With fans and TV friends like these, there's no happy medium

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 With fans and TV friends like these, there's no happy medium
Travis Snider's splendid home debut betrayed everything all that is soulless and wrong about the Rogers Blue Jays, their main TV carrier and Toronto's alleged sports fans. It was twofold. Sportsnet, as Drunk Jays Fans pointed out, was doing an interview with an ex-Leafs hockey player and thus ignored the super-prospect's first at-bat. Secondly, the lack of a warm welcome when Snider came up was [link]

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Walkoffs, playoffs and brushoffs
Published 9/4/2008 by Tao of Stieb (noreply@blogger.com) at The Tao of Stieb
... We were listening to the game on the radio last night with a head full of NyQuil, so we missed the visuals of Travis Snider's first at bat in Toronto. From the sounds of things (via two outstanding posts from Neate at Out of Left Field and ...

Top O' The Order: With healthy Pavano, sky's the limit for Yanks
Published 9/4/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... . Broadcaster says Jays fans should be "ashamed" of themselves. In other news, hockey pucks are black, skate blades are sharp. [Out Of Left Field] ...

Morning Blogdome: A Moment That Will Provide You With A Fleeting Feeling Of Invincibility [Morning Blogdome]
Published 9/4/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
... mentioned to somebody before off the air and they said, 'That's what you get in this city. People just don't understand.' And I try my best not to give in to the people who say Toronto's not a baseball-savvy town and the fans don't understand baseball and you know, whatever. But that showed me something. And that was just terrible — terrible! Everyone who was at the ballpark tonight should be ashamed of themselves for not giving Travis Snider a better welcome to the big leagues."[Out Of Left Field] ...

THE AFTER PARTY
Published 9/4/2008 by DCScrap (noreply@blogger.com) at Epic Carnival - Pop Culture, Sports, Celebrities, Babes, Rumors, Innuendo
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