I’m Adopting
Apr 2, 2008 MLB
Made the decision last night — officially anyway.
I can’t go through an entire season of major league baseball as depressed as watching and cheering only for the Giants would make me. I’m not renouncing my Giants fanhood by any stretch of the imagination. They are still “it”. But I can’t write about them on a regular basis and maintain my sanity.
The roster is a disgrace, and the manager is making it worse (Aaron Rowand hitting sixth!). Fantastic young pitching getting beaten down by a lineup that can’t score (if Matt Cain goes on a murderous rampage and half the locker room is left dead I would both understand and immediately forgive him).
This is a team that is supposedly built around defense and speed that doesn’t play defense well and doesn’t steal bases. It’s a joke.
So I’m going to follow and write about the Blue Jays, too. The most important aspect of this choice is that they are in the AL. They don’t play the Giants, so I don’t feel as slimy as I otherwise might as a sports polygamist.
They are close, too, obviously. I’ll be able to attend several games in Toronto this summer. I like the roster, it has some real young talent (Alex Rios, Dustin McGowan, Jesse Litsch) to go along with some well known veterans (Vernon Wells, Frank Thomas, Roy Halladay).
They’re unlikely to challenge the Red Sox and Yankees for AL East supremacy, but they aren’t so bad that it’s impossible, either.
At the very least, they might help me stay off Prozac for the summer.
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