NEW LOOK SKYDOME

Baseball Briefly

I saw a double-header today,
the first one, Jays vs. Yanks,
and the night cap, the M's vs. A's.
Only the 7 o'clock game in the east starts at 8 AM in the Far East.

When there's a Yankee game from Toronto,
I can hear the audio of YES Network, not Rodgers Sportsnet.
Bobby Murcer and Ken Singleton did the game today.
Both of them do gentlemanly play-by-play.

Skydome
(I refuse to call it by the new name
because they raised the cable fee too often while I had it)

First of all,
I wonder if the new out-of-town scoreboards on the
OF fence don't bother hitters in the box.
They look bright, almost dayglo, green on TV.
I couldn't see A-Rod's double hit the scoreboard or not in the second inning.
And the color of the artifitial grass looks uneven
but it has better cushion than the carpet they had before, I guess.

As for the BlueJays,
pitching still seems to be their weeker side, but not too bad actually.
They are certainly better than last year, I hope.
Doc Halladay and Gustavo Chacin both have three wins already.

The new addition, the Pride of Anola, Manitoba,
and a former resident of White Rock, BC,
Corey Koskie isn't hitting as much as I expected.
He had a game-winning hit against Boston yesterday.
Maybe he's a slow starter.
Vernon Wells is not doing much either
(maybe without Delgado, he doesn't get many good pitches to hit),
but the rest of the line-up aren't so bad.
They don't have much speed and pop in the line-up,
but if Hillenbrand and Hinske continue to drive in runs
they will be fine.