ST. PETERSBURG — The Rays and A's open a three-game series Friday night in the vacuum of Tropicana Field.
Scalpers, stand down.
This just in: loser gets a lifetime supply of packing peanuts.
Hey, we have to jazz this series up, don't we?
Win or move.
Yes, the surprising, entertaining Rays are chasing the surprising, entertaining A's for the second AL wild-card spot, but there really aren't true playoff implications, as the A's lead the Rays by eight games with roughly two weeks remaining.
But it's the Rays and the A's, two franchises joined at the wallets, which barely open, and the turnstiles, which hardly turn.