manny s former team, the tampa bay rays, continue to roll and sneak up on his other former team the red sox. last night the rays won again, beating the orioles 5-2. so tampa bay moves to within three games of the red sox in the wild card standings with 16 to play. the red sox and rays start a critical four-game series at fenway on thursday. the yankees won last night, red sox were off. so the yankees four games up on the sox in the division. coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe, despite having the crowd on his side, republican front-runner rick perry was on the defensive at last night s tea party debate answering again for his social security ponzi scheme line and for his record on jobs in the state of texas. we ll break it down with our morning joe crew. you hear nirvana playing. when we come back, we ll get ourselveses around the water cooler to watch an 18-year-old pop culture reference fall flat at that debate. way too early coming right back.