How good is Robinson Cano? 407 and 8 homers? Could have the best April in Yankees history.

Who? I'm still loving a .500 April for the Reds. Great stuff and a three game winning streak going into tonight's series against the Cardinals. Come on the Reds! They should employ me as a cheerleader.

Pretty prodicutive series for the Jays as they take 3 from 4 against Oakland. John Buck shut the fans up by hitting 3 homers on Thursday night and backing it up with 3 doubles yesterday. Alex Gone-zalez continues to impress with the bat too, with 8 HRs he's already matched his total for 2009.

The YTD batting stats for us are just messed up. Tied for 1st in the majors for HRs (3icon_cool.gif and doubles (71), 2nd in total bases (397), 2nd in strikeouts (222) and 29th in BA (0.233). So much for playing small ball this year. I believe our philosophy at the plate is "Let it rip".

Road trip to Cleveland, Chicago and Boston up next. I'm sure Boston will be happy to see us again, we maybe not Beckett.

Brett Cecil was lights out.

Asbolutely. Saw him pitch in the spring against Phillie and he was looking great. He really should have started the season with the Jays but the manager in his wisdom wanted Tallet in the rotation because of his age/experience (which as a starter isn't that much). Cecil was killing it in AAA so I was kind of happy about Tallet picking up a minor injury. Most likely he'll go to the pen when he's off the DL and Brett will keep his place in the rotation.

Blue Jays currently leading the majors in HRs. And to think I scoffed at the manager when he said pre-season that we had at least 7 players capable of 20 HR seasons. Seriously though, who expected players like Buck, Bautista and Gonzalez to hit like this?

Going for the sweep in Cleveland as I type.

Red Sox vs Yankees starts again tonight

Beckett has had a tough start with a 6+ ERA so it should be interesting to see how the Yanks take him on
Buchholz has had a good start with plenty of K's so him vs CC should be a good game like.
Lester vs Burnett is the best looking game i think.

Can't wait to watch these games having missed the first few at the start of the season.

I'll be watching the Jays-ChiSox game tonight, hoping that Marcum picks up win number 2. Will have the Yankees-Redsox on the laptop so I can keep an eye on it. I predict that despite starting an hour later, our game will still finish before yours does

Rays keep on rolling beating Oakland 4-1

Ouch!

Jays win in extra innings. We're 2nd in come from behind wins - WTF?

Another 2 HRs for John Buck and the game winer from Alex Gonzalez, who now has more HRs than he got the whole of last season. Jays jave won 6 straight, 5 on the road. We're all a bit baffled in Jaysland but we'll take it while it lasts. If last season is anything to go by, we should be imploading some time next week.

Another painful outting from Beckett I see. Hope he keeps that up for us next week. Maybe this time we'll out hit the Red Sox. Looks like he'll be up against Marcum, so that's definitely in our favour.

Red Sox....

No Beckett today. We're getting the fooking knuckleballer. My only hope of a win in Boston just went out the window Last year that barstard Wakefield messed up our hitters so badly we went on a 9 game slump. Here we go again!

...and don't get me started on our series against the Phillies getting moved to Philadelphia because of the G20 summit, taking away the Doc homecoming anfd pretty much the only game Jays fans had to look forward to this year. Apparently the organisation feels that it would be difficult for fans to get to the game due to all the security measures. So taking it to Philly makes it easier for fans to get to? FFS! Nothing to do with the extra security cost to the organisation or the fact that they can now hire out the RC for G20 activities for a shedload of cash while still picking up a share of the huge gates from Philadelphia. They must think that Jays fans are fecking stupid.

Not saying anything me about the Reds. Cueto's one hitter last night was the first in a decade I think. Big stat for you here, the Reds are leading the NL with runners in scoring position with two outs on the board. Last year we couldn't bat them in with 0 outs so big change there. Very exciting season so far for us Reds fans.

Wow - got out of Boston with a win thanks to some fantastic pitching from Marcum and to Lunchbox for figuring out how to hit a knuckleball. Oh, and apparently a dodgy thrid strike call on Big Papi. It was pretty much the only call we got in the 3 game series so boo-fooking-hoo Red Sox Nation.

Back home now to take on the Rangers and the Twins. Going to the game on Saturday, so hope to see RickyRo in good form on the mound for the Jays.

Break out the brooms! We swept another team. On Friday we out-hit the Rangers in a 16-10 slugfest. On Saturday we out-pitched them, with Ricky-Ro getting his first complete game shut out - was a pleasure to watch that one in person. Then yesterday after a shakey start, Brandon Morrow got his together and the Jays bats continued to give the starting pitchers some run support, despite getting little production from the 2-3 spots. In fact, 10 of the 11 runs scored Sat/Sun were batted in from 6,7 & 8 in the batting order.