Youngin' On His Grind

This is no place to meet women, boys. You'll only have each other.

In an attempt to find pictures of this game, I ran across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about fan demographics according to Facebook. The A's are younger and more single than their counterparts across the bay in San Francisco. The A's are actually comparable to Jays' fans in that "The Athletics and the (Toronto) Blue Jays are both younger and more single than we would expect for baseball fans," a report said. "These teams also stand out in another way: Their fan bases are predominantly male compared to the other teams."

Detroit, Cincinnati and St. Louis fans are all old and married. "The old cliche that males like sports more than females is true: Less than 50 percent of any team's fans are female, but the Blue Jays are the most extreme with a nearly 3-to-1 ratio."

Did you know that Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game last year? Travis Snider didn't remember, and played rough with a pitch, resulting with a 3-run shot in the 4th.

Yunel Escobar, of last night's fame, had three hits before sliding hard into Andy LaRoche's knee and spending next half inning shimmying, fanning himself and talking in tongues before being replaced by John McDonald in the 7th. Escobar will be reevaluated in the morning.

I was happy to see that Jesse Litsch still has the ability to be pink, round and efficient. Pink, round, efficient and bearded. 6 hits, 3 runs, 6 1/3 innings, 7 ks and two BBs is a lovely line for a number 5. Alexander Ovechkin would totally have that exact same line had he started tonight.