Blue Jays home opener tonight. I am really excited but the friend I was going with just bailed on me to kill my buzz slightly. Looks like it'll be my first solo Jays game. The 5-1 start is amazing but I think it's a bit misleading. We are still sucking hard with RISP and we can't expect to keep knocking out the long ball and picking up walks/errors. Our pitching is looking good so far, especially the BP. Casey Janssen has picked up 3 wins in 3 appearances.

So the Jays we were all expecting to see this season finally showed up last night.

11-1 loss and Brandon Morrow looking like I could get a hit from him. Valdez and Accardo gave Jesse Carlsson good reason to have his bag packed in AAA. Credit to the White Sox pitcher, who 'did a Ricky' on us last night.

With Brett Wallace raking at the plate in AAA, No-more-stache's monopoly of 1B may come to and end soon. I hope so. My reason for cutting him some slack disappeared with his Fu Manchu.

I predict a tied series with the Jays winning tonight.

Yay! I got something right

Jays have signed OF Fred Lewis from the Giants for cash or a PTBNL. Jeremy Reed's spell last 4 days as he's sent back to AAA Vegas. It's looking like this is a move to strengthen the bench. I wonder if the PTBNL will end up being Accardo, who came to the Jays from the Giants.

Wanted to go tonight to watch Marcum pitch but I'd have to go on my own again and doing that twice in one week makes me feel like a complete saddo. Looks like his next home start will be against the Red Sox so that'll do for me.

WHo is this Eveland who has started so well.

We picked him up from Oakland in February. He had an amazing spring, got to see him pitch and was very impressed. He made the rotation due to a last minute injury to Rzepczynski. He said he intends to change his aproach with each new game so that even if the opposition watch tapes of his last games, they still wont know what to expect as it'll be diferent every time. So far he's done that and it's working. Him and Gonzalez have both been excellent pick-ups by the new GM.

Rays beat the White Sox 12-0

We've got the Rays next. Historically we suck against them and given the way they're playing right now I wouldn't be surprised to see us swept. That said, we've got Cecil, Romero & Morrow coming up in our rotation. Cecil was excellent in the spring and continued that form in AAA (he should have started the season with the Jays but Cito went with Tallet). Romero has been our best starter this season and if he'd had any run support he'd be on 3 wins right now. 3 top quality starts including taking a no hitter into 8. Morrow is a question mark but his last outting was great and he seemed to have fixed whatever wasn't working his first 2 starts. If we stick mostly with Camp, Janssen and Gregg from the BP, our pitching will give us every chance. Then it's down to the bats, but I expect them to struggle against some excellent pitching from the Rays, especially Garza and Niemann. Providing our starters do what I know they can I reckon it'll be a low scoring series.

Hill shouold be back Friday for the Jays, which is a massive boost.

Does anyone have MLB.TV?
Is it worth getting and how do i go about getting it?

So amazingly we got to Garza on Friday and then just as amazingly our great BP shat the bed on Saturday. Poor Ricky-Ro is getting the type of run/BP support that Halladay used to get. Today should be interesting.

Don't have mlb.tv - not really worth it since I'm blacked out for all Jays games. Most of them are on the telly anyway. I've heard good things about it though. Just go to mlb.com and follow the links from there.

Two notable accomplishments from yesterdays game. Firstly, David Price threw his first major league shutout. Great effort from a very talented young pitcher. Our bats didn't have a clue. Secondly, Jose Molina threw out 4 from 4 base stealers, including Carl Crawford twice! It was pretty amazing to watch. He's now caught 7 from 8 so far this season. No doubt the Red Sox will be after him

Speaking of which, we start a 3 game home stand with them tonight and to be honest I haven't got a clue what to expect from either side.

Yes. I've had it last couple of years. Great quality picture and you can watch games a day later in their entirity.

Any national league teams want Javier Vasquez?

OK, so I didn't expect that! What a display of diabolical pitching. Deary me.

On the brightside, we sent down Accardo and DFA'd Valdez from our BP, bringing up Josh Roenicke and Rommie Lewis from AAA Vegas. Roenicke has been nails in AAA and Lewis gets the call because he's a lefty. I doubt we'll see Accardo in a Jays uniform again.

More madness tonight? I can't wait to find out!

Much better pitching last night but another 1 run defeat racked up. I have no idea why Randy Ruiz is even in the 25 because we've had 2 blindingly obvious pinch hit scenarios in the past few games and he hasn't been brought in for either. But Cito doesn't like to bring in 'Rookies' to pinch hit for veterans because he sees it as insulting to them. WTF? Also, why persist with Buck behind the plate when he's hitting no better than Molina and Molina is the much better catching option? Whilst I am enjoying watching our young starters pitch very well (for the most part) and the resurgence of V-Dub, right now I cannot help but look forward to the end of the season because it will also be the end of Cito-Ball.

I shall be at the Dome tonight cheering on Brett Cecil as we try and avoid the sweep. I think the Red Sox owe us a big 'thank you' for finally getting their season going.

I'm really hoping that the Oakland pitchers can't throw heat, otherwise we're screwed for the next 4 games.