Jays Roundup - Hang Up Your Chairs To Better Sweep

Friday, May 28 2004 @ 09:36 AM EDT

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

Clear the floor to dance
Throw the walls into the fireplace

SWEEEEEEEP!

  1. Reports on another one run win: Spencer Fordin's "Halladay completes sweep of Halos", Doug Miller's "Angels swept away by Halladay", Larry Millson's "Halladay's effort holds", Mike Ganter's "Sweep, sweep chirp the Jays", Geoff Baker's "Jays, Halladay sweep out Angels", and CP's "Jays survive late rally".

  2. Fordin Notes on the beginning of the Rios era. As with all of the Fordin Notes, I highly recommend reading this one. Both Spencer and J.P. address some of the issues we've been discussing over the last few days:

      Rios is Toronto's best prospect, and the team was tempted to break Spring Training with him on the roster. However, fiscal sanity won the day: The Blue Jays are worried about starting his clock, making Rios eligible for arbitration sooner than necessary.

      With a two-month detour at Triple-A Syracuse under his belt, Rios is ready to make his Major League debut and settle into right field, which could be his home for the next decade or more. J.P. Ricciardi, Toronto's general manager, acknowledged that it might not be perfect timing for his promotion. He also said that it was inevitable and that it couldn't hurt to get an early look.

      "I think it benefits both," he said, speaking about the team and the player. "The guy was drafted in '99, so it's his sixth year in professional baseball. It's like Miguel Cabrera -- he came from Double-A to the big leagues. It's not the ideal situation. Desperate times, desperate measures."

    Rios went 1 for 4 last night and scored a run, as reported in Mike Ganter's "Time for Rios to strut stuff".

  3. Tonight's game features the 4-4 R.A. Dickey for the 26-20 Texas Rangers vs. the 2-2 lefty Ted Lilly for the 20-27 Blue Jays. It's a 7:05 start at the Dome. Spencer Fordin has a game preview and the 8 year old in me thinks "Lilly Dickey" sounds really funny.

  4. If you missed it, our own Brent Smith was Fan of the Game (500 level) on Wednesday. Nice work!

  5. I'd just like to take this moment and thank the Cheer Club for all their terrific work as of late. Stuck here in one of the colonies (London, ON) instead of at the centre of the universe, I can't get to as many games as I'd like. You guys are doing an amazing job, and I look forward to catching up with you soon. Any plans for this weekend?


Diversion of the Day

An idea I stole from this guy who stole it from someone else. Anyhow, you can design yourself as a Southpark character. It's quite fun, and if you know how to use a simple graphics program like MS Photo Editor and have your own web space, you can even share your results. Here's me:



The pink is too light, but other than that, it's a pretty good match.

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