Saw the game today. Ricky started off a bit rough … 5 or was it 6 balls. Fans were getting nervous but Ricky soon pulled it together. 2 pickoffs on the day was helpful.

Meanwhile, the Jays bats came alive with 3 taters.

Got to experience the roof closing and the indoor fireworks were cool. July 1 Jays home game is a date that should be on all Jays fans calendars.

I unfortunately missed the game today, but I read on yahoo that supposedly Jays fans were booing Wells when he came into the game in the 9th. I just have to say, I thought Jays fans had more class than that. I realize Wells has been struggling this year, and its frustrating to watch, but I’m sure nobody is more frustrated with it than Vernon, and it sure can’t help him having the fans booing him. Sure, we can debate how good or bad his contract signing was all we want, but in the end that is totally irrelevant. What matters is that as fans we continue to show support, its just as bad being fairweather to your team as it is to be fairweather to the players. Its not like Wells has a bad attitude and is making people hate him. We all know he has potential in that bat, but shit happens sometimes. It happens to the best of players sometimes, ie. Ortiz, and also Giles and Kendall, both great career hitters, have both struggled this year offensively. So yeah, its really annoying seeing fans booing their own player just because he’s having a rough time. Don’t start turning into Yankees fans.

from the great Cito. I have to be happy that at least he has the 5 best hitters in the 5 top slots in the order. I would still put Overbay 2nd and move the rest back one spot each, but you can’t have everything. Let’s hope it stays that way for awhile.

I also like batting Bautista 9th. He still has a good OBP because he has walked a lot for the number of at bats he has. The Jays got their first run when he walked and Scutaro doubled him home.

Finally, about Wells. I personally would not boo at the stadium, but he has not hit enough. I really blame Cito for keeping him 3rd or 4th in the order all this time. If Wells had been batting 8th or 9th like he should have been, he would not have been up to bat for all those key situations and failed. And we would have many more runs scored by now.

Everybody’s fave or near-fave beer vendor, famous for his grisly “ice cold beer” announcement, was spotted at the park today, although not in a professional capacity, but just as a fan. Good to see there are no hard feelings.

Too bad we lost a crucial home series 2 games to 1 because we only scored 7 runs. It is simple: if we allow just 8 runs over 3 games, we should even sweep it, frankly! And a home sweep would have been the perfect remedy. Now a huge four-game series in the Bronx comes up, why all day games? I don’t get it but maybe it’s better for me as they all start at 7 pm over here, I can at least follow the scores and hopefully at least one will be on TV (I guess Doc on Saturday). Great effort by Ricky, good offensive day (although I wished we could add more in the third, instead we only got one run). Still, some issues remain offensively. We can discuss them a lot here since there’s the day off Thursday.