Game Threat - April 14, 2009: Twinks vs. Jays

. . . and you thought the Rogers Centre was a cavernous homage to everything against nature.

Let's begin today's blogcast by welcoming Brian Tallet to the Blue Jays starting rotation. According to MLBastian's twitterings, the jerky-making (that kind too) swingman will start Saturday afternoon's game against the Oakland A's at one o'clock in the fucking PM.

So, I guess Bill Murphy will now log more innings in the coming week than a couple of the starters.

I've got nothing in the way of stats that makes me say "yay" or "nay" for the swingman, and maybe there's something to be said for the way rotations and bullpens are way too specialized nowadays, but aside from all that, wasn't there a guy in Spring Training that almost made the rotation over Scott Richmond?

And isn't there another young starter on the farm who is expected to make a few starts this season, and isn't he scheduled to make his start on Saturday, anyway?

Anywho, the Jays are gearing up for a battle of the young lefties once again tonight, as Brad Arnsbergstein's Ricky Romero (1-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.50 WHIP) takes on changeup specialist Glen Perkins (0-1, 1.12 ERA, 0.88 WHIP).

We'll wait with baited breath to see if Cito is willing to take a chance on keeping Travis "Lunch Box" Snider's left-handed home run swing in the lineup against a starting southpaw for the first time this season.

Lineups:

Toronto Blue Jays

Scutaro - ss
Hill - 2b
Rios - rf
Wells - cf
Lind - dh
Rolen - 3b
Millar - 1b
Barajas - c
Bautista - lf

Minnesota Twins

Span - rf
Casilla - 2b
Morneau - 1b
Cuddyer - dh
Crede - 3b
Young - lf
Redmond - c
Punto - ss
Gomez - cf

I guess Snider should've done more.