503...Oh No, Ontario

We hit the All Star break for Major League Baseball secure in the knowledge that yet again the Toronto Blue Jays will be out of the run for the roses come this fall.

A sad turn of events especially considering how promising the season started.

Next year, then.

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289...Muhammad Ali's Son Drafted

Like father, like son. The getting drafted thing.

Rhett Bollinger reports in MLB.com that there is one huge difference: Unlike 1967, the champion is happy about the draft of his son Asaad Ali, a 5-foot-10, 224-pound catcher in round 40 of the major league baseball draft this week. Mr. Ali, who is a senior at Niles (Mich.) High School, was drafted by the Los Angeles Orange County California Anaheim Angels.

A sidebar, baseball leaves no stone unturned, drafting thousands of players. Example thereof would be the greatest hitting catcher of all time, Mike Piazza, who went to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 62nd round in 1988.

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227...How About Them Blue Jays, Part Two

A while back I was waxing about what a genius Cito Gaston was and how he had the Blue Jays de Tronna in the driver's seat.

Wrong again.

They be sinking faster than a stone in the ocean.

Next year.

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204...What Once Was New Is Now Old

While we in my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario debate what to do with Lansdowne Park, our venerable football stadium, which was last refurbished as a Centennial Project in the mid 1960's, comes this little tidbit of information courtesy of Wednesday's Toronto Star: Roger's Centre, the former Skydome, home of the Toronto Blue Jays, Argonauts and Monster Truck Shows, is now the 9th oldest stadium in Major League Baseball.

If you recall, when the stadium, which cost about four times what basic stadiums were going for back in the day, the day being the late 1980's, it was an ohh, ah, omg kind of place what with its retractable roof and all.

Now it is venerable, bordering on dinosaurish. A bit dingy and cave like with the roof closed too.

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