Lord Palmerston!
Montgomery Burns: "Now I want to assure those whose names are not on the list that I'm very disappointed in you. Something was lacking. Let's call it...heart."
Darryl Strawberry: "No hustle either, Skip."
Montgomery Burns: "That's right, Darryl!"
Does any of that seem familiar to anyone? There are two things that should be very familiar to Jays fans the last two seasons.
My favourites in Homer at the Bat, besides the obvious star Strawberry, are Mike Scioscia due to cuteness and Steve Sax because he plays in the Steve Sax Trio and because the cops call him "Saxy Boy." Big ups to @archizuber for giving me the heads up that it was on last night.
Everyone was cool except Canseco, who wanted to be as heroic as possible and thought the animated character looked nothing like him. Was it the yellow skin, Jose? He was originally supposed to wake up next to Edna Krabappel, but Canseco's wife objected. And I think that's all you need to know about their marriage. Ken Griffey Jr. had trouble with the line, "It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited!", got frustrated and his dad tried to coach him.
What? There was a Jays game?
I took the dog for a walk at about 8 pm and when I got back, the Jays had gone insane and it was 5-0. I'm not quite sure when this happened, because it used to seem like Arlington was the place the Jays went to die, but for the last two seasons, the bats come alive in this place. It probably had something to do with that fact that the Rangers used to own Roy Halladay and then rubbed salt in that wound by breaking his leg that one time.
Adam Lind clearly likes the theme from The Natural, because he has hit 9 homers in his last 12 games here. He hit two last night and added an RBI single for variety.
“The second one was his first pitch, just swung,” Lind said. “The first one I hit it on the sweet spot.”
Ah, the sweet spot. Is there anything sweeter than the sweet spot? It is especially encouraging because if no one hits besides Bautista, Bautista gets nothing to hit.
Jesse Litsch looked decent against everyone who isn't a lefty, but I guess that will come around.
People have been bitching a bit about Farrell on Twitter. Farrell is new. New manager, new in the city, new to the team. That's why he should be held to a different standard than Gaston. but then again, I never had much beef with Cito. Mostly because I find whinging about the manager to be particularly SOSHian. Now most sports fans have certain SOSH qualities like arrogance, a lack of perspective and the tendency to spout doomsday prophecies. So can we maybe wait a bit before extensively freaking out about Farrell?
Darryl Strawberry: "No hustle either, Skip."
Montgomery Burns: "That's right, Darryl!"
Does any of that seem familiar to anyone? There are two things that should be very familiar to Jays fans the last two seasons.
My favourites in Homer at the Bat, besides the obvious star Strawberry, are Mike Scioscia due to cuteness and Steve Sax because he plays in the Steve Sax Trio and because the cops call him "Saxy Boy." Big ups to @archizuber for giving me the heads up that it was on last night.
Everyone was cool except Canseco, who wanted to be as heroic as possible and thought the animated character looked nothing like him. Was it the yellow skin, Jose? He was originally supposed to wake up next to Edna Krabappel, but Canseco's wife objected. And I think that's all you need to know about their marriage. Ken Griffey Jr. had trouble with the line, "It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited!", got frustrated and his dad tried to coach him.
What? There was a Jays game?
I took the dog for a walk at about 8 pm and when I got back, the Jays had gone insane and it was 5-0. I'm not quite sure when this happened, because it used to seem like Arlington was the place the Jays went to die, but for the last two seasons, the bats come alive in this place. It probably had something to do with that fact that the Rangers used to own Roy Halladay and then rubbed salt in that wound by breaking his leg that one time.
Adam Lind clearly likes the theme from The Natural, because he has hit 9 homers in his last 12 games here. He hit two last night and added an RBI single for variety.
“The second one was his first pitch, just swung,” Lind said. “The first one I hit it on the sweet spot.”
Ah, the sweet spot. Is there anything sweeter than the sweet spot? It is especially encouraging because if no one hits besides Bautista, Bautista gets nothing to hit.
Jesse Litsch looked decent against everyone who isn't a lefty, but I guess that will come around.
People have been bitching a bit about Farrell on Twitter. Farrell is new. New manager, new in the city, new to the team. That's why he should be held to a different standard than Gaston. but then again, I never had much beef with Cito. Mostly because I find whinging about the manager to be particularly SOSHian. Now most sports fans have certain SOSH qualities like arrogance, a lack of perspective and the tendency to spout doomsday prophecies. So can we maybe wait a bit before extensively freaking out about Farrell?