1. Melky Cabrera is sorry…. that he won’t be giving any more interviews until the first question is about something he did ON the field.
2. Colby Rasmus has a custom glove with the word ‘Razzle’ written on it. I don’t know if he has had ‘Dazzle’ tattooed anywhere on his body. I suspect that he does.
3. The only ribs I ever want to have to hear about from Brett Lawrie are the full rack of baby back that he just devoured. Eat ‘em, don’t tweak them.
Every time the validity of a radar gun is questioned, I imagine that this product exists, somewhere.
Everybody loves R.A. Dickey. I don’t blame them. Over this last part of the winter, Blue Jays fans have seen a lot of him, and of his crazy knuckleball. I’m excited to have him as the de facto ace of the starting staff. But one pitcher does not a rotation make.
Brandon Morrow and Josh Johnson are slotted into the 2nd and 4th positions in the rotation, but that appears to be more for the sake of putting the quick and quiet Mark Buerhle between then, rather than some kind of talent ranking on the part of their manager, John Gibbons. The question that comes to my mind is this: What do the Jays have in 2 starters who could presumably be 2A and 2B in most AL rotations, when they are healthy. Continue reading
I am, frankly, in awe of the twitter personality that is Jose Canseco. He exists on a different plane of twitterness than anyone else I know, and I don’t even follow him. If it isn’t really Jose running his own tweets, he has hired an amazingly strange indivdual to do it for him, and he should be paying him lots and lots of money. I say this with confidence, because I’m pretty sure that the twitter account is the only reason I ever think about Canseco, and I’m hardly alone in that regard.
What follows is a series of screen captures of tonight’s twitter conversation between a few hardcore Jays fans, and MLB.com beat writer Gregor Chisholm (@gregorMLB).
First, Gregor follows up on the injury to AAA first baseman David Cooper. He then fields responses about the effect of that injury on the depth of the Jays at first base.
Gruber’s Mullet chimes in and inquires about available free agents who might fill that hole. Jim Thome is a name that comes off the top of his head. Believe it or not, we just got a whole lot closer to Jose Canseco’s twitter radar, but we aren’t on it just yet.
And after a second suggestion of Thome, Gregor shoots that idea out of the water like a leaky tugboat. No Thome. Andy does us a solid here, because instead of letting the ‘old guy who might DH’ idea die, he gives us slightly more outlandish name: Manny Ramirez. We are dangerously close to Jose Canseco here. Can you feel it?
Did you see that, just above? Iain Sutherland just lit up the Canseco-Bat-Signal, and @ mentioned Jose right in a tweet about the whole situation.
Now, look what you’ve done boys. You’ve mocked Canseco, praised his twitter savvy, used his hashtag and expressed a deisre to be close to him. Now all you can do is wait.
52 minutes should do it.
And there you go! The payoff pitch is a ringing line single by Jose Canseco, as he gives us all a quick geography/politics lesson in one tweet. Toronto and Buffalo are really close!
With Jose on base, we’ll let Iain Sutherland belt one out of the park by making another joke at Jose’s expense. That’s a walkoff winner. Thank you everybody for coming out, drive safely on the way home.
So, it is almost time again.
Time for green grass, and wooden bats, and soft leather and sliding pits and rosin bags. Time see the sun shine down again, time for the bold, solid colours of thirty different teams to pop out in contrast to the green field. Cardinal Red, Baltimore Orange, Pirate Yellow.
They will line up with their coaches, trainers and manager. First, only pitchers and catchers. There will be soft toss, bullpen sessions, simulated games. Baseball starts slow. It eases the mind and the body into a new season, but an old routine. In the first week, there will be no hard slides, no elbows up, and no pitches ‘with a message’. When everybody arrives in camp, (and it seems more like summer camp than training camp in all the pictures), they feel like this could be the year.
