Watching last night's long, drawn out contest made me relieved that we weren't playing Tampa or the Yankees, cause shit could've gotten ugly.

The Beautiful

Travis Snider, with 3 hits, is starting to look more and more like a big league hitter. I hope Cito and his hitting friends are getting through to him. Jose "Joey Bats" Bautista contributed a homerun.

18 quality starts from the Doc-less pitching staff, but I believe that 'quality start' is a bit objective for something as subjective as pitching. But more on that in a tick.

The pitchers call Bruce Walton "Papi", even though he is not their Latino father nor a very large Dominican DH. And none of them (as far as I know) are hot Latina girls featured in hip hop/reggaeton videos, gyrating and yelling "ay Papi!"

The Damned

Ricky!!! Romero was more than a little wild last night. He had 5 strikeouts through 2 innings, and then lost the strike zone, and bounced some pitches, crossed up John Buck and made a throwing error on a snap throw to first. He got a little agitated. It was downright vintage AJ Burnett. Maybe, like Burnett, Molina 2.0 should be Romero's catcher. But I think Buck's presence had more to do with his hot bat than anything else.

Um, press? Can we please stop with the "Doc was so scary" story line? It's a shame the Baby Jays were too scared to approach him about pitching stuff. Don't do it on Doc start days, but he seemed pretty chill on days he wasn't working. And if he and flake master AJ Burnett, who more or less put the moves on him and lived to tell the tale, can become buddies, all of you kids could've approached him, too. Now all I can see are "lonely genius" storylines for Halladay. But he's gone to a better place, where dudes are tasered if they get out of line.