Rays Radio

[Frank Ferreri]

Have to give kudos to Andy Freed and Dave Wills with Rays radio play by play. They do a good job telling it as it is. However, the most difficult job is the one that Neil Solance (sp)? has after the games. Presently, this is a bad baseball team playing bad baseball and sadly Neil has to put some sort of positive spin on comments made by callers who see lousy baseball. Of course, we understand that he is paid by the team. Tonight he really was backed into a corner by a caller who questioned a .150 hitter batting clean up.

 

[Frank Ferreri]

Makes me long for the days of Steve Duemig ripping the Lightning after a really bad game! Now THAT was a post game show!

 

[Tampa Sports Fan]

Solonz is great.

 

[badjef]

Have to give kudos to Andy Freed and Dave Wills with Rays radio play by play. They do a good job telling it as it is. However, the most difficult job is the one that Neil Solance (sp)? has after the games. Presently, this is a bad baseball team playing bad baseball and sadly Neil has to put some sort of positive spin on comments made by callers who see lousy baseball. Of course, we understand that he is paid by the team. Tonight he really was backed into a corner by a caller who questioned a .150 hitter batting clean up.

I heard the caller...

The caller was a complainer. The caller was referring to Hideki Matsui. He is a draw from his years with the Yankees (he won Game 6 in the 2010 World Series) and still swings a mean bat. Neil eventually "let him go". Personally, he had much more patience than I would have had with him.

The Rays have 8 key injuries (down from 10). They haven't been at full strength all season. I am impressed with how well they have been doing during this stretch. Remember, there is no team doing poorly in the toughest Division in Baseball. All 5 teams are over .500, that doesn't happen very often this deep in the season.

"Go Rays" is more than a slogan to me.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!