Off Day Thoughts
bluejayhunter.com 7/2/2009 — Today the Blue Jays will enjoy a much-needed day off before they have to play four straight afternoon games at the Wind Tunnel (officially know as the new Yankee Stadium). I'm predicting that the over/under for home runs hit in this series will be somewhere around 12. Maybe I should put in a ...

Happy Mondays - A few pleasant thoughts to start your week
taoofstieb.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — Aaron Hill is historically knocking the snot out of the ball Noted racist and reluctant Parkes interview subject Aaron Hill is making up for the time he lost last year after getting brained by some scrappy infielder with more heart than brains. Hill cranked out two more homers in yesterday's ...

Jays Find A Way To Win On Canada Day!
beerswithboggs.com 7/1/2009 — So for those of you out there that didn’t know, today was Canada Day. As a result the majority of the working population in Canada got the day off, yours truly included. In celebration of a Wednesday with no work I went with the obvious day off activity, a Blue Jays game. The Jays had ...

Highs and lows through the first 90 games
bluejayhunter.com 7/13/2009 — The 2009 season is just a little over half way finished and already I feel like I’ve experienced more highs and lows than one of those crackheads on Intervention. As demonstrated by the line graph above, it’s been a roller coaster first half thanks to an incredible first few months, to a ...

Philadelphia Redeems Themselves in Series Win over Jays
bluejays.gearupforsports.com 6/29/2009 — The World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies took two out of three games from Toronto at the Rogers Centre this past weekend. The Jays had just completed a series win over the Cincinnati Reds, and had previously swept the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park from June 16th – 18th 2009, so they ...

June Reflections on the Blue Jays
baseballreflections.com 6/25/2009 — When my partner in crime, Tom, penned his last epistle about our beloved azure corvidae, things were just going great in the Queen City . He mentioned how much he was enjoying the season thus far, and confided that he wasn’t sure how long the Jays could keep it up. The answer – not ...

Blue Jays "Have To Be Open To Anything"
mlbtraderumors.com 7/6/2009 — Playing in the same division as three of the best teams in baseball is a challenge in itself, but 39 of the Blue Jays' remaining 79 games come against the Red Sox, Yankees and Rays. As Danny Knobler of CBS Sports reports, Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi ...

Make Ricky Romero a Canadian
bluejayhunter.com 7/1/2009 — Somebody get on the phone to the Governor General Michelle Jean and tell her to give Ricky Romero an honourary Canadian citizenship, because he did this this fair nation proud today. Representing Canada's baseball team in the special Canada Day jersey, Ricky Romero pitched his second straight ...

Do the Jays Have the First Half AL Rookie of the Year?
bluebirdbanter.com 7/6/2009 — Before the season started, I figured the Jays had a good shot at having the Rookie of the Year because I thought  Travis Snider would have a great season. Shows what I know. But even without him the Jays have two strong candidates for first half ...

Scouting the Blue Jays
rightoffrussell.com 7/10/2009 — Thanks to Tom Dakers at Bluebird Banter for helping us understand where the Blue Jays stand going into todays series. Give us the lowdown on the Jays over the past 2-3 series…… Lots of one run loses and irritations for us fans. If the pitching has been good, the hitting ...

At fork in road, Jays' Richmond took right turn — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 7/2/2009
It's about 2,000 miles across Canada from Edmonton to Toronto. For Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Scott Richmond, it was ...

Adam Lind: To Be a Casualty of The Current All-Star Selection Process — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/2/2009
In baseball, everyone is talking about Albert Pujols, and rightfully so.   “The Machine” is once again setting his sights on the first Triple Crown since Yaz in 1967. With less than 24 hours left to make your pick, Pujols clearly ...

Posada has bruised left thumb — Newsday.com - Yankees 7/3/2009
With the Yankees starting a set of four straight day games against Toronto today, Jorge Posada's night off would not have been unusual. But Joe Girardi said Posada's left thumb was sore after he took a foul tip directly off it Wednesday. "It just ...

Burnett is less fired up for Yanks meeting with Jays — NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 7/3/2009
A.J. Burnett will make his 16th start of this season this afternoon, facing his former team, the Blue Jays, at the Stadium. But the hard-throwing righthander won't take the mound with added incentive or any special purpose.

Settling the Ricky Romero/Troy Tulowitzki Draft Argument — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/3/2009
The day was June 7, 2005; a day that up until this year had haunted the members of Blue Jays management because it was the day that they let Troy Tulowitzki get away. That was...until Ricky Romero skyrocketed his way through the minor leagues and ...