Tampa Bay 1st place?

If I asked you at the begging of this years baseball season to name a couple of players from the Tampa Bay Rays, could you do it? For the most of us out there the answer is, "Um...well there is...um. Huh, I guess I can't think of anybody." But of course there are those few die hard Rays fans who can name the whole team in their sleep. So who are these first place Rays and where die they come from? They are led by first baseman Carlos Pena and rookie third baseman Evan Longoria. Another major contributor to the Rays success is second baseman Akinori Iwamura. You also have to give manager Joe Maddon some major props for turning the "bottom of the division every year" Rays into the "1st place ahead of the Red Soxs and Yankees" Rays. I can remember as a little kid my family was vacationing in Florida and we decided to go to a Rays (back then it was Devil Rays) game. I didn't even realize they were a major league team until my dad told me they were playing the New York Yankees. I remember walking in the stadium and seeing hundreds of empty seats everywhere. Now that all the Rays fans are coming out of the closet (not literally) I bet it's hard to find a seat anywhere when the Rays take the field. The big question is can they keep their momentum goin into the postseason and make a world series run? Well I guess only time will tell.