Monday, September 10th - Detroit, Michigan
7:05 PM (EDT)
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Toronto Blue Jays Vernon Wells cf Reed Johnson lf Alexis Rios rf Frank Thomas dh Troy Glaus 3b Aaron Hill 2b Greg Zaun c Lyle Overbay 1b John Macdonald ss Pitching: Doc Halladay, RHP |
Tampa Bay Rays Curtis Granderson cf Placido Polanco 2b Gary Sheffield dh Magglio Ordonez rf Carlos Guillen ss Ivan Rodriguez c Timo Perez lf Sean Casey 1b Brandon Inge 3b Pitching: Kenny Rogers, LHP |
The Jays make a quick stopover in the Motor City to take on the Tigers for a one-game and between players slumping, steroid accusations, and a series loss to the Devil Rays, things are not going well for our heroes at the moment.
The Tigers are fighting for their playoff lives and are throwing Kenny Rogers, who had the distinction of being the most mentioned player when teams' blogs each named their 20 least favorite players for their teams of all time. By my count, the Chicken Gambler appeared on Tigers, A's, Twins, Mets, and Skankee blogs. In its own way, that's really quite impressive. I was surprised to see him on the A's blog, where, as far as memory serves, he only pitched one season and played relatively well, but I guess that's just the kind of guy he is.
Doc goes for our heroes. Let's go Jays!
Post title, of course, brought our way by Built to Spill, hailing from the great state of our very own (if only briefly) Chris Latham, who played for the Jays back in 2001. I guess I should've saved this one for when we played the Twins, since Killer, too, is a native Idahoan.