No, the Rays haven’t won three world championships in the past decade, but the past 10 years of Tampa Bay baseball has some similarities to the last 10 in San Francisco. This weekend will be a matchup of a team that has already finished its rebuild and is taking off against a team that’s trying to ride out the last few years of untradeable pricey contracts before it can begin a total rebuild of its own.
The biggest difference between the Rays and Giants, though, is emotion. The Rays are ruthless. They operate without sentiment and the cruelty of their transactions is sort of the point.