The Rays Tank: Accept the Best, Expect the Worst

One of my favorite songwriters, Blake Schwarzenbach, coined the lyric accept the best, expect the worst back in the 90’s. And while Blake was from Berkley — by way of Los Angeles — and though he wrote the lyric before the Devil Rays were even a team, I’m pretty sure he, in all of his prophetic wisdom, foresaw a day like Sunday, when not one or two, but three players* were nipped by the injury bug. For the three players in question — Steven Souza Jr., James Loney, and Asdrubal Cabrera — the severity of their injuries are unknown at the time of writing.

Souza Jr. left Sunday’s game in the third inning after a first inning collision with Athletics’ catcher Stephen Vogt at the plate. Although…