MW: Crossed the border. I said the furthest west I had been in Canada was Sarnia.

A couple days ago you guys were talking about the last home run hit into the 500 level. I think the Bengie Molina one that one caller brought up would definetly be the one that comes to mind. But I think Rios hit one on May 17th of this year against the White Sox that went into the 500′s. Can you confirm that for me?

MW: As you know now, neither of those homers went into the 500s. Molina’s went into a suite on the 400 level, right above Tom Cheek’s name on the Level of Excellence. Rios’ homer on May 17th of this year landed in the 100-level seats.

MW: League does give up runs almost every time out. Or to be more accurate, he has been scored upon in eight of his last 24 outings.

Prior to his 125 pitch effort on June 10th he threw between 88 and 103 pitches in his 13 starts. What was up with that 125 pitch stint? He never pitched anything resembling a good game in the five starts he made after that game. John Gibbons was fired on June 19th. This fiasco may well have had something to do with it. I wonder what Gibbon’s views on this might be now.

Was this sudden increase in pitches thrown really necessary? It looks like another promising career is now down the drain. Wonderful.

MW: You can’t honestly believe that 25 extra pitches in one start caused this, can you?

Over the past few seasons I’ve been observing a routine that Vernon uses in the outfield on easy fly balls with no runners on: Wells trots/walks to the ball, casually lifts his glove, makes the catch, takes a second to stare at the ball in the glove, then flips it into the infield. This routine frustrates me because it gives the impression of a disinterested or “this is too easy for me” attitude. On two occasions during Wednesday’s game with an easy fly, Vernon had some bounce to his step, caught the ball, and fired it into the infield (something I hadn’t seen in a while).
Do you think this is just coincidental timing to the espn article? Is he trying to live up to the “He runs hard through the bag on every ground ball” comment from the article? Or am I just imagining all of this?
Thank you,

MW: I think you’re just imagining. And no one runs hard through the bag on every ground ball.

Beginning Monday the Jays have 85 games remaining including:

19 games versus the Rays (leading the AL with a +73 run differential)

13 games versus the Red Sox (44-27)

16 games versus the Yankees (39-32)

That’s 48 of 85 games against very tough AL East opposition.

In the team’s first 77 games they played only nine games against these teams.

Good luck boys. Me thinks you’ll need it and a whole lot more.

I’m hoping you are exaggerating the height of the catch Rolen made on purpose. It’s sounds like you’re serious though and if so, you should rethink that height you think he got to. Rolen could MAYBE hit 11 feet at the peak of his jump and that’s being generous. 16 or 17 feet is not possible for anyone not named Yao.

MW: You people continue to impress me.

Both ESPN and MLB have Wells at 11 for his last 32…..that’s only a .344 BA.

They also both have him at 13 for his last 38. I don’t know where you are getting your stats from, but I suspect that they are incorrect. I suspect that you are taking his hits for his last eight games and dividing by his at bats for his past seven games. Not sure why anybody would want to do that. It certainly doesn’t give you a player’s BA.

MW: I got them from my own scoresheets. I’ll check again……..oops, it was 13-for-34. Sorry about that.