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That two day ass kicking was not as enjoyable as a Red Sox or Yankee or Oriole or just about about any other team ass kicking because the Giants are so damn adorable. It’s like a team of panda bears playing baseball.
I don't know why they were so bad. It was kind of shocking, not only to see the 2012 World Series Champions play like they were asleep but because it felt that finally, after six weeks of disappointed hopes, everything was coming up Blue Jay. And despite the panda bearishness of the Giants, the Jays will take those wins and like them.
Manager and lead panda bear Bruce Bochy said that he tried take his pitching staff out for dinner, but they were in too bad a mood to go after that first game. Judging by the way Chad Gaudin drilled Lawrie between the shoulders when Lawrie called time late on the previous pitch, Giants’ mood didn't improve much. There was a lot of Twitter chatter that the turf has been giving the Giants fits. But I saw misread flyballs and some nonchalance rather than turf issue.
His sister, Danielle demonstrated that Brett isn't the only full dimed member of the family.
So the Jays, backed by some solid pitching and an offensive resurgence, have a four game winning streak going. So what does it mean?
From the Toronto Sun: “It was 24 years ago Wednesday that Jimy Williams was fired and Cito Gaston took over an under-performing 12-24 team that was in last place. On the final weekend of the 1989 season, Toronto finally overtook the Orioles to win the AL East.”
It’s a shame the season ended in April.
Links from around:
Getting Blanked provides links to the awesome David Ortiz's awesome charitable initiative to help the Boston Marathon victims. Choose the “This is our f@#%ing city” version of the bat if you want to be extra awesome. Awesome.
Also at Getting Blanked, Drew Fairservice and his press pass continue the "My Approach" series and talks to the one and only Tim "Big Time Timmy Jim" Lincecum.
The McCovey Chronicles covers the Jays/Giants two game set from San Francisco's point of view, and tells the sad, strange tale of Ryan Vogelsong.
It also features the following sentence: "And then the Giants scored one run against Ramon Ortiz, who works for a temp agency and gets paid in corn."
Shi Davidi talks to BB machine Adam Lind: "I wasn't being a smart hitter, I was being stubborn and for lack of a better word, stupid.”
Sportsnet wrote a bit on old minor league scouting reports of current Jays. R.A. Dickey had a thick rear, a strong face and a fastball with "boring action."
Darren Oliver was skinny, baby faced but was expected to get bigger. "Showed poise & confidence along w/ fringe ave stuff early in game." Change that to "late in game", and that's pretty much Black Magic.
I don't know what the obsession scouts have with the pitcher's face, but faces are mentioned several times.
Vernon Wells, zombie offensive threat, hit his tenth homer of the season last night and did this:
It also features the following sentence: "And then the Giants scored one run against Ramon Ortiz, who works for a temp agency and gets paid in corn."
Shi Davidi talks to BB machine Adam Lind: "I wasn't being a smart hitter, I was being stubborn and for lack of a better word, stupid.”
Sportsnet wrote a bit on old minor league scouting reports of current Jays. R.A. Dickey had a thick rear, a strong face and a fastball with "boring action."
Darren Oliver was skinny, baby faced but was expected to get bigger. "Showed poise & confidence along w/ fringe ave stuff early in game." Change that to "late in game", and that's pretty much Black Magic.
I don't know what the obsession scouts have with the pitcher's face, but faces are mentioned several times.
Vernon Wells, zombie offensive threat, hit his tenth homer of the season last night and did this:










































