With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
Like Rasputin, these Jays don't give up so easily. A thumping good time at Skydome yesterday as the Boys in White and Grey knocked off the Indians 6-1. Get all the details from:
The Star: Lilly dominates lefty clash
MLB.com: Lilly coasts on early lead
CP: Jays muscle past Indians
The Globe & Mail: Rios provides a glimpse of the future
The Sun: Jays enjoy their holiday, which includes this account of the scary bad-hop smash off Lou Merloni's face: "The sunglasses saved me ... if not for the glasses, the ball would have hit me in the skull." Which really raises the important question: what was Lou Merloni doing playing first base for the Indians? Maybe the Jays should lend them Chris Gomez for the week.
Toronto's win was only one of two games played in the majors yesterday; Boston doubled Tampa Bay 6-3 in the other. A few notes of interest to Canadian fans on a quiet baseball news day:
* The Expos lost pitcher Zach Day for several weeks to a broken finger, more bad news for a franchise that hopes it can see some light at the end of the tunnel.
* Ernie Whitt and the Canadian Olympic team prepare for the five-ring circus in Athens. We all know that Canada is going to get blown out of the water in the Olympics, right? We're all comfortable with that fact going in?
* With the NHL lockout looking, the Globe's Brian Milner argues that the league's owners are heading down a self-destructive path, and that far from breaking the union, they should instead be breaking their own bad habits; he quotes an author who holds up baseball's union as the model players' association. Colour me skeptical that NHL owners will learn any lessons from their brethren in baseball.
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