Just in time for Ricky Romero's debut, Batter's Box presents its exclusive interviews with the Auburn Doubledays!
Last Saturday was a lovely afternoon in New York, and I went with friend/Jays fan/Bauxite Kevin Janus to KeySpan park on Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY, to meet the D-Days prior to their game with the Brooklyn Cyclones. And not even the subsequent pea-soup fog and Auburn defeat could dampen our enthusiasm for some of the choice quotes we were able to obtain.
We enjoyed meeting the D-Days. We think you will, too.
According to
this press release, the Toronto Blue Jays have traded The Minister of Defense, John McDonald, to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later.
Most one run games are lost, not won.
- Gene Mauch
The Toronto Blue Jays have a 5-14 record in one-run games.
A pair of photographs for you today. First up, the guys in 518 making a big impression:
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill
You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
- Leo Durocher
The come-back kids ensured a minor league sweep as the affiliates went 5-0. Dunedin won in the bottom of the ninth, Lansing scored two to win in the bottom of the tenth, and Pulaski scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh, another in the bottom of the eighth, a run in the bottom of the ninth to tie, and a run in the bottom of the tenth to win. Syracuse pitching did not blow the lead and Auburn won from the front.
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Well, that is how you hope everything is going to work out when Josh Towers starts.
If you're paying attention, you know that one of the Hall of Names stories that ran earlier this week was an
All-Mickey team; as we follow it here with what is essentially an all-Willie team, you can guess the next logical step, right? If you know anything about New York City baseball in the 1950s, it should be obvious, especially with the added clue that it's all leading up to a very special musical rendition of Baseball's Hall of Names soon to follow.
But we're not just giving this team the Willies, as it were ...
Every game day, 162 times a year, Will Hill and the Blue Jays PR staff prepare pre-game notes for the media. I am sharing them with you, because... because we won't have a Game Report appearing until tomorrow? Nah - I just thought you might like to see them.
Towers and Hillenbrand deliver the punches, as the Jays finish off the sweep.
Your observations?
Magpie made a comment yesterday that made me think.
More new material from this past weekend against the D-Rays for photo of the day. Today's photograph features Russ Adams, watching the game unfold from the dugout:
There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.
--- Jim Palmer
