Callum on February 8th, 2010

Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they’re turned around.
Who’d have thought they’d lead ya (Who’d have thought they’d lead ya)
Here where we need ya (Here where we need ya)
Yeah we tease [...]

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In honour of the long overdue of Buck Martinez to the broadcast booth, I’d like to bring back the memory of the most spectacular double play ever made in major league baseball history. It was July 9, 1985 in vs. Seattle at the Kingdome.
The play by play reads like this:
MARINERS 3RD: Bradley singled; Davis flied [...]

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Callum on November 5th, 2008

The Best Hair In Blue Jays History

We at Mop Up Duty are pretty obsessed with ballplayer’s hair, mostly because either we are losing it ourselves or we just have a bad haircut in general (or both).  When I think of the Jays of my youth, I think of glorious mullets and Tom-Selleck-like mustaches.  To celebrate [...]

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Callum on October 24th, 2006

This article is intended to be a general discussion of the broadcasters that the Toronto Blue Jays have employed both in radio and television since their inception in 1977. Being the young man that I am, there are a few that I can’t remember and am not familiar with so please bear with me. I [...]

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