but that is the 2nd bad idea junior has had

Just saw that Junior play, yikes man

@TBRaysCentral Bases loaded and no swings. Just looking no thanks on the rbi, the team win...not interested in swinging.....

Bases loaded no outs in the first inning after scoring a run and you get nothing else, that’s how you lose a game

So let me get this straight. You think kids will study Trump and Netanyahu the same way they study Hitler and Stalin? Trump, who lost an election and left. Netanyahu, who lost an election, sat in opposition, and won the next one. Those two compared to a man who banned every political party in Germany within six months, built industrialized death camps, and gassed six million Jews, and another man whose secret police killed 700,000 people in eighteen months for insufficient loyalty, who collectivized every farm in the Soviet Union and deported millions of families to freeze to death in Siberia, who ran a state where the concept of a free election simply did not exist. You’re comparing countries where courts block the government, where the press publishes vicious criticism every single day, where millions of citizens march in the streets against their own leaders and go home after to regimes where owning the wrong pamphlet got you sent to a camp, where the Gestapo’s orders were literally exempt from judicial review, where the NKVD planted informants in schools and churches and secretly marked ballots to find out who voted no so they could disappear them? You’re comparing free-market economies where you can start a business, own property, and sue your own government to a regime that forced Jewish families to sell their businesses at a fraction of their value then seized their bank accounts, their insurance payments, and their personal belongings, and another that labeled any farmer who owned his own land a class enemy and shot him? You’re comparing countries with constitutionally protected religious freedom to regimes that seized synagogues, dissolved Jewish communities, imprisoned rabbis, and in one case, built an entire industrial apparatus for the purpose of erasing a people from the earth? You are comparing a body count of zero politically motivated state killings to a combined body count of tens of millions people gassed in chambers, starved in engineered famines, worked to death in frozen camps, shot in ditches and dumped in mass graves? And you did all of this from a phone, on a free platform, in a free country, where the worst thing that will happen to you for calling your elected leader a dictator is that someone quote-tweets you? The people who actually lived under Hitler and Stalin did not get to post. They got a knock on the door at 3 AM. And then they were never heard from him again.. You should be embarrassed by your ignorance, but you’re not. Because you represent the most privileged class in the most privileged country in the history of the world and you’re so uneducated that you don’t even have the common sense to appreciate it.

@TBRaysCentral Defending against the run game might be the worst thing i have ever seen from the Rays and I was around for "the hit show" defense.....ugly

Their catcher just stole a base… this is a major concern

@Super70sSports Don't call me Shirley.

What’s the best one-liner in movie history?

@TBRaysCentral A buck says simpson catches junior on a would be triple down the right field line.

Rays lineup for the home opener

They Rays had one job this offseason: fix the bullpen. They did not. What a waste of a year. @TBRaysCentral @RaysRadio

@ECloskyWTSP Just get used to the shackles on Simpson. They are not going to take them off. They clearly don't believe in him.

I would love Chandler Simpson to be more aggressive stealing bags. Trust the speed. Can wait a bit too long in counts. Also, if anyone throws over twice — automatic go. Bottom of lineup doesn’t have much thump. Would rather him get CS than stagnant. Just my two cents.

@TBRaysCentral The trinity!

There are going to be some tough decisions in the OF going forward for Cash with the way DeLuca is playing. Nice to see Williamson starting against a righty. This is also the first time we’ve seen Yandy/Aranda/Junior bunched together so far this season.

A few days ago, I asked @JeremiahDJohns where the data from this chart came from. I dug around and found out. It turns out that, surprise surprise, the data was tortured to produce this result. Link in the replies

@TBRaysCentral They will end up having to connect yandy aranda and Cammy. I have moved past the 7 stages of not having Simpson in the leadoff. But need something to connect the Y.A.C. holy trinity.

Some rough ABs from Vilade so far today

@TBRaysCentral Leaving the blanks in the 3 and 5 hole is going to continue to cost this team production and wins.

Chandler Simpson had 289 ABs as a leadoff hitter last season, which was nearly 70% of the season for him. They lost Brandon Lowe which gives them less thump in the middle of the order. You’d think that would mean sliding Yandy to the 2-3 hole makes even more sense. Something must have changed with the Rays thought process in Simpson leading off, because it seems like they have no interest in doing it at the moment.

Today’s Rays lineup

@ECloskyWTSP @iAmNickWize They make more mistakes over the heart of the plate than any group I have ever watched. Some great pitchs then a couple BP hangers. Nibble nibble groove is terrible way to pitch

I understand your point. I think it's a fair complaint. Just want to shed light on what the "bad luck" means. Rays RPs last year were: 2nd in K/9 2nd in BB/9 4th in LOB% 8th in xERA 1st in xFIP 11th in WAR The problem? 26th HR/9 28th in HR/FB rate A lot of the underlying metrics for the Bullpen looked *really* good, but my goodness, they had a propensity to give up HR...especially at the worst times. The last two years have been particularly bad in that HR category for the bullpen and if it happens in 2026 again, there needs to be a deeper discussion here. Food for thought!

I read Marc Topkin's article yesterday, I think this line in the times from Rays officials angered me more than the game itself.

@TayVictoria8 It was until the bullpen showed up.

HAPPY OPENING DAY!!! #RaysUp

@ECloskyWTSP Or everyone else in the bullpen

That could not have gone any worse for Ian Seymour. Lit up by St. Louis.

@TBRaysCentral Simpson clutch against a lefty. Simpson yandy cam aranda. Have the lineup card printed so it doesn't change

It’s been 1 inning and I never want to see anyone other than Yandy or Aranda behind Junior again to start the season. And no, this isn’t an overreaction, I’ve been saying it all offseason.

@TBRaysCentral Vilade over Simpson and Cam hitting 4th. The computer that spit this out sucks.....

Rays Opening Day Lineup: 1. Yandy Díaz DH 2. Ryan Vilade LF 3. Jonathan Aranda 1B 4. Junior Caminero 3B 5. Ben Williamson 2B 6. Jonny DeLuca RF 7. Nick Fortes C 8. Cedric Mullins CF 9. Carson Williams SS

@RedWavePress Oh my goodness, machines and factories and plumbing will replace workers. what will people do? smash the machines!!!! What will the milkman and iceman do if we have refrigerator?

Bill Maher: “Bill Gates says in 10 years… AI will do most things humans do… In this world that they are talking about, that’s going to be great. What do people do, and how is money generated if nobody has to do anything?” Tristan Harris: “What happens when all of the GDP coming from the U.S. comes from AI and not human laborers? The incentive is I’m going to put all my money into data centers. Electricity prices go up for regular people. What I want people to get about this is not to scare you… This is headed to an anti-human future.” Bill Maher: “You should definitely be scaring people. Totally F*CKING scare people! It’s the scariest thing.”

@NoAlphaLimits Folks have predicted 247 of the past 1 recessions under the Trump administration....this time I am sure he is right