Go Rays. Now, for the 75-word filler:

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays announced their roster for the American League Championship Series and, as expected, they went with 11 pitchers and 14 position players, which translated to right-hander Edwin Jackson being added to the roster and outfielder Eric Hinske being removed.

Having enough arms in the event of a pitching catastrophe in a seven-game series became the overriding reason for going with 11 hurlers.

I hope this isn't a duplicate. My last thread never showed up.

Oh, c'mon people! It's Indians baseball, and this one's on TV!

Basketball is NOT more interesting than this.

As I write Byrd just hit B.J. Upton in the elbow and he's out of the game.

Also - the new Rays unis are ugly. And the logo. And the name change itself.

This had better be 300 characters. I don't want to have to copy over that text like usual.

I'm not going to let y'all get away with it this time! Game thread up ten minutes early, so take THAT!

Sizemore, CF
Dellucci, LF
Hafner, DH
Martinez, 1B
Peralta, SS
Blake, 3B
Gutierrez, RF
Cabrera, 2B
Shoppach, C

Sabathia is on the mound. The lineup looks like a regular season one for a Byrd start.