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Steve Rogers was a 4-F civilian who hated the Nazis so much that he was willing to became a human subject for the Super Soldier Serum, eventually transforming into Captain America. Steve Rogers is also a man from Jackson City, Missouri, who, ironically, played his…
Known fact that Nazis hate fastballs.
He approached Guerrero during the team’s workout on Sunday and showed him what reporters had been writing about him after going just 1-for-7 in the pivotal Game 2 that saw the Yankees win in extra innings to take a 2-0 lead in the ALCS.Vlad can make me so angry (so so so angry) and yet with one swing he always seems to remind us Angels fans whose shoulders we’ve always leaned on when we had no one else.
“I told him that these guys think you’re done but that I knew that he still had horns on his head,” Hatcher said.
The strategy certainly worked, as Guerrero was his old self in Game 3 at Angel Stadium by hitting the crucial two-run homer in the sixth inning off left-hander Andy Pettitte that tied the game at 3.
It was just Guerrero’s way of proving that he’s still a superstar and he can respond to the criticism that has been thrown upon him recently with his postseason hitting funk.
“I told Mickey I’m a human being, not a robot,” Guerrero said through a translator. “And overall I just responded the only way I know how to respond.”
I’m not one to reminisce about the Montreal Expos very much, since I never followed them as a Blue Jays fan, but Vladimir Guerrero was always one of my favourite ballplayers when I first gazed upon his no-glove batting stance and rocket arm at old (and dumpy) Olympic Stadium. Injuries and age have finally caught up to him, but his natural talent is so immense, a decrepit Vlad is still a dangerous Vlad. Like Roy Halladay, I will continue to marvel at Vladimir Guerrero because he’s my bridge to what baseball felt like in the past.
Just give him a bat and watch him play baseball.
I mean, I understand that people are scared of this damn Expos scenario, seeing as it comes up over and over and over, but seriously, if you’re making this comparison you need to understand the history of the Expos a little better… over seven seasons from 1998 to 2004 only once did the Expos average more than 12,000 fans per game—including four seasons where their average was less than the worst ever crowd in the history of the Rogers Centre. After 1994 their average attendance never again broke 20,000.
Compare that to the Jays, where before this shit season, they had never averaged less than 20,000 at Rogers Centre, and in fact, attendance has risen each of the last six years, peaking at over 29,000 last year…Honestly, it’s piss down the throat of Expos fans to even try to claim there’s symmetry in the two situations. Those poor fucks took kicks to the balls for fucking years before everything finally went down the toilet. It was a slow and painful death, and as much as contracts like the ones handed out to guys like Wells, Thomas, Ryan, Rios and Burnett have, for the most part, fucking sucked, at least ownership here has been willing to try to play the big money game— and in the pretty recent past, too.
Of course, I’ll clearly boost their readership by thousands (ahem), but Stoten from Drunk Jays Fans absolutely nails it in his recent post about the absurd comparisons between the Toronto Blue Jays and the defunct Montreal Expos.
I admit, I give the Blue Jays a hard time as a fan with obvious masochist issues. But people need to understand that Toronto is the fourth largest market in Major League Baseball. The Skydome Rogers Centre is in the heart of downtown, owned by the team itself. Remember when the Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 & 1993? Toronto had the highest payroll in baseball for those years. If anything, after 16 years of no playoffs, for the Jays to finally see a noticeable decrease in attendance is quite a feat. If the crowds remain in the 10K region for several consecutive years, then I’ll include a few Odes of the Blue Jays. Until then, how about people calm down and not take the words of people unfamiliar with the situation for face value?
