First Place Rays Beat Last Place Yankees
By FRED GOODALL, AP S****ts Writer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)=97Music blared in the Tampa Bay clubhouse and
four large, flat-screen televisions mounted around a column in the
middle of the room were tuned to the same in-house channel displaying
the AL East standings.
The surprising Rays are on top, and the sputtering Yankees are on the
bottom. No one was gloating, though.
=93I want us to celebrate hard for 30 minutes postgame and then move on.
I want us to dwell on a loss for no more than 30 minutes,=94 manager Joe
Maddon said after Thursday=92s 5-2 victory dumped New York into the
cellar.
