Blue Jays (SS) 8, Twins 2; Blue Jays 7, Yankees 5; Blue Jays 6, Astros 3: So Here's The Thing

Score that an E5

Far be it from me to even come anywhere close to saying Spring Training standings mean anything at all. That the Blue Jays are 11-2 so far is better than being 2-11 (what's up, Atlanta?) but is, on the whole, not actually relevant to anything at all even a little, because absolutely nobody's priority is winning Grapefruit League baseball games. That much is indisputable. But Travis Snider is totally hitting! Kyle Drabek and Dustin McGowan both pitched three strong innings today! There are national media -- national American media -- stories about how the Blue Jays are on the cusp of being better than just pretty OK! And I'm listening to all these "away" radio feeds because I guess Rogers doesn't think anybody would want to listen to Blue Jays Grapefruit League baseball on a Thursday afternoon (they are wrong to think that by the way) and all the other broadcast teams are like "hey now, these Blue Jays, why not!" That is exactly how I feel about this right now. 


KS

2-3

Hope.

Pitchers + Catchers = True Love Forever

It's the first day of Spring Training!  It's also Valentine's day.  It's actually kind of strange that these two events would fall on the same day, since one is a completely trivial non-event dreamt up by the vast consumerist machine and propagated by a servile, complicit media as a way to make lonely people even more miserable than they might otherwise be by dangling the hope of love and fulfillment in front of them before the harsh realities of a cold and unforgiving world snatches it away, and the other is Valentine's Day.  But whatever, here's to baseball, man, baseball, and, specifically, to the feelings it engenders.    

KS