Stuff I Found: Home Opener Edition
April 8, 2016
Joanna Cornish
There is about two hours until game time as I write this and you may be wondering what you are going to do to kill the time. Interspersed are what I think the Jays should use as walk up songs.
Here is what I think Kevin Pillar's should be. It sounds like about seven Zeppelin songs combined and it wails.
On a recent morning, Guerrero hit one over the trees behind the left-field fence of the Jays' northeastern practice field. Beyond the fence lies a softball diamond used by local recreational teams. Had there been a softball game in progress, the centre fielder might have been able to catch Guerrero's blast.
Josh Donaldson left Phil Collins this year and for a Future track. In my opinion, the wrong Future track.
For Jose Bautista, mostly because it would be funny.
The piece itself is not nearly as bad as the headline suggests. And did also drop this little nugget of info: that Stroman has breathing exercises to help keep his emotions in check on the mound. It also ends with a very mature solution.
The Red Sox have a lot of control over how they perform at the plate. What they cannot control is how Stroman acts on the mound when he gets people out, and one can presume he will have at least a handful of putouts Friday night, barring a Blue Jays disaster. It’s important for the Red Sox not to react like Logan Morrison and, instead of worrying about the next fist-pump, focus on the next at-bat.
For Edwin, I love that he uses Latin music for the most part. I don't know enough Latin music for something as bad ass as he is.
I've always been in love with the drive of this track. The guitar and background vocals. It's a stadium song. Say what you want to about Kanye West, but he can produce the heck out of a track. So Edwin can have it.
(Question) I covered baseball for years, and I can attest that the black players, as their numbers dwindled, many became more afraid to speak out.
Yeah exactly like the struggles of Roberto Clemente fought against of being black and also being—well, eventually he was bilingual—but being black and also being Latino. [There] were maddening gaps between trying to figure out how you lived here and how you accepted it. And then [he] couldn’t even pick up on the racism and its detail. [He could] just pick up on some of the overt racist things that a lot of people were oblivious to. It was a language gap and a cultural gap. So Roberto Clemente would say, “If you speak Espanol, we’re in this together. Let’s stick together to understand how we’re going to survive together.” And that solidarity led to the total dominance of the Latino ballplayer in the major leagues now.
[Meanwhile African-Americans have] drifted off to more individual team games such as basketball, and maybe what they call a quicker, more turbulent game such as football. [Laughs.] There are a lot of cats playing football, but in football you’re not doing a real long career.
Tulo is a little tricky. I like Aloe Blacc, though not the song Tulo uses. He needs something with a big ass on it and a bit of swag. This, maybe?
After the video, the lights come back on and the camera pans to us up in the box. So we’re on the jumbotron, and the whole building goes nuts. Everybody’s clapping, cheering — the crowd just lost it.
Then the puck drops, and the whole arena breaks out in a chant.
Let’s go, Blue Jays!
Let’s go, Blue Jays!
I got chills.
We had a Blue Jays chant going … in a hockey arena … in Canada.
That’s baseball city status.
I think Mike Saunders needs something with a bit of wail. And this has it.
Guess what, Chris Colabello? Your song rocks.
Russell, yours is fantastic, too. It's crude as a as all heck, but the beat on it is siiiiiiiiiiiiick. So it stays.
Ryan Goins understands that Hov is built for stadiums.