Despite his peers’ substantial reasoning why an everyday player’s consistent contribution is more valuable than a closer’s he still refutes over and over like he has his fingers stuck in his ears. “na na na boo boo” is what it seems he is lowering himself to.

What would be the point of a debate if everyone agreed on the same point? Which is why he is on the Mo-side, but damn come up with something actually relevant and refute with a point.

This vid also bothers me a little, because I end up siding with Skip Bayless, and I hate that.

Check out the video here: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6593038.

PS ESPN, you royally suck for having the ability to “share” the video, yet not actually making the embed code work.

That’s my first post in a couple years.

Why is Gregg Jefferies on my mind?.

Oh well. What kind of a post is this? Why am I asking questions?

Oh that’s right because The Mariners’ Pineda is throwing firebombs at the Jays and this is worse than last night… oh wait … pass ball. Yes 2 Ribby base knock for Patterson!

That is no reason to post old baseball pics that I just had lying around. But that is what happened.

Wait until the next pitch.

Throw in a Jose Bautista Silver Slugger presentation and a bunch of opening day photos and you get a slideshow set to this years Jays theme (well the post-spring training theme).

My lack of posting this year is so lacking. I better make up for it soon. Yes I am still a huge Yankees fan as well as a tremendous jays fan. Obviously. As great as I feel for the Yanks return to prominence, my heart goes out to the plucky Jays who remind me of The Dynamite Kid… for simply being harder workers who always have to look up to the bloated champions ahead of them and handicapped with the worst luck and injury prone. How’s that for a metaphor? I’m going to the Jays/Yanks game in a few hours .. for the first time in years I will be rooting the Jays over the pinstripes, as I did last night with Mariano (the undoubtedly best ever) Rivera vs Aaron Mr. MVP Hill. I always win in these situations .. and lose. :/

Enough about that, this is Jays fanaticism time! This week is gonna be crazy. Coming off of Caribana right into Blue Jays 90′s love week. This blog pretty much was berthed back in the late 80s early 90s because of this weekend. The agony of 85 (I went to the AL east clincher), 88 (damn Tigers!!!), 89 and 91 was worth it for those 2 glorious years in 92 and 93. Those were the years American baseball fans realized Toronto was somewhat relevant in their red white and blue lives.

I actually have that video in the SI WS VHS season recap. I have a bunch of other old stuff too. These pics I took years ago back at my folks place, my lil baseball basement haven. Note the Rickey Henderson love No band wagoner here! Yes, i have all those and still have those newspaper clippings … and way more.

Oh yeah a wall devoted to Yanks and Jays hats over the years … told ya.

With that said OK OK Blue Jays Blue Jays let’s play ball! Let’s go Mr. Mxyzptlk go get em dude.

To make up for my absence and now detoured Father’s Day post (TBA)….

1996 Blue Jays singinglip synching This Land is Our Land (Canadian version).

RT @ The Tao

** side note .. anyone have video of the close call double play break up where Dexter Fowler of the Rockies almost got beaned in the 3rd eye?

However, the Jays staff which has continually overcome the odds by simply being since well ever are once again mired in the delicate ballet of who in the blue jay hell else is gonna go down next? Our bullpen is down to anyone in the Jays organization who can pitch.

So why not dip into past? Alums work in wrestling.

No messing around this time. First we fix that pesky Ace spot that Roy has temporarily vacated.

No.

Not that Ace.

THE ACE.

And if we are gonna dip into that old late 80s early 90s magic bag. Then we go back into time and resurrect The Terminator.

Ummm. No.

Yeah now that’s the ticket.

If I never post again, at least I got to post the arrogantly ugly yet so exquisitely perfect combination of THAT Tom Henke chesire grin with the 88 Tops All-Star mis-design.

I mean I know ol number 50 was best known for fireballing this a way…

And this is the result I came to expect night after night…

But damn. Look at that awesome train wreck of design and photography.

swoon. Tom Henke less than 3. Until I see you on the LOE.

Mr. Clutch – Alex Rios? Oh hell yeah. 2 outs? RBI possibility? No problemo count him as batted in. What a crazy lil baseball weekend. Rios finished off a 4 game sweep of the White Sox in prep for the showdown in beantown. Not to mention THREE Yankee Walk-offs? Crazy.

Side note: I actually wrote that all in a draft and saved it … but not finished. Haha. I should check first.

Moving on .. quickly. A-Rod’s reaction when he hit his walk-off in HIS House .. was perfect. I knew it would happen. It’s a homer park and houses the games best, he’s supposed to do that. Plus, he actually wants to now. Clutch A-Rod and A-Rios. Love it … in my confused AL East mind.

Saturday was Jr. Jays day and my lil cousins loved it. I taught them a valuable thing. The art of the rally cap.

You are welcome Mr. Lind.

Actually, thanks Adam and the rest because the screams of IT worked!!! and super excited anticipation of when they can do it again, was well pretty damned cool.

Sad or Happycheesy faces are always gold.

Eh to be Stairsy. Although Ricky’s grin may be even bigger.

Saturday was Robert “looks like AJ with no goatee” Ray’s first win. I think I even saw AJ’s first win as a Jay too. Means absolutely nothing except it’s a mild horrible segue into posting the AJ sad face walk-away pic because it makes me laugh.

AJ Jr. did do something different I guess.

Win. lolol111!!. Oh snap. burnnn.

DJF has one of the funniest takes on the matchup that went down. It’s a preview but the pics and the JP knock at the end is killer. Truthfully I didn’t want AJ to go … to the Yankees. But not because he was such a great Jay, but because I’m still a Yankees fan. I saw AJ’s greatest year in 2008 and I cheered like a beast for him unlike every Jays fan I knew. But I knew that was it. When he signed I just said he’s now a Yankee retread and I thought this was the year they were gonna be smart investors. New first name, same re$ult. Still Teacher vs Student was pretty damn cool.

43k rocking the Dome? I haven’t heard that since … opening day and then before that Canada vs USA at the WBC.. but previously … well obviously it’s been silent since 93. I’ve been to MANY big time games and I had the chance to go to this but passed.

Passed? yes … you see it was opening day of my 2nd softball league and well you know … I’d rather play. I still got home to see AJ exit, that was a pretty cool moment. Electricity in MAY!

Look what the Jays HAD to do to get noticed on MLB.com. TWIB was forced to show another Jays rookie Scott Richmond who was the AL Rookie of the Month. Richmond vs Greinke vs Romero vs Bannister is gonna be fun this year. Battle of the nobody’s that everybody should know. Scottie incidentally takes his 4-1 record into battle tomorrow night… just in case Halladay didn’t warm you up.

I was once blessed with watching Jim Clancy, Dave Stieb, Jimmy Key, Juan Guzman, David Wells and even a Cy Young winner Pat Hentgen start games here. Then Roger freakin Clemens had 2 of his greatest years in front of my face. Now I suggest any Jays fan go watch Roy start live, and be grateful you get to watch him pitch every 5th day. He’ll be the 2nd Jays player (after Robbie Alomar next year) in the HOF. He IS that mega-superstar we think we need to sign. Scott “rock and” Rolen and Aaron MVP Hill round out the 3 stars.

Roy – Complete game, 1 run masterpiece, AJ – 8th inning 5 run exit.

“It does seem like old times,” manager Cito Gaston said with a smile.

I hope AJ recovers (I said I’m still a Yanks fan). He’s a cool guy and seriously baseball sucks when the Yankees suck. That being said I’m gonna boo my head off when I see em live vs the Jays. As much as Jays fans would like to revel in the hysteria, we can boast only a bit. Sure EVERY SINGLE respected baseball authority has said wait until they play the rest of the AL East. Well … here we go. The Jays are gonna win this series maybe even sweep, but this ISN’T the test. The Rays aren’t the test. The test is NEXT Tuesday. Going into beantown vs the Bosox and beating them in their beloved home. THEN they will actually be worthy of all this hoopla we think the Jays are entitled to. Fenway is the new old Yankee stadium. That’s where you measure your team. I can’t wait.

Yeah I did say earlier I passed on the game to play. It was actually my 2nd opening day. I joined 2 leagues this year. Unfortunately for you and my team mates you will be forced to peruse my old man musings in search of my Bundy moment. It’s co-ed softball but damn I’m not 18 anymore. I hold my own still.

Last year I joined a co-workers league of fellow late 20s and 30 somethings and we came in 2nd. This was pretty much after not playing any semi-organized thing for like 10 years.

Generation X. This years uni’s are Brown with Carolina blue trim. Odd, but growing on me. Monday was opening day. We won 8-6. I went 2 for 3 with 2 rbi’s. The out was a sac fly. Holla. hahaha. Today was the new league. I joined my baby cousin’s league. I say baby and he’s really like 21 or 22. Babies to me. Yes I’m playing with kids like 10 years younger than me in this one. We won, 17-7. I went 2-3 I have no idea how many rbi’s and my defense was not shall we say … rickety first day like. Unlike ummm .. well last year. Had fun. The best part was standing on 2nd and watching my lil cousin try to hit me home. He did. Twice. Let’s see how much this body can take. I get to play 2 times a week, who needs a gym?