Jays vs. Yankees - ALCS Preview

Well, hope springs eternal.

Early morning in Dunedin - 8:50 right now. Press box quiet. Flags whipping in right-centre. Storms predicted for later today (thanks to the awesome computing power of the Channel 9's Doppler 9000), but hopefully we'll get a game in.

Phil Hughes versus Jesse Litsch today and what's sure to be an understrength Yankees batting order (does such a thing really exist?). Line-ups to come.

Song of the Day: Let's do a shoutout to the Bombers with the Bronx's greatest hip hop export, Grandmaster Flash. Any day that starts with The Message is bound to be a good one. By the by, the fact that Rolling Stone only saw fit to make this song #51 on the top 500 of all time is a musical crime.

For now, let's just enjoy a Gulf Coast morning. See you soon.

Toronto line-up:
1 - Eckstein
2 - Rolen
3 - Johnson
4 - Wells
5 - Thomas
6 - Overbay
7 - Hill
8 - Stewart
9 - Zaun

Also, pitchers Jamie Vermilyea, Ryan Ketchner and Jeremy Cummings have been reassigned to minor-league camp.

Cathal Kelly

Comments

[karim kanji]

all right! i am jacked for this game! please keep awake till after the game is done! try some energy drinks or black strong coffee. do you get tim horton's down there? See! Life ain't so grand in sunny Florida...it's suppossed to snow agiain here in toronto soon....go jays go!!!!!!!

[Brian Seddon]

Please write a factual report, not encompassing weird phrases such as you tend to write, it is not clever, and uninteresting to boot.

Example:
Song of the Day: Let's do a shoutout to the Bombers with the Bronx's greatest hip hop export, Grandmaster Flash. Any day that starts with The Message is bound to be a good one. By the by, the fact that Rolling Stone only saw fit to make this song #51 on the top 500 of all time is a musical crime.

[Tom]

I disagree with the above comment and enjoy your sidebars. I know it's probably necessary occasionally to keep your sanity during the slow times at Spring Training.