5-1

We are officially 1/27th of the way through the 2009 season, which might be a bit early to get excited about this team, but I'm not sure I can help myself. Holy goddamn, this is great. Like, really friggingly amazingly awesome.

Yes, BJ is off to a rocky start. But I think BJ's earned some patience. The Jays are in the enviable position of having a few fallback plans, but for now I think Ryan's best hope (heh) is to work things out on the mound in Toronto (or wherever Toronto's playing -- you know what I mean) and not in some backwater minor league town.

As a side note, wouldn't it be awesome if BJ and Brian Tallet hooked up to star in a buddy comedy (called BJ and The Bear, obvs.) about a pair of bullpen mates who got into crazy adventures? Can somebody less lazy than me please photoshop that? Here are the ingredients:

(Couldn't find one with the extravagant 'tache BT's currently sporting -- mind photoshopping that, too? Thanks in advance.)

Counting Our Blessings

First of all, that game was beautiful. Shame we couldn't watch it, Sportsnet, but at least we could listen (more on that in a minute). Purcey did about as much as you could ask (short of controlling a pair of nutty throws), and yes, I have accepted Scott Rolen as my personal Lord and Savior, with Aaron Hill as his favoured apostle.

Ryan? Well, "one bad pitch" (to Brandon Inge?) is what they're saying about BJ's performance. Er, we'll see.

But now, the reason for that image above... we're lucky to have Alan Ashby. I caught him briefly on The Fan with McCown yesterday, casually deferring the oportunity to offer a win total prediction for the Jays, and they man is all class, in addition to knowing his shit. I use the hell out of the MLB Gameday Audio, listening to games from all over the place -- Chicago, Seattle, Cincinnati, Cleveland, wherever -- and I have to say that in Jerry and Alan we've got about the best radio team in the game. Just a pleasure to listen to.

I Am the Resurrection

Hallelujah.

BJ's back.

(But is he back? We'll see.)