Make Your Own Roundup, and Can Hillenbrand Repeat As An All-Star?

Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 08:00 AM EST

Contributed by: Named For Hank

To get you started on making your own roundup of what's happening out there in Jays-land, here's a Geoff Baker piece that contains one hell of a promise from Shea Hillenbrand:

"I'm very confident that it's now going to allow me to become a player who can hit 30 home runs and drive in 100,'' Hillenbrand, the subject of widespread trade rumours, said yesterday in a telephone interview from his home in Arizona. "I've been in this game a certain number of years and I felt it was time to take things to the next level. You can quote me on that: I think I'm going to hit 30."

Let this also serve as the prediction thread:

1) Can he do it?

2) Will it be as a Jay?

3) Will he make the All-Star team again?

My Shea Hillenbrand All-Star jersey pretty much dictates that my answer must be "yes" to all three. It's like that thing controls my mind sometimes.

And speaking of the Shea Hillenbrand All-Star jersey -- a few days ago I was wearing it while killing time at a Starbucks/Chapters in Brampton with baby Theo, both of us waiting for Mrs. Hank to finish work. I was drinking coffee, and Theo was eating raisins. A guy walked past, slowed down to have a good look at my jersey. Then he walked back the other way, looking at the jersey again. Then he came past a third time, and this time he stopped and said, "Did you win that jersey off of Robert Dudek?"

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