Jays @ Yankees - April 3rd - Blue Jays baseball blog

April 03, 2008

Jays @ Yankees - April 3rd

4:05 p.m. - Good news first. Dustin McGowan's stomach flu will not keep him from starting tonight. And X-rays on Marco Scutaro's right hand, which was hit by a pitch last night, are negative. Also, Matt Stairs makes his season debut tonight in left-field and batting second in the order.

Add that to a convincing 5-2 win against the Yankees, and the clubhouse seems pretty content a few hours before the rubber match of this opening series.

One amusing note from the daily bull session with manager John Gibbons. The Post's Jeremy Sandler brought his laptop into Gibbons' office and showed him this strange and amusing feature at the New York Times.

A mathematician has taken the statistical data about the tendencies of the 30 major league managers and expressed it in the form of facial expressions, called Chernoff faces. It looks a little kooky, but I'm sure it's good enough to get someone a nice fat grant from Elias Sports Bureau.

Gibbons looked at his own representation, which strikes me as a little Kilelber elf-ish owning to his reluctance to bunt, and asked, "What is that (expression)? Puzzled?"

Then he took issue with his virtual hairstyle, which as best as I can tell has something to do with the use of pinch hitters and runners.

Bottom line: he looks a damn sight better than Phil Garner's avatar, which looks deranged.

Cathal Kelly

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found this on the boston globe, seems like a nice locker room print out for the jays...

http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/wilbur/sports_blog/blog/2008/04/04/division_isnt_for_the_birds/

Posted by: flor | April 04, 2008 at 04:36 PM

Ummm...when is the right time to stop saying 'the manager can't hit for the players' and 'JP has done all he can, injuries aren't his fault' or 'Godfrey doesn't suck' or 'Why does his son have ANYTHING to do with the club'?
3 or 4 years of .500 ball with a payroll that's tripled is enough to say sayonara, no? I mean Joe Dumars just fired Flip Saunders for ONLY making it to the Eastern Conference finals for the last 3 years.
Please advise. BTW, I'm moving to Chicago with A.J.

Posted by: jon | June 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM

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Richard Griffin began working for the Star as baseball columnist on Feb.13, 1995. Griffin began his career in major-league baseball with the Montreal Expos in 1973 while attending Concordia University. He became director of publicity in 1978. Griffin is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown as '93 winner of the Robert O. Fishel Award and has been at all or part of every World Series since 1978.

April 03, 2008