Oct. 9th, 2005

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A couple of years ago the thought suddenly struck me: one of these days, Tom or Jerry will die--and then things will never be the same.

I'm tempted to call it the saddest day in the history of the Blue Jays, and then I think, I've been sadder ... but I'm not sure I've ever actually cried about the Blue Jays. I certainly had tears in my eyes, along with George Bell, after the last out in '87. And I had tears in my eyes this morning. (I wondered, recently, how he was doing, and then I realized he wasn't doing well--nobody had said anything about how he was doing for a long time.)

It may not be the saddest day, but it may well be the unhappiest.

Tom Cheek, it so happens, is the only person who has ever said my name on the radio. For the old IDA Beat the Pros contest. An April game in the early '90s. I got a Polaroid camera for sending in the question. (It was: who struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin ... two or three other Hall of Famers ... consecutively in an All-Star game. The answer, which Jerry Howarth gave promptly, of course, is Carl Hubbell.) He betrayed his Americanness by making the short "i" in my last name into a long "e".

It's a fact about Tom Cheek. And a fact about me. It's a fact about Tom Cheek and me.

High temp today, here: 16. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 7.
High temp today in TO: 15. Dewpoint then: 7. High dewpoint: 8.

There's a Vince--and it's supposed to run into PORTUGAL! What? What?!

And my apologies to Roger Clemens--who, if not for Barry Bonds, would certainly be the most remarkable player in baseball today--who did indeed get hammered in Game 2, but came on in the 15th inning of today's deciding game as a pinch-hitter, threw three shutout innings, and got the win. So, the best I'm doing in the first round is 3/4.

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