cant wait for the home opener!!! gonna try and get off work early and head over to East Side Mario's for some beers and then . . . .

PLAY BALL!!!!!

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict sport? hardly. other than the pitcher and the catcher who play catch all day, noone really does any physical activity. they all just stand around and every 10 minutes or so one of the 20 guys on the field catches a ball. oh and every 10 minutes or so the batter has to run about 10 feet.WOW easy there wouldn't want to break a sweat! there is more physical activity in golf than in baseball.

lol..


open up your eyes. Every man on the field is moving every pitch. Every person is moving on every hit.. It's quite physical. I also believe you meant to say 9 players on the field instead of 20. i'd like to see you run 90 feet in less than 3 seconds. The game is also mentally exhausting. You have to be thinking 2 steps ahead at all times, every scenario that could happen. Is it an outside or inside pitch, am i looking for a fly ball, ground ball or line drive, if it's not to me, where am i supposed to cover.. Who is my cut-off man. Is he gonna pull the ball or go natural with it. These decisions have to be made with every pitch. I doubt you have that much mental stamina.

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Originally posted by TO guy Picked up my seasons tickets last week, I am soooo pumped for this Jays season.

got my jays season pass from the star, 82 games for $99, cant wait for monday, nice to see them win yesturday in extras too

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Originally posted by Platipus I doubt you have that much mental stamina.

are you calling me stupid?

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Originally posted by teufel-man got my jays season pass from the star, 82 games for $99, cant wait for monday, nice to see them win yesturday in extras too

kindly explain the deal w/ links plz

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This is the deal I grabbed too

https://secure.mlb.com/tor/ticketin...n_pass_form.jsp

Josh gets as excited for Baseball as I get for Tennis.

I love it.

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Originally posted by TO guy This is the deal I grabbed too https://secure.mlb.com/tor/ticketin...n_pass_form.jsp

THANKS!

I'm looking at this really seriously...

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Originally posted by Abercrombie THANKS! I'm looking at this really seriously...

Hell ya guy. For $100, you don't need to make it out to too many games to make it worth it. I'll try to hit up about 50

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar Josh gets as excited for Baseball as I get for Tennis. I love it.

It helped bring 1-2-3 jump to life..

I am excited for the 15th.. draft beer makes baseball fun.

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Originally posted by She_Fitz It helped bring 1-2-3 jump to life.. I am excited for the 15th.. draft beer makes baseball fun.

Tennis TOO Shelly!!

I love getting smashed at the Rexall Centre at York! Thats def part of the tennis going experience

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They just pulled gthe plug on Frank Thomas' commercial.

From the Globe and Mail today:

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Swing and a miss for Blue Jays' commercial ROBERT MACLEOD From Wednesday's Globe and Mail DETROIT — Frank Thomas's prodigious talents hitting home runs throughout his illustrious 17-year Major League Baseball career have been well celebrated. However, the sight of Mr. Thomas, nicknamed the Big Hurt, swinging a pillow at a child in a commercial for the Toronto Blue Jays is not being as well received, at least by officials who regulate advertising on Canadian private television. To win approval for unrestricted airing of its commercial, the American League club had to revise the original 30-second spot, which features a carefree Mr. Thomas in a pillow fight with a couple of young boys who are hopping on a bed. "I think we are taking ourselves a little too seriously if we're saying a pillow fight cannot air because it's viewed as too aggressive, or Frank's too big versus a small child," said Laurel Lindsay, vice-president of marketing for the Blue Jays. "It's ridiculous. I can't shrink Frank and nor would I try to make the child grow. That's sort of the life of the [commercial], seeing the two interact. It was disappointing for sure. Surprising, I think, would be the ultimate word." The Jays opened their 2007 season on Monday, defeating the Tigers 5-3 in the first of three games in Detroit. Mr. Thomas, a designated hitter, is one of the club's new additions and a bona fide star. A former U.S. college football player who stands 6 foot 5 and weighs 275 pounds, he is one of baseball's top home-run hitters with 487 in his career. In the original version of the 30-second commercial, one of a series promoting the start of the Blue Jays' new season, a smiling Mr. Thomas enters a bedroom where a couple of boys are jumping on a bed and engaging in a pillow fight. "Hey, you guys are supposed to be in bed," he says. One of the boys then hits him with a pillow. "Oh yeah?" Mr. Thomas responds, grabbing the pillow and striking the child with a mighty baseball-like swing. Feathers fly, and the child rockets backward off the bed and can be heard thudding to the floor. The commercial cuts to a smiling Mr. Thomas trotting out of the room as he would around the base paths after hitting a home run. The fallen child pops his head up and proclaims, "Wow." The Blue Jays and Publicis Toronto, the company that came up with the ad, felt the spot was innocuous. However, the Television Bureau of Canada, the watchdog that approves TV commercials for private broadcasters, thought otherwise. TBC refused to approve the commercial until the part showing the child being knocked to the floor was edited out. The CBC, however, is able to broadcast the original version of the commercial and is doing so. As a public broadcaster, the CBC has its own rules for determining suitable commercial content and it was satisfied the ad met its standards. There have been reports that the unedited version of the commercial had appeared Monday on Rogers Sportsnet, a private broadcaster. Jim Patterson, the president and chief executive officer of the TBC, refused to comment Tuesday when asked what concerns his organization had with the Thomas ad. "I'm not at liberty to talk about that," he said. "That's between us and the advertiser, quite frankly. It would be totally inappropriate to discuss in the media what discussions we had with the advertiser. "It's their commercial and ultimately this spot got approved and as far as I know it's on air." On the TBC's website, there are several guidelines for advertisers to gain approval for their commercials. Advertisers are cautioned that "it is imperative to keep the best interests of young children and youth in mind when producing commercials. Because children and youth are very impressionable, commercials should not contain any visual or audio portrayals which are detrimental to their well-being." The TBC's website goes on to state that acts of violence, "even comedic violence," can be found to be excessive when included in commercials. "Their issue was family violence, which we think is a ridiculous claim," said Tony Ciccia, vice-president and brand director for Publicis. "The Jays are a family-friendly organization to say the least. From our perspective, we did a funny spot that really shows the guys want to win. The children were actors and all the appropriate measures were taken to make sure everybody was safe." The TBC also refused to approve another of the Jays' commercials, this one featuring pitcher A.J. Burnett, until the word "dramatization" was added to the spot. In the commercial, Mr. Burnett is late putting out the household garbage, arriving outside his home in a white bathrobe just as the garbage truck is pulling away. Mr. Burnett's response is to pitch the small bag of garbage he is clutching and it falls into the back of the truck after skimming the head of one of the sanitation workers. Mr. Thomas, who has three children, said he was shocked by the reaction to his ad. "When we were doing the ad, I said we better keep some smiles in here and make it really lighthearted because people are going to take it the wrong way with me smacking a kid with a pillow like that," he said. "I just don't want people to think I'm a violent-type guy because I'm not. I'm a fun-loving guy." The shoot for the commercials took place during spring training last month in Florida. "They actually had a guy in there bigger than me swatting the kids getting them ready to be hit by me with the pillow," Mr. Thomas recalled. "It was a big guy and I was like, 'Wow.' "But I just swung a few times and everybody had fun."

Here's the commercial;

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