Unearned

You have to be shitting me! Did the teams switch around or something 'cause this is outrageous! Not only did the Royals tack on more runs on Litsch than everybody's favourite blue birds put on a 5.87 ERA starter in Perez, but the Royals played good defence, and the Jays looked like kids!

I'm sure everybody remembers that movie that doesn't exist where two personalities just switch in a matter of minutes, and everythings just fucked up... oh yeah, that movie does exist! Freaky Friday! But this game was different in the fact that I didn't watch it for the sole purpose of seeing Lohan's huge tits.

I can't even remember the last time I got angry at the Jays' defence, but today was a different story. One error, I can handle-- hell, even two! Three or more is un-fuckin-acceptable. Not only did two great defenders in Aaron Hill and Lyle Overbay make errors, but Hector "look-at-me, I'm-a-useless-motherfuck" Luna made one too, making me dispise him even more than I already do.

We have a hell of a lot of infield prospects, why did we bother picking him up? It cost us Howie Clark, who was really great defensively, and he hasn't contributed one bit. I just can't wait until September when Sergio Santos has the opportunity to play in the bigs, show his stuff. The First-round pick belted 17 homeruns this year in AA and is expected to be called up in September for a cup of coffee along with catcher Robinzon Diaz.

Anyway, in a different matter, Josh Towers is being sought after by many clubs including the Colorado Rockies. On Sunday, the Rockies sent RHP Tim Harikkala to work versus the Cubs because they couldn't trade for a starter in time. Reports say that they're looking at trading for either Towers or Orioles' veteran right-hander Steve Trachsel as they both have cleared waivers. Towers could be traded in the next several days. Although, the Jays probably won't get much in return so don't get too excited. Remember that Towers is just a mediocre pitcher and is only signed through this year, so the Rockies won't be willing to give up much for him, maybe a semi-promising prospect.

On the note of trading players, let me get this clear as many people have talked to me about this recently. All the time I hear from so many people that A.J. Burnett should be traded, and I'm really hoping that after yesterday's near flawless effort those people might come to their senses and shut the fuck up. A.J. Burnett will stay in Toronto, period. He's a great pitcher when healthy, and it's a shame he isn't healthy more often. But, for that same reason, we can't trade him. Think about it, teams won't trade much for a pitcher that might be on the DL for 75% of the season. Also, with Toronto's luck, the year he leaves he won't go on the DL once and win the Cy Young with flying colours, it's bound to happen.

The SOBAs

The "It's-All-Your-Fault-You-Son-Of-a-Bitch" Award goes to...

Frank Thomas, almost unanimously. The Big Hurt had 4 AB, in one of them he got a double, fantastic. In the other three, however, he left runners in scoring position with two out, including once striking out with the bases loaded, and two out. Plus, I'm sure if he wasn't a DH he'd have an error too...

Just Sayin'...

I know I'm not the first to be pissed off that Aaron Hill wasn't in the All-Star game, even though it was so long ago, but I just wanted to note that Hanley Ramirez and Eric Byrnes, the only two players with at least 15 homeruns and 30 stolen bases, weren't in the all-star game either-- Hanley's also an MVP candidate. So don't feel too bad that Hill didn't make it.

The Good

Well, despite losing, Litsch pitched a pretty good ballgame. He did allow 5 runs, but only two were earned because he really didn't get any help from his defence.

There were actually a few good defensive plays; one by Alex Rios in the first when he pretended to be running slowly to the ball so that David DeJesus would try to stretch and single into a double, but then he sped up and threw a strike to Johnald McDonald to tag him out by a mile. What a ninja. The second good defensive play was by, who else? The Wizard! He dove for a ball and threw out the runner from his knees. Paint that shit gold.

The Bad

Not only did we lose but we lost to the Royals! We needed to take at-least 3-of-4 and we didn't, what a bitch, eh?

Frank Thomas couldn't come up in the clutch, at all. He came up three times with two outs and runners in scoring position and still couldn't produce. The team as whole, though, couldn't produce with RISP, like always on the road.

Vernon missed yet another ball he would've gotten last year, and it ended up being a 2-run triple in the favour of Ross Gload.

The Ugly

Our defence, as a whole, was awful. Hector Luna and Lyle Overbay made errors on very easy plays, and they both were very costly. Aaron Hill's error wasn't as bad, the ball was hit sharply and Hill just couldn't catch it on the short-hop. If we didn't make any errors, we would have gone into extra innings in theory. That really just kicks you in the ass.