September 2011
1 post
2 tags
Here's me about Brett Lawrie...
You know how you have a dog, right? And your dog is great. He’s not perfect. He’s got chronically itchy skin and farts a lot and steals things off the counters and humps dogs at the park and doesn’t fetch. Sometimes you have to yell at him to get him to listen.
But he’s got so many lovely qualities that, over time, none of those things matter. You have those amazing...
August 2011
3 posts
Not backpedaling, but...
Okay, fine. He’s good at baseball. But I still hate him.
Wait.
Is he cute?
*googling… *
NOPE.
#IBelieveinSnidey
Just sayin'
Jays are 0-1 at home with Lawrie in the line-up.
Bye bye (again), Lunchbox
Just when my head is explody from loving the Jays, they pull a stunt like this and send Snidey back to Vegas.
I dunno what’s so great about this Lawrie kid but he’s on a short leash in my world. He seems sorta lame on Twitter, too. #capitaloffense
Watching Project Runway right now, so I’ll just say this: Make it work, Anthopoulos!
July 2011
1 post
inimitable appurtenances: thesillylittlegirl: Q&A:... →
captainlatte:
thesillylittlegirl:
Q&A: Travis Snider
Cats or dogs?
Dogs.
Rock or hip-hop?
Hip-hop.
Beaches or museums?
Beaches.
MTV or PBS?
PBS.
Salt or sugar?
Sugar.
Boxers or briefs?
Boxer briefs.
The delightful @lunchboxhero45 ponders how to improve fan seating at Skydome …
Pet the Snidey….
June 2011
3 posts
Baseball phrases I like:
I like words. I’m a word nerd even more than a sports nerd, so sometimes sports words get all up in my word nerd kitchen and I feel at peace with my little universe.
Two I heard today related to beisbol:
I love when they say a pitcher was “dealing.” I like it a lot less when he’s dealing against MY team (screw you, Tim Hudson!) but still, I love that term. It’s so...
NOW it's baseball season....
After watching 104 games of Aeros hockey, I saw my boys fall 2 wins short of a Calder Cup tonight. Tough one, but there can only be one winner and if it had to be someone else, I’m awfully glad it’s Binghamton. Maybe there is hope for Ottawa after all. (Just kidding…)
But now, the Blue Jays are all mine. My beautiful birdies will have my full attention.
Except for next week...
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
5 posts
Eau de Overbay
Had an air conditioner repair guy out this morning to give the ol’ system a look-over and make sure we’re set for the summer.
When I was paying him and standing about 2 feet from him, my olfactory senses sprang to life…
HE SMELLS LIKE LYLE OVERBAY!
Sort of cologne, sweat, and attic dust. MAN smells.
It made my morning.
JaysSTAT is like a visual depiction of how I watch... →
My First Opening Day
I know yesterday was technically opening day but I don’t care about the rest of baseball. I only care about the Blue Jays. So today was my opening day.
Missed it last year as I was still just dipping a toe in the baseball waters at the time, feeling it out, seeing if it stuck.
It did. I was pretty jacked and running my yap at my many Minny Twins fan friends all day long.
Thanks to the...
March 2011
2 posts
It's blue BIRD of happiness but whatever...
Very disappointed in this lady on Millionaire just now.
“Cyanocitta cristata” is the scientific name of a common variety of what North American bird?
DUHHHHH. There’s BLUE in the name!
*sigh*
I woulda won the $12,500.
And then Meredith Vieira tells the gal that she hopes “the blue jay of happiness follows you wherever you go.”
So, if Snidey starts stalking...
All In
I hate to see the end of hockey season on the horizon, but I am so in love with the Jays that I may not miss it at all. I didn’t know if I could get it up for them without Overbizzle flashing it up at first, but screw that (though I’ve already picked my section for watching the Pirates when they come to Houston).
I mean, between Snidey and his food obsession and Cecil with his hockey...
February 2011
3 posts
Is it okay if...
I don’t give a flying fuck about Blue Jays training camp?
January 2011
1 post
Flipping Catcher
I kinda feel bad for people (Wilner especially) who spent a lot of time analyzing and writing about the Napoli trade and how he fits in to the Jays line-up.
He and his boob fixation (who can blame him? Boobs are awesome) are off to the Texas Rangers. He’ll enjoy Dallas. Lots of boobs there. And big hair. Hide your daughters.
And Frank Francisco is up to Toronto, presumably to be a...
December 2010
4 posts
Brett Cecil's Twitter may make me love him →
Wait, there are actually women that find goalies...
antiherov:
What the actual fuck is this and why was I not informed out it earlier?!
Hahahaha, Awesome. That’s from my blog. Unfortunately, I’m not particularly attracted to beer league goalies. I tend to go for beer league defensemen since they’re the ones doing the dirty work in front of my crease. So to speak…
Wait... What's... going... on....
This is my first baseball off-season and I feel like a little kid lost in the mall. For 24 hours I kept seeing tweets and blogs about Marcum being traded for some kid, and I was like, “Oh, okay.”
And then, like realizing the lady I’ve been walking next to since we passed the corn dog place isn’t my mom, I was like, “HEYYYY! I LIKED HIM! WTF IS GOING ON?...
November 2010
1 post
Feeling basebally
As further proof that I’m a little burned out on hockey at the moment (mostly my own, not necessarily watching it), I’m pining for my Jays today.
Is there a Lyle Overbay highlight reel of him just making ridiculous catches to get guys out at first that I can watch? That would make me happy.
Looks like it all videos of “dingers” (I had to ask Brusty what that word meant...
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
6 posts
Thing I love about baseball
Announcers. Not all of them, but certain ones, including the Jay’s. I love the rhythm to their calls. There’s so much down time, so they talk stats and whatnot and I don’t even process it because I don’t really care about that stuff, but it’s like this lovely hum, like the aural equivalent of being rocked by gentle waves.
My favorite thing this summer was having a...
More things Lyle Overbay smells like...
Burning leaves.
Black coffee.
Paint.
I’m really sad that he might not be a Blue Jay any more after this season. Not tears-sad but sad anyway. I really like that man and I’m afraid they’re going to put some cheap, unlikeable monkey at first base and things will never be the same.
That is to say, I don’t quite trust the Blue Jays with my fragile baseball heart. I’m...
1 tag
“I like to call Kevin Gregg the Bush Pilot. He gets you where you want to go, but...”
– @ShiDavidi
Tuesday I said...
Man, I wish we could play the Rangers EVERY night!
Appears that we are….
Lyle Overbay smells like....
head trauma, apparently. :(
I've been kinda busy
and I’ve missed lots of Jays games lately. So forgive my ignorance when I ask:
Who the fuck is Jo McDonald?
August 2010
10 posts
“Once a week or so, instead of taking batting practice on the field, we will take...”
– Anonymous MLB Player, ESPN the Magazine
Hmm. Informative.
(via oldtimefamilybaseball)
WHAT.
(via louihitsexhairbackdoor) ….
(via baseballbitch)
(via onahalladay)
….. is right
(via buntsfromawestcoastgirl)
PICTURES OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN, BASEBALL BOY!
Boo?
So, since I’m a baseball idiot and don’t care about numbers and such, I have to have my baseball-loving friends explain stuff to me sometimes.
Like today, I asked my buddy John to explain how the Wild Card stuff works. And more to the point, do the Jays have even the slimmest chance of getting into the playoffs?
He explained it to me and the harsh reality is not only...
Lyle Overbay is a man
I have this horribly reluctant crush on Overbay that I can’t explain or eliminate.
Plus I’m obsessed with how I imagine he must smell. Here’s my list of things I suspect Lyle Overbay smells like:
Stetson
Freshly mowed grass
BBQ smoke
Beer (but not stale)
Blue jeans
Fresh laundry
Irish Spring
Sawdust
Wet black lab (only slightly)
Gun powder
Campfire
Motor oil
Sweat
...
Just one day
Feels like a month since I saw the Jays play. In fact, apart from highlights, it has been over a week due to various conflicts. I miss them.
And yet, I kinda feel like I should wait until they leave Boston before I reunite with them.
Bizarro Yesterday
You know how I had a great goalie clinic and then the Jays were awesome? And how I was looking forward to that kind of special symmetry and euphoria tonight?
Well, I stunk and then I got in the car in the 7th inning and the Jays shit the bed.
So, eff me for getting greedy. Damn.
High Life
I was driving home last night from a great goalie clinic, Jaybirds on the XM, and the A’s radio guy wasn’t annoying the shit out of me like the Angels guys did. Yay!
It’s 0-0, middle of the third when I fire up the stinkwagon (Eau de Goalie Gear and Wet Dog), and then slowly but surely, the boys start knocking ‘em out of the park the way they do and the happy cat is...
Thing I love about baseball
When runners get caught between bases. It feels like the most schoolyard game thing that happens in any professional sport.
Meats Don't Clash in 5 other languages
Spanish - las carnes que no sean contrarios
Finnish - lihat eivät ole ristiriidassa
French - les viandes ne sont pas contraires
Welsh - Nid oes gwrthdaro cigoedd
Russian - мясо не конфликтуют
Why Meats Don't Clash? →
This is a Toronto Blue Jays blog - or blog-lite - created so I don’t sully Ms.Conduct with my random baseball thoughts and links and nonsense. And unlike hockey, I don’t have BIG thoughts about baseball because I don’t get it or love it as well, but do still like it an awful lot.
Baseball is like the guy you wanna cheat with because he’s new and charming lights your fire...