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There's no doubt that the Tampa Bay Rays would like to be the Boston Red Sox one day. A perennial contender with a huge fan base and tons of history should be every team's goal, after all. They may be following the wrong example set down by the team that passed them in the standings this week. The Rays watched Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis get into a tiff in the dugout on Thursday and Matt Garza and Dioner Navarro decided to do an imitation on Sunday.

I wonder if Garza will be hearing from Troy Percival this week. From SI's recent cover story on the Rays.

The chatty Percival keeps players loose and humble. For instance, he promised to fine pitcher Matt Garza, who was obtained in a trade with the Twins, $500 every time he acted like a jerk on the mound, though Percival used a more colorful term.

Quite a week for the Rays. They started it in first place, had the first overall pick in the draft, got into a fight with the Red Sox en route to being swept and then closed it out by fighting with each other.