The point of this blog is for me to vent or rant or cheer about the Toronto Blue Jays. If they win or lose I will have some sort of comment to post. Now you have to understand what kind of fan I am. I'm the kind of fan who goes crazy when someone gets a hit or goes cursing mad when someone fumbles the ball. Jays get a home run...I am jumping for joy...literally I am out of my seat. Jays walk the bases loaded...well you can see where that is going.
This is really all leading up to my thoughts for last night's opening game.
But lets start with how it all began....
Some of you may know that I had to work and would miss the first half of the game. I was quite down that I was missing this historic event but what can ya do? Anyways during short breaks at work I would check the game to see the score. At first I was quite displeased as all they were showing were some not so amazing highlights from the Yankees centre fielder Milky Cabrera. But the box score popped up to show that the game was tied at 1-1. "Dang I'm missing a pitching duel", is really the only thing I could think of.
Luckily work was dead so I was able to sneak out early. Called my buddy Mike (who I'm sure I will mention numerous times in the coming months) and headed on over to his place to watch the rest. He told me that the Jays were up by a run. Oh the excitement.
Once there we sat down to enjoy the rest of the game. Or tried to.....
Not much happened except aforementioned Cabrera tied the game with a solo blast. It's ok the game is just tied. The Jays can take the lead again. Fast forward to the bottom of the seventh. Halladay is still pitching great but runs into a little bit of a snag. Then black. Literally. The screen went black. There was still audio but no video. Whatever they will have this fixed in no time.
They didn't. Not right away at least.
The game went to commercials so they could fix the problem. And of course the ads seemed to take forever. Once the feed came back on though we saw what was not a very pleasant sight.
Bases loaded....one out. The game was on TSN with Rod Black announcing. He informed they were going to show us what we had just missed. This should be good. For anyone who knows Halladay as a pitcher you show know that he induces lots of ground balls. Which is good for this situation because they could easily get a double play. Well there was that chance but somehow the Jays managed to screw it up. Now they only showed us the highlight once but from what we saw was a ground ball which was fielded by David Eckstein. He was in perfect position to tag the runner and throw to first for a DP. But for some reason he doesn't tag the runner. Which lead to just the first out. Like I said they only showed us the replay once so it was hard to judge what had happened. I don't remember how it happened but the Jays then loaded up the bases. But wait whats this? Another ground ball! Yes the Jays will get out of this jam and move on into the eighth. But wait what??? Aaron Hill fumbles the ball and only gets the runner at second which lets in the go ahead run.
Yankees go on to win 3-2.
And you probably know the rest we were irate with Hill for screwing up. But when I look back now it was not his fault for them losing the game. How about only six hits when this team should have an explosive offence. The Jays could have lost 8-7 or even 12-11 and you can't really blame Hill for messing up. Looking back on the play now, he had to kind of back hand awkwardly so maybe it was difficult to field. Not to mention, but Vernon Wells went 0-4 with a strikeout and left four men stranded. How do these things happen?
This is really all leading up to my thoughts for last night's opening game.
But lets start with how it all began....
Some of you may know that I had to work and would miss the first half of the game. I was quite down that I was missing this historic event but what can ya do? Anyways during short breaks at work I would check the game to see the score. At first I was quite displeased as all they were showing were some not so amazing highlights from the Yankees centre fielder Milky Cabrera. But the box score popped up to show that the game was tied at 1-1. "Dang I'm missing a pitching duel", is really the only thing I could think of.
Luckily work was dead so I was able to sneak out early. Called my buddy Mike (who I'm sure I will mention numerous times in the coming months) and headed on over to his place to watch the rest. He told me that the Jays were up by a run. Oh the excitement.
Once there we sat down to enjoy the rest of the game. Or tried to.....
Not much happened except aforementioned Cabrera tied the game with a solo blast. It's ok the game is just tied. The Jays can take the lead again. Fast forward to the bottom of the seventh. Halladay is still pitching great but runs into a little bit of a snag. Then black. Literally. The screen went black. There was still audio but no video. Whatever they will have this fixed in no time.
They didn't. Not right away at least.
The game went to commercials so they could fix the problem. And of course the ads seemed to take forever. Once the feed came back on though we saw what was not a very pleasant sight.
Bases loaded....one out. The game was on TSN with Rod Black announcing. He informed they were going to show us what we had just missed. This should be good. For anyone who knows Halladay as a pitcher you show know that he induces lots of ground balls. Which is good for this situation because they could easily get a double play. Well there was that chance but somehow the Jays managed to screw it up. Now they only showed us the highlight once but from what we saw was a ground ball which was fielded by David Eckstein. He was in perfect position to tag the runner and throw to first for a DP. But for some reason he doesn't tag the runner. Which lead to just the first out. Like I said they only showed us the replay once so it was hard to judge what had happened. I don't remember how it happened but the Jays then loaded up the bases. But wait whats this? Another ground ball! Yes the Jays will get out of this jam and move on into the eighth. But wait what??? Aaron Hill fumbles the ball and only gets the runner at second which lets in the go ahead run.
Yankees go on to win 3-2.
And you probably know the rest we were irate with Hill for screwing up. But when I look back now it was not his fault for them losing the game. How about only six hits when this team should have an explosive offence. The Jays could have lost 8-7 or even 12-11 and you can't really blame Hill for messing up. Looking back on the play now, he had to kind of back hand awkwardly so maybe it was difficult to field. Not to mention, but Vernon Wells went 0-4 with a strikeout and left four men stranded. How do these things happen?
Not His Fault
I just feel bad how the Jays always blow a great start for Halladay. When he gets a loss it's rarely his fault.
Yes I know it's just game one. But this could be a very good example of how the rest of the season is going to turn out.
And one last thought...I hate Joba Chamberlain.
-Stanton X
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