The Toronto Blue Jays begin their 2017 home schedule with their first interleague opponent of the season. Might as well, they've had little success against the American League so far.


Former Blue Jay Eric Thames returns to Toronto where he began his major league career in 2011.

It's Toronto versus Tampa Bay on two fronts. The Toronto Maple Leafs can clinch a playoff spot for the first time since 2013 and the first time since a full 82-game schedule in 2004 with a victory over the Lightning at the Air Canada Centre.

Meanwhile, the Toronto Blue Jays can clinch their first victory of 2017 (but four would be nice!) as they begin a four-game series at Tropicana Field this evening. If that doesn't excite you, just look at the handsome picture below of the newest Blue Jay acquisition.

Catcher Luke Maile has hit .214 with three home runs and 17 runs batted in his two-year career with Tampa Bay. The Rays designated the 26 year-old for assignment.

You come in
Check my time

I got nothing up here. This song's an instrumental anyway.

You gotta roll with the punches
To get to what is real
Knock down the bastards
And show them how it feels

Didn't really expect to run the table, did you?

Which reminds me - there is exactly one unbeaten team left in the 2016 post-season.

Two pretty evenly matched teams, I'd say. And one of them deserves to lose.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept just one.  They promised to take our land, and they took it
          -  Mahpiya Luta (Red Cloud)

Be good to get this one. Right here, right now.

The Gates of Mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd Souldier, rough and hard of heart,
In libertie of bloody hand, shall raunge
With Conscience wide as Hell, mowing like Grass
Your fresh faire Virgins, and your flowring Infants.

That went well.

And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
Hath turned his balls to gun-stones, and his soul
Shall stand sore chargèd for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly with them;

Once more unto the breach...

Old men forget; yea, all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words...
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.

Win or go home.

You can never go back
You can never go back
Those days are gone
You got to move on
You can't live in the past

...

No harm, he's armed
Setting off all your alarms
When I find out
I hope it's you who set this trap

Down the street you can hear her scream
'You're a disgrace'
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool