“The Rays have swept the Yankees for the first time in eight years” Andy Freed said on WDAE.  “The first homestand at Tropicana Field in two years and it ends in a sweep.” 

Baseball started the weekend with that new-season smell still in force. There were loads of home openers on Friday; circumstance and pomp reigned in Boston, Denver, Sacramento. It remains reasonable to say it’s early yet, if a team is scuffling.