Wednesday Happenings

Here is a picture of Jesse Litsch, the 22-year old Toronto rookie who picked up the win for the Blue Jays tonight in Toronto's game vs. Boston. The win completed the 3 game sweep for the Blue Jays, in which Toronto outscored Boston 16-5. Unfortunately for the Jays, despite the 3 game sweep, New York also completed a 3 game sweeep of Baltimore to mathematically eliminate Toronto from the wild-card chase. Despite Toronto not making the play-offs since Joe Carter's heroics in 1993, there is a bright future for the Jays with young starting pitchers Shaun Marcum, Dustin McGowan and Jesse Litsch accompanying Roy Halladay and A.J. Burnett in the rotation. And getting B.J. Ryan back next season should really help at closer too. Below the picture is what mlb.com had to say about the game. For you Boston fans who may look at this post, I would rather see Boston win the division than New York. Toronto pays a 4 game visit to Yankee Stadium over the long weekend so Boston can hope for another Toronto sweep.

Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 1
Jesse Litsch joined Dustin McGowan and A.J. Burnett as winning pitchers in the Boston series. (Adrian Wyld/AP)
Series at a glance:
Mon. 09/17: TOR 6, BOS 1
Tue. 09/18: TOR 4, BOS 3
Wed. 09/19: TOR 6, BOS 1

While I was at my computer tonight talking on the phone, I was shocked to find the chair I was sitting in collapse to the floor!! My parents have had the chair for well over 20 years and it HAD 2 metal legs. It had been getting fairly wobbly recently, but I never saw this coming. When I had sat down earlier this evening, it had shifted down a couple of inches, so I sat on the opposite side of the chair to put less stress on it. Then while I was talking to my cousin Jeff on the phone, both legs broke off at the same time and I went crashing to the floor, while bashing my left foot and knee!!

It has been an OK week at school, still problems with the students but not as many it doesn't seem. This Friday afternoon I will be headed for Carrie's for the weekend so I should have some good pictures for another post.