Okay. Rays.

(NY Times Photo)
The Red Sox took the American League Championship Series to seven games, but in the end, youth won out over experience. Riding on the arm of Matt Garza, who pitched into the 8th inning and only allowed 2 Boston hits, Tampa Bay held off Boston's furious comeback and successfully completed their transition from being last year's worst team to this year's World Series contender. While my gut instinct is to reject Florida expansion teams out of hand, and my hatred of Tampa Bay's ridiculous domed ballpark remains intact, this is a very good young team that's hard to truly dislike. As a result, I will pay them the respect they deserve, and quit calling them the Devil Rays. That being said, this is a pretty funny little piece on the Rays name change:

http://theserioustip.blogspot.com/2007/09/church-members-upset-over-devil-rays.html