Rays TV dropped the ball tonight because it took its eyes off the ball. The big story going into tonight's game was Josh Hamilton playing his first game at Tropicana Field. Obviously, when the Rays drafted him in 1999, we all thought Hamilton would be wearing a Rays uniform when he made his Trop debut. Then when he went through his well-chronicled drug problems, it seemed terribly unlikely he would ever play in the majors at all. But he survived, cleaned himself up and arrived in town Monday leading the majors in RBIs. What a story.

The interesting part about tonight was seeing what kind of reaction he was going to get from the Rays fans. In fact, Hamilton even asked in a Marc Topkin story Sunday if he was going to get booed. But as Hamilton was walking from the on-deck circle to the batter's box and his name was being announced, Rays TV was showing a slo-mo replay of Scott Kazmir's delivery while analyst Joe Magrane was talking about Kazmir.

That couldn't have waited? Instead of seeing shots of the crowd, hearing the crowd and seeing Hamilton's reaction, we saw a replay of Kazmir. For the record, Hamilton got a nice ovation. It would've been nice if we had seen it.