Blue Jays take Series in Baltimore: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Skipping



There is history to this:




Behold:




I didn't realize that O'Day had skipped off the mound in their first encounter and Bautista's completely awesome skipping homer trot, after O'Day had thrown behind him earlier in the at bat, was a reference to that. So let's just think about that.

Jose Bautista revenge skipped.

In your face, sucker- skipped.

Who is the man now?- skipped.

Lo que va, viene-skipped.

The celebration which began with the skipping and ended in the dugout, where Devon Travis almost got trampled, only to be saved by DeMarlo Hale.



“I know he’s not going to blow 87 miles an hour by me, so I figured he was probably going to try to throw more offspeed pitches after moving my feet a little bit with that fastball,” Bautista said. “I basically said to myself I’m looking for offspeed. If he throws me a fastball I’m going to go back to the dugout if it’s a strike. I sat on a slider, and he threw it, and luckily for me he threw it right down the middle.”
If the continuation of this beef or whatever means Bautista goes large every time he faces O'Day, I'm ok with that. Skip on, my friend.

My hate for the Orioles is strong. I don't quite know where it began, exactly, but I know I grit my teeth every time someone calls Buck Showalter a genius- the other day, Curt Schilling said Showalter wins five extra games no other team can get, he's that good a manager. These words were words that were actually said.

I remember being annoyed that Brett Lawrie was always being compared to Manny Machado, not because Machado is a better player but because he was supposedly so much more mature, even though he's about three years younger. Well, not so much.

He made "You tagged me too hard" a thing.


You can say a lot of things about Brett Lawrie, but he never threw at bat at someone. Yes, I realize he bounced a helmet. My point is Machado is a more than a bit of a dink.


Finally, here is the documentary about Dalton Pompey Sportsnet aired over the weekend. He's pretty great.