Pre-Game Snack

- The Jays' improbable playoff push not enough for you? Alright, have some more proof that the whole world has gone fucking crazy and nobody out there gives a shit about the rules: Jamie Campbell wrote a halfway decent blog post. Granted, it's only decent because it recounts the time that he basically told Vin Scully to go fuck himself, but still.

- The prolific and constantly outstanding Neate Sager went to bat for us this week over the slight misuse of the word nails-- which we apparently re-introduced to the Peterborough area-- by Wayne Scanlan in the Ottawa Citizen. Actually, I kind of first remember hearing "nails" being used by Shaun Higgins ca. 2002 to describe some broad, so I guess Neate went to bat for Shiggsy. But he's still right, and more importantly, his heart was in the right place.

- OK, I'm shitfaced now.

- Neate, evidently, also noticed the shittiness of MacLean's sports blogging efforts long before I, or the Tao, did. And now, yes, I must admit something that's come to the public's attention over the last twenty-four hours: I did know MacLean's still existed. I only ever said that I didn't as a joke, and if I had known that some hacks were so unfunny that they wouldn't even get that, I probably would have drawn more attention to it-- such as, in a second post, perhaps. Hmmm...

- In response to assholes pointing out that the Jays hitters having "confidence" under Cito, which had me screaming at the radio during this afternoon's JaysTalk: they look confident because they're fucking winning. When they're not winning, they don't look confident. So please, seriously, shut the fuck up about this. Cito deserves plenty of credit here, he doesn't need the world of make be-fucking-lieve on his side.

- Rickey Henderson was a Jay for a few minutes, so as far as I'm concerned, this interview counts as grist for the Jays mill. And what fucking nails grist it is. "I realized they were afraid to put me on the bases. Why would I rush at the plate? They ain't gonna walk me, they're afraid I'm going to create all kind of damage. So why would I swing at your garbage when I know you gotta come to me? When I'm at the plate, I know the owner, the manager, everybody, says 'Get ahead of him. Please don't walk him because he'll be at third base.' Then you wait on that pitch to drive and you crush it."

- How much more focused is the media microscope when you're playing in Boston? Markham's George Kottaras just made his major league debut for the Sox in the first game of today's doubleheader, and they fucking already have tracked down the story of where his parents were when it happened-- buying a couch at Sears. "She was actually at Sears buying a couch and was walking by [the television] and saw me coming to the plate," said George Kottaras. "They were there for an hour and a half watching the game. I don't know if they bought [the couch] -- they said they were sitting on the recliners. I was walking to the plate, and they were like, 'Oh my God, he's coming to the plate.' It was cool."

- Unlike Rickey, Ozzie Guillen never played for the Jays. But that doesn't mean he doesn't give a kick fucking ass interview, worthy of sharing with you all-- even if a lot of you are fuckfaces. (Not you though. I respect you.)