Meet the lynx! Come on and meet the lynx

Well I would never want to actually meet the Lynx, but Friday marked the 3rd time in four weeks -and 4th time overall this year- that I've taken in a ball game. It was the best one yet as the Syracuse Skychiefs, Toronto's farm team, were in town. The crowd was unbelievably lively and raucous. A lot of players who had spent time with the Jays were there that night, including: Russ Adams, Adam Lind, Sal Fasano (and his big moustache), John Hattig, Chad Motolla, and Ryan Roberts. The personal attacks on Sal Fasano and his facial hair were relentless. I called out Ryan Roberts on his hideous tattoos that covered his arms. I think we called him escaped prison inmate as he batted. Another line was, "When did you get out of the joint?" The beauty of all this is that it was televised by rogers cable 22 and I realize that I want to acquire a tape as you can clearly hear all the heckling on those telecasts. Lastly, I bugged Adam Lind who had struggled with a .230 average at the major league level before being sent down. As he sat watching the game from the dugout, I asked him if John Gibbons was a jerk, and if he had fought him. This was an obvious reference to the incident last season that Gibbons had with Shea Hillenbrand (now ex-jay).

The night was amazing as I enjoyed a Beavertail at St-Laurent Shopping Centre before-hand. My first in years and it was a Killahoe Sunrise. I then enjoyed the small size beer ($5 vs 10$ = easy choice for this fella) in the warm weather, all while heckling my guts out. The company was good too as people from work came. I am debating going to Monday's game as well as A.J. Burnett is throwing his rehab game. I have waited a long time to bust AJ's balls on his career .500 performance. This will be a great opportunity! Ideally, we would be fighting eachother on top of the dugout by the 5th inning and our infamous security friend, Robocop, would have to intervene.

Today, I cruised around with H doing errands in the awesome blossom CR-V. I found a likely source for new glasses (Costco), bought a baseball from Canadian Tire, almost pulled the trigger on buying a digital camera, and developped an unhealthy obsession with finding a Dockers polo shirt from Sears in a certain light denim colour. The ones in the store were all large and my search online yielded nothing as the colour I wanted couldn't be found. Further confounding the problem is that I couldn't find it on Dockers' website. My prospects now involve visiting the Sears store at Rideau Centre, visiting a Sears store in Hamilton this upcoming weekend, or looking in the Sears printed catalogue and ordering it. It's safe to say that I'll be channelling a lot of energy into this. Oh well, I'm sure my best man speech won't take long to write...

This long weekend is packed with stuff to do and I am trying to make the best of it. Talk to you later, bloggers.