If Keith Hernandez has a chance to mock something for being \u201cpolitically correct,\u201d he\u2019s going to take it, with the Tampa Bay Rays being next in line.<\/p>\n
The New York Mets were in Florida for a series against the Rays this week. And when SNY took a camera shot of the stingray tank at Tropicana Field, analyst Ron Darling noted the franchise began as the \u201cTampa Bay Devil Rays.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ron Darling: \u201cThey began as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays\u201d<\/p>\n
Gary Cohen: \u201cToo much satanic connotation\u201d<\/p>\n
Keith Hernandez: \u201cVery woke\u201d pic.twitter.com\/awYrAjUxsV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThat was the actual name of a fish, you know,\u201d Gary Cohen interjected. \u201cBut too much satanic connotation, too much for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n As Darlin and Cohen discussed the name \u201cDevil Rays,\u201d you could just tell Keith Hernandez was waiting for his chance to get a line in<\/a> there before finally adding, \u201cVery woke.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIs that woke?\u201d Darling asked with a chuckle.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been nine years since Dwyane Wade made the term \u201cstay woke\u201d mainstream, and six years since the right hijacked what was a positive means of social awareness and used it as a way of mocking political correctness. But the Tampa Bay Devil Rays dropped \u201cdevil\u201d from their name nearly two decades ago, long before Hernandez or anyone on the right knew about \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n