Tampa Bay Rays' New Ballpark: Aiding MLB Success in 2026

You know what a year it's been for the Rays. I mean, you know, they get their ballpark this week. You know, a brand new ballpark that enables them to be able to stay in the Tampa Bay area. So now they're going to build it across from Raymond James. It's going to make it a sports complex there. Now they're four and a half up and they're starting to spread out their lead over the New York Yankees. The Yankees can't run them down. Can they? The Rays right now have won 81 ballgames, George. I mean, this is supposed to be a team that would win 75 games and here they are at 81 with a shot to win 98 ballgames this year. I mean, can they make a play for the postseason and could they be in a World Series? First off, I have a truckload of family that lives in the Tampa area. I go down there a couple of times a year and they're big. Not all of them. They are transplanted New Yorkers, by the way. Some of them are Yankee fans, but they're big Rays fans there. So congratulations for getting that stadium. I've been to the Raymond James. I've been to the Yankee Spring Training across the street there as well. Boy, the parking there is going to be interesting to say the least, by the way. But congratulations to them. Are the Yankees going to run them down? No. The Yankees are way too inconsistent. The Rays are as well, by the way. Some of the Red Sox. There's no great team. You know, you could make a big yard for the top three, top four teams of all the National League here and then you get to the Rays, Yankees, Red Sox there. All Yankees are too inconsistent. I think the Yankees, because you want to get first place. I'm not going to tell you you don't. You want to avoid the three-game series, the wild card round here. But the most important thing for the Yankees, getting healthy and getting home field. All right, you're going to face the Red Sox, right? They're going to be four or five here. This game today between the Yankees and Red Sox, immensely important. It'll give the Yankees another game on them before four and a half they win. But more importantly, whoever wins this game, Dan, gets the tiebreaker. All right, so it's immensely important game today between the Yankees and Red Sox. It's starting now, by the way. So no, I don't think the Yankees are running them down. They want to get Judge back and not only get Judge back, but get him up to midseason form. You know, by the time the playoffs arrive here, getting him back in two weeks is great, but he's not hitting in two weeks. After that, it don't matter here. So they got to get him back, get him healthy here. Get Ryan Weathers back. We got Max Freak last night. Got to get healthy and take it from there.