Rays' Newcomers Help Bring Team Effort In Win

The Rays have chatted all spring about their positive new attitude. There is a new and much improved level of talent. Let's not forget the new uniforms, either. They look pretty good. It has made for a new outlook that is unlike anything we've seen around these parts in, like, forever.

So, with so much spanking newness everywhere you looked, there was only one way to write the script on the first day of the new season for a team with so much newness it even needed a new name (sans Devil).

It wasn't just the 6-2 win against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday on a drab, rainy day at Camden Yards that had a fresh feel for a team looking to prove, as owner Stu Sternberg said before the game, "We're no laughingstock any longer." Not that anyone is taking wins for granted around here.


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