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Geoff Watches the Toronto Blue Geays Game

 
For something completely different today, I decided to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play baseball. How unlike me. The Jays took on the New York Yankees in the Bronx, and I settled into my couch and took notes. For your reading pleasure, I have put them in chronological order. Enjoy! Pregame -The sky looks angry today. So does my cat. -A.J. Burnett pitches for the Yankees and Brian Tallet goes for the Blue Jays. -Rod Barajas is quoted by Jamie Campbell as saying that these are the games that will prove the Jays are "for real", which questions the validity of the other 161 games of the season. That and the existence of the Matrix. -A.J. Burnett takes the mound wearing a red Fourth of July hat. The Jays are wearing their Canada Day hats still. It's official people, National Hat Fight Day! -The announcers promptly jinx the entire game by mentioning that Yankees Stadium is easy to hit home runs out of. I prepare to watch nine innings of no-hit baseball. -That You Belong at The Game ... (link)

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