Land of the Leaf

It was a great afternoon in Toronto, although I missed most of it by sitting in a dome for over three hours.  There’s nothing cold draught beer can’t fix, and if you throw in some baseball then you’ve got yourself a pretty solid afternoon.  Brett Cecil was what you call “effectively wild”.  He mixed snappy 93mph fastballs with grooving sliders over six innings only surrenduring one earned-run and striking out six.  Cecil walked no one, but he hit three batters and the Indians were pretty pissed.

Jesse Carlson came in and blew it in the 7th inning.  His slider has looked like shit lately.  It looked like our Jays were going down but Adam Lind and Scott Rolen crushed back-to-back long bombs off of some stiff named Sipp.  “Snakeface” took over for the final 1.2 innings and should list ‘lowering my ERA’ as an activity on Facebook.  10-6 Jays, Lind’s three-run shot and 2-run single earlier gave him five RBI’s on the day.

Weekday afternoon games present an offer of luxury to the stay-at-home types, bloggers, bums, looters, and those that enjoy a couple cold beverages at midday.  I’m so excited that I’m completely forgetting about tonight’s game versus Cleveland.  That’s because of the added intrigue of watching 22-year old left handed Brett Cecil’s first Major League start on Tuesday afternoon.

Cecil hasn’t exactly ripped it up at triple-A Las Vegas, he’s coming to Toronto holding an 0-3 recored with a swollen 8.31 ERA.  With just nine strikeouts in 17+ innings, he hasn’t really been “effectively wild” either.  I’m not doubting Cecil’s potential, I’m just hoping that the (probably) brief call-up to Toronto jolts his confidence for tomorrow’s matinee.

There's Arny, making Purcey Suck

Bastian Tweeted this dick sweller:  Up to Jays from AAA: Brett Cecil, Robert Ray, Brian Wolfe. Sent down to AAA: David Purcey, Brian Burres, Bryan Bullington

I take back all that shit I said about signing Pedro, it’s Cecil-time!