Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 0; Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 1; Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 3: I Was Getting Set to Declare The Blue Jays a Juggernaut But Then They Lost One

A noble effort by Kevin Pillar, who we all like, but this rattled around for a triple

The Blue Jays continue to be extremely .500, like just as .500 as it gets. This is both literally true, in that they stand at this very moment of composition a pleasingly symmetrical 16-16, but also in the broader sense that this is all they are or ever could be. I do not mean this as a slight but instead a sympathetic expression of human solidarity.  

R. A. Dickey very much took the loss yesterday, and while we are all of us sophisticates who recognize that there are few statistics as misleading as pitcher wins and pitcher losses, it occurred to me that Dickey pretty much has to be leading the league in losses at this point, because, I mean, yikes so far, right? However, while Dickey's account now stands at a lowly 1-4, it turns out there are like three dudes who have lost five, so it's not yet as bad as it could be, or indeed definitely will be in the fullness of time.

But while Dickey is merely in the running for the league lead in pitcher losses, he is far ahead of the field in Honorary Word-Hoards, to which we add today sāmwīs, which our pal J. R. Clark Hall defines as "stupid, dull, foolish" in his Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and sure, yeah, definitely,  but it is worth keeping in mind that literally it is more like "half-wise" or "semi-wise," like, for example, this lil fella right here:

this is by Mohaddeseh Taheri (on deviant art here)

And while I am not here to tell you how to feel I think it is probably important to love him.

KS