Yankees 7, Blue Jays 3: Spare A Thought for Jo-Jo

You don't know how it feeeeeels . . . to be Jo-Jo.

What can I say -- what can anyone say -- about Jo-Jo Reyes' record-tying 28th yeah 28th straight start without a win other than that it sucks to be Jo-Jo? Lately, he's been pitching more than well enough to win and it just hasn't happened, but yesterday Jo-Jo got lit up: five runs in only three innings on a couple of home runs plus some other stuff. A deserving loss, yesterday afternoon.


So Jo-Jo now shares this strange mark of futility-yet-persistence with Matt Keough (baseball card here, mugshot here), whose non-winning streak for the Oakland Athletics lasted from September 6, 1978 through August 8, 1979, a period of time over which I was conceived, born, and began to wreck shop. When will shop next be wrecked by Jo-Jo? Hard to say. I kind of hope he sets this record first, though. It would be an oddly compelling distinction, I think.


Anyway, the last-place Toronto Blue Jays roll into Chicago tonight and it would be awesome if they could win a couple because the White Sox are pretty awful. And in case you were wondering, Jose Bautista went 1-3 with a HBP and he threw a guy out at second yesterday. On a related note, if you were wondering who the best baseball player is, it's still Jose Bautista.


KS