Rays 5, Blue Jays 2: How About No More Brett Cecil Ever?

Unsurprising.

Four runs in three-and-a-third: not cool, Brett Cecil. With pretty much the same peripherals as last season, Cecil wraps up the season with a 4-11 record, rather than last year's 15-7. Was he lucky last year, or unlucky this season? Or is he, on the whole, kind of a butt and best disregarded entirely? Increasingly, that is my position. Next year, give me a rotation of Romero, Alvarez, Morrow, a revitalized and smoke-throwing Kyle Drabek and, what the heck, Yu Darvish. That is what I am after.


Oh hey, have I mentioned that Ben Zobrist hit an inside-the-park home run yesterday after Jose Bautista slammed into the wall and stayed down for the count? I hadn't? Forgive me; it was a remarkable thing that I should have told you about immediately.


Let me say in conclusion that now that the Blue Jays are finished with the Rays, I wish the Rays every success in unseating the slumping Red Sox, who are in the process of blowing a massive lead in the wild card race in truly spectacular fashion. Even last week, when the Blue Jays were beating up on the Angels, it occurred to me that I would actually totally prefer to see the Angels in the playoffs over the Sox, and yet because they chose to oppose the Blue Jays, I could not but wish them nightly thrashings. But now, an Angels-Rays one-game playoff with the Red Sox all sad at home seems to me the sweetest of conclusions to this fine 2011 season.


Anyway. On to Chicago for one last hurrah. Let us do this.


KS