Apr 01
Opening day for Blue Jays baseball is upon us. I’ve been waiting six months for this. Nothing that happened last season matters and no one knows what will happen this season. A decent guess puts the Jays in third or fourth place in their division but no decent guess would’ve predicted that last year’s Giants …
Jan 24
As I child, I’d watch Blue Jays games with Dad. The bat cracked, the ball sent on a line into a gap for a sure double. We’d hold our breath. Devon White loped towards it. Then, somehow, he’s there. Waiting. Never seemed to speed up. Always seemed to jog. But his glove always found the …
Jan 15
The most recent round of inductions to the Hall of Fame has caused some kerfuffle about performance enhancing drugs. What, if any, effect should using these drugs have on the HOF ambitions of the players? It makes me long for the good old days. The days when baseball was no pink tea and mollycoddles but …
Nov 04
“I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it’s more than there’ll be a tomorrow, it’s that I want there to be a tomorrow. That’s the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.”
Oct 13
An amazing and hilarious animated short about Doc Ellis and the no hitter he pitched while on LSD. Narrated by the man himself. Via SHOEMERDE
Oct 08
A lot of Toronto fans have a lot of mixed feelings about Roy Halladay. Some are rooting for him, some are indifferent, some bitter and some still find it tough to look at him in another uniform. A lot of people have all these feelings at the same time. Two things seem to be agreed …
Oct 05
Even if you don’t like baseball, this is an amazing video and well worth watching. It explains how Mariano Rivera has become the most dominant closer in the history of baseball on the strength of just one pitch. It’s also a glimpse into just what is happening at the plate and into the very nature …
Aug 27
pic nicked from here “The D.R. is baseball’s puppy mill. The buscones develop and sometimes feed and house these teenage players, with the intent of selling them to the highest bidder, a major league team willing to fork over thousands, if not millions, of dollars to secure a prospect. As a reward for their work, …
