Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began

Playing out the string....

Time for decisions to be made
Crack up in the sun
Lose it in the shade

Off to the Twin Cities.

Four games in Fenway, plus The Danny Jansen Game!

A blink ago we were back in school
Smoking by the gym door
Practicing our rock star attitudes

And now we're going down.

They said, Joey did this and Joey did that
Oh, that guy was crazy, what a crazy cat
Then something strange would happen, there's trouble on the way
And trouble only means one thing
Joey's on the street again

Joey really ought to be involved in these games, surely? Unfortunately, he's in the throes of a 2-26 slump in AAA, and it's hard to see this having anything resembling a happy ending.

Now one and one is two
Two and two is four
I'm heavy loaded, baby
I'm booked, I gotta go

Once upon a time, kids, there was a third major league. The ball park where the Blue Jays will be spending the weekend must be among the last surviving bits of evidence.

Well, that's a filthy lie. The Blue Jays are not playing in the City of Angels tonight. They're not even playing in Los Angeles County.

Well, I spend all night with the dealer
Tryin' to get ahead
Spend all day at the Holiday Inn
Trying to get out of bed

Oakland has a bad team, but there are degrees of bad...

A homestand, featuring a good team, a bad team, and the Blue Jays. The Orioles, currently locked in a battle for the division lead with the Yankees, are up first.

New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down

What's left of the 2024 Blue Jays will continue their road trip in the Bronx, where the Yankees are waiting. There could be carnage.

I'd like to ruffle his plumage
That Baltimore Oriole

Road trip! Beginning with a double-header against the division leaders.

We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse

It's the defending champs.

Clash of the also-rans!

A gardener told me some plants move
But I could not believe it
Til me and Hannah Hunt saw
Crawling vines and weeping willows
As we made our way from Providence to Phoenix

The Blue Jays pay a call on the defending National League champs, and catch up with a few old friends as we head into the All-Star Break.

We're trying hard to make this whole thing blend
As we sit upon this jagged storey block,
with you my friend

San Francisco, for the first time in five years.