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MLB is giving players the option of wearing BLM patches on their jerseys? Knock yourselves out as I won't be watching....ever again

The baseball world has been turned upside down today when perennial American League favorite Tampa Bay Devil Rays shockingly decided to change their name to the Tampa Bay Rays!

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay prospect Delmon Young, who plays for the Triple-A Durham Bulls, was suspended for 50 games without pay by the International League on Tuesday for throwing a bat that hit a replacement umpire in the chest. IL president Randy Mobley said he believed the suspension was the longest in the league's 123-year history. Young was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 draft and was chosen the 2005 minor league player of the year by Baseball America. His brother is Detroit Tigers star Dmitri Young. "The Tampa Bay Devil Rays fully support the decision,"...

TORONTO (AP) -- A day after Boston pitcher Curt Schilling used the word ``idiot'' in criticizing Lou Piniella, the Tampa Bay manager held a team meeting and fired back. The Red Sox and Devil Rays tangled Sunday, with two-bench clearing scuffles and six ejections. The teams have had trouble in the past, too. ``The problem is when you're playing a team with a manager who somehow forgot how the game is played, there's problems,'' Schilling said on a Boston radio station Tuesday. ``This should have been over a little bit ago. Lou's trying to make his team be a bunch...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A sequence of inside pitches touched off a pair of scuffles between Tampa Bay and Boston during Sunday's game, resulting in ejections of four players and both managers. Boston's Manny Ramirez had to jump out of the way of a high and inside pitch from Lance Carter with one out in the seventh. Red Sox starter Bronson Arroyo had hit Aubrey Huff with a pitch one inning earlier. Red Sox manager Terry Francona came out of the dugout to talk with plate umpire Ted Barrett after Carter's pitch. After no action was taken by the...

Thu Jul 18, 9:52 PM ET By BEN WALKER and RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) - The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, said to be having cash-flow problems earlier this year, were more than two weeks late before making nearly $1 million in deferred payments to Steve Trachsel and Gerald Williams, several baseball officials told The Associated Press. AP Photo Trachsel, now pitching for the New York Mets, was due $428,571.43 on June 30 under a contract he signed with Tampa Bay two years ago. But the Devil Rays did not direct deposit that amount until Wednesday, according to four management...