Pleased to Meet Me: Community Census!

The Sandlot! I forgot all about that movie!

Name: Justin
Location: Calgary AB
Favourite Current Jay: Aaron Hill
Favourite All-Time Jay: Joe Carter
Favourite Non-Jay: Evan Longoria
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Saviour, Rise Against
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I: Work at a radio station, run a blog
Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled:

Name: Tyler
Location: St. Catharines Ontario
Favourite Current Jay: Adam Lind
Favourite All-Time Jay: Dave Winfield
Favourite Non-Jay: Doc
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: “Walk” – Pantera
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I: Go to school for Comptia A+ and MCSA. I perform live Hip hop, Produce hip hop beats, manage artists and promote live shows.
Favourite Baseball Movie: The Sandlot
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Mark Grudzielanek (lots of hits not many HR. Steady with the glove)

Name: Mylegacy (Roger Davis)
Location: Beautiful Nanaimo, BC
Favourite Current Jay: Chad Jenkins – going forward. Today – Aaron “definitely not a mole” Hill.
Favourite All-Time Jay: Everyone from 1984 to 1993.
Favourite Non-Jay Player: All-time: The Wiz – Mr.Osborne Earl “Ozzie” Smith – my favorite back flipper this side of Fosbury and his Flop.
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: One area of the game I’ve never given any thought to.
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Retired, scotch drinking (single malt natch), ocean parkway walking, 12 month a year Blue Jay’s fanatic fan. Did I mention Scotch?
Favourite Baseball Movie: Bull Durham – I still wear my wife’s garter under my Lederhosen for every home game. (Please don’t tell her – she’ll want it back.)
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Unfortunately, no Major Leaguer has ever performed poorly enough to be mentioned in the same breath as yours truly.
Most Important Question that can NOW be answered “YES!”: Is it April yet? Play Ball!

Name: James
Location: Toronto/Waterloo/Halifax (long story)
Favourite Current Jay: Adam Lind (it’s been suggested he’s my doppleganger)
Favourite All-Time Jay: Shawn Green
Favourite non-Jay: Tough call, I like many players because of video games and fantasy baseball; probably a tie between Doc and Pujols

Intro Music: Whatever’s hot in the hip-hop scene, so right now “On to the next one” by Jay-Z
When not Bluebird Bantering: Depends on what time of year. Either in school or working. Pretty big gamer (XBox 360) and try to get out to Leafs and Jays games whenever I can.

Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League and Major League 2
Major Leaguer my Little League Career Most Resembled: Rick Ankiel, because I started out as a pitcher and then moved to the outfield

Name: Eitan Hess
Location: Toronto, ON
Favourite Current Jay: mmm…. Scrabble is a favorite.
Favourite All-Time Jay: Raul Mondesi. He was a loon…
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Other than Doc, it must be Kevin Youkilis.. (HA! Got you, Dakers!).
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Vangelis’ “Conquest of Paradise” – got to pay due respect. (I like Hill’s ululation from last year, though…)
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Encouraging my wife to finish her PhD here at U of T so we could go back home (which is far away from Canada)
Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League.
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Is there a major leaguer that never held a baseball in his life? (Now, Tom! You know that Kevin Millar did handle a ball or two! That’s not fair…) No? so no one, I guess. I come from a country where the concept of Baseball is as foreign as the concept of Hockey would be in Africa. (To tell you the truth, the concept of Hockey is even more foreign where I come from…)

Name: Bob
Location: Edmonton for 8 months, Kelowna for 4 months.
Favourite Current Jay: Adam Lind or Aaron Hill
Favourite All-Time Jay: Roy Halladay or Alomar
Favourite non-Jay: Doc for obvious reasons. Pujols because of how good a person he is outside of being the most feared hitter in baseball.

Intro Music: Something loud – chorus from Rammstein’s “Zwitter”, then from “Reise, Reise”. Then something with a good beat – maybe Deadmau5’s “Ghosts ’N Stuff” or Thomas Ulstrup’s “Snap Back”. And, if there’s a 5th plate appearance – Disturbed’s “Haunted”.
When not Bluebird Bantering: School for 8 months. Work all year. Work sometimes as a bylaw officer, other times as a sports league scheduler/organizer at school.

Favourite Baseball Movie: Hmmm. Actually never really watched any baseball movies.
Major Leaguer my Little League Career Most Resembled: Rick Ankiel, because I started out as a pitcher, was pretty wild, so got moved to a position player and couldn’t stop hitting home runs.

Name: Andy
Location: Toronto, ON
Favourite Current Jay: Adam Lind
Favourite All-Time Jay: Roy Halladay or Dave Stieb
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Roy Halladay
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Justice – Waters of Nazareth
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I: Write, walk, hang out with buddies, study
Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: As a catcher, I have bad knees, and have a decent arm. I’m not a very patient hitter but can make contact and I am not a slugger. I’m also a switch hitter. So, I guess… Alan Ashby? I dunno really. I was never really that good.

Name: Andy Mc
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
Favourite Current Jays: Hill, Marcum, Romero, JOBAU!!!
Favourite All-Time Jays: Alomar, Jorge Bell, Olerud
Favourite Non-Jay: Roy Oswalt, Manny (he dissed BOS), Pedro (he dissed NYY)
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: “When the Man Comes Around”, Johnny Cash
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I: Military Analyst, working on PhD, Jeep-ing, Camping, Snowboarding
Favourite Baseball Movie: The Natural
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resemble: Jack Cust (really).

Name: Justin
Location: Toronto, ON
Favourite Current Jay: Romero, Zep, Lind
Favourite All-Time Jay: Alomar, White, Halladay
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Halladay, Rolen, Ichiro
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the bullpen Music: “Pump it Up”, Elvis Costello
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I am: Working, playing video games, doing undisclosed work on the internet
Favourite Baseball Movie: Does BASEketball count?
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Bernie Carbo, I don’t remember any of it.

Name: Benji
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Favourite Current Jay: Travis Snider
Favourite All-Time Jay: Doc
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Ken Griffey Jr.
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the bullpen Music: Reign of the Hammer – Hammerfall
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I am: a student, playing video games, cooking, and playing in a mens baseball league. I was in a teenagers league last year.
Favourite Baseball Movie: Benchwarmers or Major League
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Luis Castillo; I play 2nd, hit singles and drop fly balls.

Name: Jasper Bosman (woodman663 on the i-net)
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
Favourite Current Jay: Marc Rzepczynski
Favourite All-Time Jay: Roy Halladay
Favourite Non-Jay Player: I like Ryan Zimmerman
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the bullpen Music: Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I am: not doing anything useful, that’s for sure.
Favourite Baseball Movie: Haven’t seen any, I think. I like sports and I like movies but I do not like sports movies.
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: we didn’t play baseball, but when we played softball I was a defensive-oriented catcher who never hit for power but sometimes got hits against abysmal defenses and then proceeded to steal base after base because the other catchers were often even more useless than their infielders. Really, even the little league equivalent of Jose Molina doesn’t come close to the horror I was at the plate.

Name: Marc McRae
Location: Oshawa, Ontario
Favourite Current Jay: Aaron Hill
Favourite All-Time Jay: Carlos Delgado
Favourite Non-Jay Player: All-time: Kirby Puckett
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Hells Bells
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Rogers employee in the cellular business
Favourite Baseball Movie: For the love of the game
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Otis Nixon

Name: Patrick McCaw
Location: Toronto
Favourite Current Jay: Cassey Jansen (Jay who’s struggles I’ve been most emotionally invested in atleast)
Favourite All-Time Jay: Alomar
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Chase Utley (too soon to say Doc)
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Paradise by the Dashboard Light — Meat Loaf
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Gameing, reading watching basketball
Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Jamie Campbell (i.e. Tragically non-existant)

Name: Wadcanshuur
Location: Toronto
Favourite Current Jay: Adam Lind
Favourite All-Time Jay: Devo
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Vladimir Guerrero
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Smooth Criminal by M.J.
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Trying to convince my wife to see a Jays game. I also watch a lot of soccer.
Favourite Baseball Movie: Bull Durham
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: I had John Olerud’s sweet swing but never made contact.

Name: Twincest
Location: Vancouver BC
Current Jay: Aaron Hill
All-Time Jay: Tony Fernandez/ Carlos Delgado
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Orlando Hudson/ Roy Halladay
Stepping to the Plate Music:Mamma Said Knock you out, LL Cool J
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Watching the Canucks, Working, University
Favourite Baseball Movie: Mr. 3000 (RIP Bernie Mac)
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: John Macdonald (Great defense, struggled at the plate)

Name: Jabalong
Location: Hong Kong, China
Favourite Current Jay: Having watched only a half dozen games in the past 10 years since leaving Canada, the current players are mostly just names and stats for me – albeit ones I still manage to feel surprisingly strongly about. If I had to pick one, I’d say Aaron Hill.
Favourite All-Time Jay: Anyone and everyone from the 1987 Jays – the team that first broke my heart and who I’ve always loved the most…even more than the World Series-winning teams I saw up close and personal working for the team (first as a “runner” in 1988 and 1989, then in the ticket office from 1990 through 1994).
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Fred McGriff. Okay, this is a bit of a cheat, as he’s really my favourite Jay. He was my first breakout player, who for a short time felt like he was my little secret…well, okay Toronto’s little secret (I remember telling a Phillies fan in 1988 that this kid was going to be one of the best…countered with his love of Ricky Jordan – I came out on top of that one nicely). McGriff went on to play most of his career elsewhere, but always remained my favourite player and now Hall of Fame debate obsession (along with long-suffering Bert Blyleven). Speaking of legendary hurlers, if McGriff doesn’t count as a non-Jay, which he really shouldn’t, then my pick would be Nolan Ryan. Sitting in the Press Box at Exhibition Stadium on April 23rd 1989, watched him nearly no-hit the Jays, quietly rooting for him until Nelson Liriano broke it up with two outs in the ninth.
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the bullpen Music: AC/DC’s Hell’s Bells. Loved it when they played it for George Bell, another personal favourite, and if I was playing I’d want that song as a tip of my cap to him.
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I am: Sleeping in, lounging around, working out and wondering why I’m still in Asia (though not complaining during the six months a year when the weather in Canada barely supports life).
Favourite Baseball Movie: My head says Field of Dreams, but my heart still aches for The Natural and what should have been for Roy Hobbs. And then there’s also the screaming little 1970s kid in me who says The Bad News Bears (and its sequels, sure why not – but probably not the TV show, though it’s all a bit of a haze).
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Any major leaguer who came up for a cup of coffee and never to be heard from thereafter. Let’s just say I was cut from my first T-Ball team with the coach suggesting I try soccer (ouch!). So it began and so it ended. Yet strangely enough, I got a T-Ball trophy…and thus will defend the right of any player with the briefest of appearances during a World Series-winning team’s season to get a ring. Speaking of which, as a part-timer with the Jays I didn’t get a ring, but was pleasantly surprised to be given a World Series gold watch by the team. So pleased in fact that I knocked back a few too many drinks at the SkyDome presentation ceremony and scratched the watch the first time I wore it. Oh well.

Name: FenixL =P
Location: Toronto
FCJ: Snider, Cecil
FJAT: Doc, Delgado
FJNP: Doc =), Fielder
Music: Too Hard to choose, Maybe Eminem Lose Yourself, because its a really good pump up song or Remember The Name by Fort Minor for the same reason
Not BBB: School, Basketball
FavBBMovie: Field of Dreams, Sandlot, Major League
Baseball Career: Never played organized baseball, was a good fielder and runner. Maybe Scutaro lol?

soon to be favourite baseball movie: film adaptation of The Bullpen Gospels

Name: Murray
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Favourite Current: Adam Lind
All Time: George Bell (I have a soft spot for Left fielders with bad gloves) Robbie Alomar
Non-Jay: Doc and Ken Griffey Jr.
Bullpen Music: You’re the Best Around from the Karate Kid Soundtrack
When not Here: I’m on Dawgs By Nature (The Cleveland Browns site)
Movie: Major League
Resemblance: 48 year old Jamie Moyer

Name: -
Location: T-dot
Favourite Current Jay: Johnny Mac
Favourite All-Time Jay: Gustavo Chacin, Brandon League
Favourite Non-Jay: Todd Helton, The Big Hurt.
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: Turn It Out – Death From Above
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I: ski
Favourite Baseball Movie: Major League
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: David Eckstein ):

Name: Craig Zaychkowsky
Location: Calgary AB
Favourite Current Jay: Dirk Hayhurst
Favourite All-Time Jay: Robbie Alomar
Favourite Non-Jay: Jason Bay, Justin Morneau
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the Bullpen Music: The Final Countdown :)
When Not Bluebird Bantering: Banker by day, dog owner by night
Favourite Baseball Movie: Field of Dreams?
Major Leaguer My Little League Career Most Resembled: Jim Abbott batting. (Too soon?)

Impressed to hear someone out there knows Janadroids. Your stock is rising Mr Hugo :)

Name: Ian
Location: Stouffville, Ontario
Favourite Current Jay: Aaron Hill
Favourite All-Time Jay: Dave Stieb or Tom Henke
Favourite Non-Jay Player: Halladay for now. It might have been Vespa but he’s with the Red Sox
Stepping to the Plate/Coming out of the bullpen Music: Mary Had A Little Lamb – Stevie Ray Vaughan
When Not Bluebird Bantering, I am: Working, walking the dog, painting miniature soldiers
Favourite Baseball Movie: Gonna go with Bull Durham
Major Leaguer My Little League Softball Career Most Resembles: Well, I usually catch, I hit opposite way, I’m so slow on the bases I make Benji Molina look like Usain Bolt, and I only ever hit singles (mainly because it takes me forever to get to first). I don’t know who that resembles but I’m pretty sure he did not have a long career.