Baseball’s Charitable Hosts
They say that home is where the heart is, but that just hasn’t been the case for a few teams across baseball this year.
1: Chicago Cubs (26-27, -$1,214) – The good news for the Cubs is that they have at least remotely regulated their losses at home in recent weeks. The bad news is that manager Lou Piniella has announced that he is retiring at the end of the season. The worse news is that there still isn’t a team out there that is willing to take any of these huge contracts off their hands at the trade deadline.
2: Baltimore Orioles (18-33, -$1,191) – The O’s might’ve had a nice little run on the road right before the All-Star Break, but that isn’t changing just how woeful this team has been on a regular basis at Camden Yards. Winning just 18 games in their first 51 at home makes us wonder how much more Orioles fans can really handle before they just stop coming to the ballpark. Ridiculously poor attendance this week when the Tampa Bay Rays came to town was probably indicative of just that.
3: Tampa Bay Rays (26-20, -$917) – The Rays are about set to open the doors at Tropicana Field for the first time in over two weeks, as they ended the first half of the season on the road and opened up on a lengthy roadie as well. It’ll probably feel like home sweet home in spite of the fact that they are one of the worst money teams in the bigs on their own turf.