When my partner in crime, Tom, penned his last epistle about our beloved azure corvidae, things were just going great in the Queen City. He mentioned how much he was enjoying the season thus far, and confided that he wasn’t sure how long the Jays could keep it up. The answer – not long. Almost immediately after his missive, the Jays went into a tailspin in which they were swept in three straight series. The hits stopped falling in with runners on, the runners stopped getting on, the sliders weren’t sliding quite right, and before you could say “Touch ‘Em All Joe,” pow! – a 9-game losing streak. The bandwagon almost achieved escape velocity, what with all
the people so suddenly jumping off of it. Folks decried that the Jays were pretenders who fattened up against weak teams but now the real Jays were showing themselves. The truth, though, is that the Jays are neither as fantastic as their April play would have you assume, nor as dismal as they were during that 9-game los...
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