Greetings from Dunedin

Today’s game between the Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves was an exciting one, and it began with the national anthem.  I don’t know if the Canadians in the crowd still have Olympic fever, but the past two games we have been treated to a rousing rendition of O Canada by the sing-along Canadian contingent in the crowd.

The …

Callum & Jerry Howarth

Since touching down in Tampa Bay yesterday it has been an interesting adventure, to say the least.  Lets begin with my hotel. Since I am just a lowly blogger, I am very po’. So I decided to go on the cheap, booking a – The Days Inn – on Hwy 19 just a few minutes away from …

Baseball is one of the few games where defense is as exciting if not more exciting than the offensive part of the game.  One of my favourite things to watch is a slick-fielding infielder range to his right or left to snag a groundball and come up throwing in one effortless motion and fire a bullet to first to nab …

AA and the Jays sorted out the SS mess this past week, inking John McDonald (2 years, $3 million) and Alex Gonzalez version 2.0 (one year at $2.75, club option for 2011 at $2.5).

Jays fans over on Twitter are shitting all over the signings. For my money (and AA’s) the Jays signings are value plays.

I wrote a little something …

The other day Omar Vizquel signed for virtually peanuts ($1.375 million). Some ‘journalists’ have claimed that Omar’s signing has set the market. Give me a break. Depending on how much collusion is in the cards the Jays could end up with Marco via arbitration, although I highly doubt it. Coming off of a career year Scutaro would be nuts to …