Jays Roundup - I've Come Across the Desert

Monday, March 15 2004 @ 08:01 AM EST

To greet you with a smile.

1. Fordin Notes on the bullpen, today written by Justice B. Hill. Is that supposed to be a pseudonym, like I. B. Chillin or Chesty La Rue?

2. Justice also serves yesterday's boxscore. I now see why title writers use really bad puns; it's easier than coming up with something creative. Headlines are like a prison, a prison with no walls.

3. You can also read the Associated Press version of the game report in the Star.

4. Fordin reports that "Jays play Spring Training 'Survivor'". Never cared much for the show; wake me when they start playing Spring Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Indeed!

5. Larry Millson of the Globe also has a Notebook, his with content on the Jays Justin Miller. Do Millson and Fordin have actual media notebooks, or do they have to type things directly into their iMacs. Do they also get a fedora that has the word PRESS on it? That'd be pretty sweet.

6. Millson also reports on yesterday's game in "Unknowns hook Hentgen". Pat Hengten gave up his mustache? Now who is supposed to be the cop when the Jays parody the Village People?

7. Geoff Baker of the Star reports on the rebuilding of Hentgen's arm in "Blue Jay father-son act: Pat Hentgen and dad lean on each other for support". It turns out they could rebuild him. They had the technology.

8. Dave Perkins of the Star writes that "The stars don't come out for spring trips". That's nice, but where's Griffin today? Is he warming up his arm? I publicly challenge Griffin to a baseball throwing contest. I'd easilly win against that old curmudgeon, plus I'd even hit the cutoff man.

9. In Bob Elliott's "The Last Word ", he reports that "[i]f the Blue Jays stars are any barometer, a majority of major-leaguers would not only agree to steroid testing, they would encourage it." To save you from reading the article, I'll let you know that the last word is "members".

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