SIXTEEN INNINGS? o_O

THE GOOD

Lawrie (left), Arencibia, and Vizquel celebrate JP's game-winning HR

 I'm not sure if this is a by-product of the JP Ricciardi era of Blue Jays history, but whenever a game went into extra innings I thought the Jays would find a way to lose that game. In tonight's history making season opener in Cleveland against the Indians, the Blue Jays shut down the Tribe, who roared out of the gate 4-0 after the second inning, and then came back to tie the game in the ninth, take the lead and win in the sixteenth! Credit for game-winning hit goes to Blue Jays catcher JP Arencibia, whose three-run homerun in the last frame put Toronto into the lead to stay ^_^ Something about those uniforms just looks right, don't you agree?

Something I found just as impressive, if not more, is the maturity and focus of Blue Jays starting pitcher Ricky Romero. In the previous two seasons, Romero would cap off poor performances and bad innings with an angry, glove slamming tirade in the dugout. However, after giving up four runs to Cleveland in the second inning, Romero entered the dugout in a calm and measured manner similar to one Roy Halladay of years past ^_^. When the head man or the leader is calm, then the team is calm and ready to tackle the task at hand: Joe Montana did it, Tiger Woods had it, Roy Halladay does it, and now so does Ricky Romero ^_^

THE BAD

I don't know what is worse: The Marlins wasting a solid outing from free agent, Cy Young winner Mark Buehrle, or the ghastly jerseys they wore o_O Everything looks alright on the front, I suppose. The black long sleeve shirt coupled with the alternate black jersey takes your eyes off the giant, multi-coloured "M". However, the back of the jersey is a real piece of work o_O ORANGE NUMBERS?! Considering Johnny Cueto's seven-inning, three hit shutout performance, the colour of the Marlins' numbers is irrelevant when all their numbers are the same: ZERO.

THE UGLY

I would make a reference to Shin-Soo Choo starting a dust up in an otherwise tight, extra-inning affair against the Blue Jays in Cleveland, but unfortunately I still can't take my eyes off that awful thing just off his left shoulder -_- If a baseball team dressed in a similar garb with an African-American equivalent to "Chief Wahoo", the game would be suspended, the public relations director, marketing director, general manager, and all who sowed on those patches would be fired on the spot. #Justsaying