Toronto Blue Jays
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Pat Hentgen announced his retirement earlier today. He retires 131-112 with a 4.32 ERA in 344 career games, 306 career starts, with Toronto, St. Louis and Baltimore. He's fourth in wins (107) starts (238), inning pitched (1,636), strikeouts (1,028) and shutouts (nine) on the Blue Jays' all-time
Inspired by Carlos Delgado's protest of what he disagrees with, please consider this entry my official protest regarding the Blue Jays logo. When it was first unveiled on September 2, 2003, I wrote this entry admitting I actually liked it. You can see the new logo next to Carlos' Stand
During the seventh inning stretch in Major League Baseball, "God Bless America" is played. This practice began following 9/11 and has continued in some ball parks. Toronto has stopped playing it but you'll still hear it at Yankee Stadium where the Blue Jays play tonight. During the playing of
Here in the capital of the world (Toronto, in case you didn't know), all the sports talk has been about the "imminent" trade of our two biggest stars. If you excuse Mats, Ed and the gang on skates, Toronto's biggest sports stars are Carlos Delgado and Vince Carter. Already this
My favourite Murray Eldon announcements (to be read in your best Murray Eldon) #7, Damaso Garcia#1, Tony Fernandez#12, Roberto Alomar#26, Willie Upshaw#29, Jesse Barfield
Back in September, I reminisced about listening to Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth call Blue Jays games. In October, I revisted the subject when remembering Joe's homer. Nobody does it better than Tom Cheek. In fact, nobody has done it as often either. Until his father's death on June 3rd,
Roger Clemens is an arrogant SOB but he's the best damn pitcher I've ever seen. In 1997 and 1998 Toronto Blue Jays fans like myself saw first hand how good he really is. All he did was go out and lead the American League in wins, strike outs and ERA
The NHL season must be coming to a close because this is my second baseball entry of the day. ESPN has ranked the stadiums in Major League Baseball. SkyDome finished 23rd out of 30. I'm actually surprised we fared as well as we did. It's hard to believe there are
While the Maple Leafs dominate the sporting news in Toronto, the Toronto Blue Jays have quietly opened the season 3-9, their worst start in history, and 0-6 at home. They're just horrible so far, neither hitting nor pitching well at all. I'm blaming the uniforms. The new logo isn't so
The Toronto Blue Jays' 2004 season opens on Monday night against the Detroit Tigers. Roy Halladay will be on the mound for the Jays and it's a 1:05 pm start so I'll be following the game online while I work. I'd prefer to listen to Tom Cheek and Jerry
With spring training well underway, I was thinking about baseball the other day. Throughout the 1980s, I was as big a Blue Jays fan as I was a Maple Leafs fan. In fact, because we had such a competitive baseball team starting in 1983 while our hockey team was always
It's been a while since I delved into the vault. Today I took a peek and found an old Blue Jays schedule from the 1988 season. A drawing of 1987 American League MVP George Bell is on the cover and that must be why I kept it. Here it is.
Back in December, when the Boston Red Sox signed Curt Schilling and looked to be trading for Alex Rodriguez, I wrote a piece about how being a Blue Jays fan was hell. It's the off season, but we're already third in the AL East and out of the playoffs in
My Favourite Toronto Blue Jay Position Players of All-Time George BellRoberto AlomarCarlos DelgadoTony FernandezJoe Carter
Paul Molitor has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, being picked on 431 of 506 ballots (85.2 per cent) cast by reporters who have been members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America for 10 or more years. Molitor is beloved by Blue Jays fans. He
Being a Blue Jays fan is unfair. The Yankees and Red Sox have been trying to one-up each other since the baseball season ended. Boston signed Curt Schilling. The Yankees responded by signing Gary Sheffield (all but official), middle relievers Paul Quantrill and Tom Gordon and traded for Javier Vasquez.
Roy Halladay has just won the American League Cy Young Award. As if there was any doubt, Halladay received 26 first-place votes and two seconds for 136 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He finished 22-7 with a 3.25 ERA this year, winning 15 consecutive
My mother recently asked me why it takes so much for my brothers and I to get excited about something. I paused to ponder the question and realized that men in their 20s and early 30s rarely appear particularly jovial. Immediately I thought of Bart and Lisa's response to a
Another Blue Jay season has come to an end with eerily similar results. The American League East, a division of five teams, has finished in the exact same order for six consecutive seasons. Once again, our Jays finished in 3rd, but this year there is much reason for optimism. The
A common pastime for Jay fans is to turn down the volume on the TV and listen to the play by play of Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth. Tom and Jerry have been calling Blue Jay games for as long as I've been a fan, and they've always been far
Carlos Delgado hit four straight home runs vs the Tampa Bay Devil Rays last night at SkyDome. He's the first Blue Jay to do so and only the 15th player in the history of Major League baseball to accomplish the feat. Furthermore, he's only the sixth player ever to homer
The Toronto Blue Jays just unveiled their new logo. In a previous blog entry I hoped the new logo would be a return to our standard logo from the glory days. This new logo certainly isn't that. It seems they've completely done away with incorporating the word "Blue" into the
I just posted four new pictures of James in Pictures. All were taken August 9th except for the picture of James in my Blue Jays cap which was taken some time after that. James loves my Jay cap. Speaking of my Jay cap, I love it too because it's the
This is a brief entry to update my previous blog entry on the '93 Jays (read it here). Better yet, I'll just paste the email I got from my brother Steve earlier today. I am a lazy SOB. You might have to update your Blog entry from May 4th, 2003.
Where are our '93 Jays now? Only the following few remain in the majors... Roberto Alomar - Starting 2nd Baseman for the New York Mets Woody Williams - Starting pitcher for St. Louis Mike Timlin - Relief pitcher for Boston Al Leiter - Starting pitcher for the New York Mets
