The Jays won 6-4 in Tampa last night to open up the weirdly truncated 60 games MLB season.
Ryu Was terrific through 5. He doesn’t throw smoke but he was pinpoint. Maddux ‘light’ if you will…and I will.
Things Ryu 💙 to see:
Hyun Jin’s first #BlueJays strikeout! pic.twitter.com/doPR3Lp9Kw
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 24, 2020
Cavan Biggio did everything. Bunt single in the 4th lead to the first run of the game followed by this three-run jack in the 5th to put the Jays up for good.
A Cavan CRUSH 😤@doinitBIGgio23 has our first 💣 of 2020! pic.twitter.com/YwWm7ttp84
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 25, 2020
Jordan Romano from Markham, Ontario is going to be a pimp.
Congratulations to Markham’s @Gordondemand on his first career MLB WIN! 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/4IjKCfnoPt
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 25, 2020
Vlad and Bichette chipped in with a couple of hits and runs.
Ken Giles is a bad man.
But none of that mattered to me yesterday.
What really yanked my baseball bat was listening to Buck Martinez and Dan Shulman call a baseball game again.
I streamed about 5 ball games yesterday and listened to the Tampa Broadcast for a while and I don’t think we realize how fucking lucky we are to have two of the world’s best baseball broadcasters calling ALL our games.
Watched the Tampa Bay stream, went around the league and we have no idea how lucky we are to have the biggest swinging dicks in the broadcasting factory doing Jays games.
— Dean Blundell (@ItsDeanBlundell) July 25, 2020
Dan Shulman And Buck Martinez are the gold-standard of MLB play by play. Dan and Buck started together in 95 and were the soundtrack to the Blue Jays games during some of the worst stretches of Blue Jays baseball yet they made everything watchable. Dan’s smooth delivery and analytical brilliance along with Buck’s understanding of the game, sense of humor, and smokey laugh were music to my ears.
Dan’s, OK. He left for ESPN in 01, where he called Barry Bond’s 754th Homerun, a bunch of All-Star Games, Announced Osama Bin Laden had been murdered during a Met’s/Phillies game in 2011, the same year he was named National Sportscaster of The Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Not bad.
Buck’s ‘OK’ too.
He made the greatest double play in Blue Jays history with a broken leg (in 2 places) before getting into broadcasting where he really flourished.
He Moonlighted at ESPN for games starting in 95 where he won a sports Emmy for his call of Call Ripkin Jr’s record-breaking 2131 consecutive game (the only record in Baseball that will never be broken, btw). No big deal.
He managed the team for a couple of disastrous seasons in 2001-2002, left to do color for the Orioles in 2003 and did some other patchwork until coming back to Toronto in 2010. Buck worked with Pat Tabler and Jamie Campbell until being reunited with Dan after the Blue Jays run in 2015. Nothing against Jamie or Pat but come on, It’s Fucking ‘Dan Shulman’.
Dan got divorced, remarried in 2017 leaving Sunday Night Baseball permanently to be close to home and I don’t think anyone was happier about it than me.
I got to speak to dan the day of the announcement and he was happier than Buck and I was happier than both of them.
Dan and Buck go back 25 years and you can hear it. They’re complimentary, paint huge bright pictures and it’s fucking effortless. Free and easy conversations flowing from player and team splits, to resetting the table they never step on each other or fail to make any game worth watching and listening too.
They’ll go from giving graphic individual player backstories and different pitching deliveries then make a hard right into how to properly sanitize baseballs during the pandemic without missing a pitch.
And it sounds like home.
They’re working out of a studio during the pandemic like every other MLB broadcast team and you can’t tell the difference. They’re pros. Listen to any other broadcast and I defy you to tell me the Sportsnet broadcast isn’t the most seamless.
Ready. Set. Action. pic.twitter.com/mAGgg1bjIc
— Dan Shulman (@DShulman_ESPN) July 24, 2020
That’s because of Dan and Buck. The biggest swinging dicks in the sports broadcasting factory are Blue Jays and that alone will make the 2020 Blue Jays season worth watching.
Watched the Tampa Bay stream, went around the league and we have no idea how lucky we are to have the biggest swinging dicks in the broadcasting factory doing Jays games.
— Dean Blundell (@ItsDeanBlundell) July 25, 2020
*Jays just tied it 1-1 thanks to public masturbator Reece Mcguire’s solo shot in the 7th, btw. Good for him.
Get up ball, get up ball aaaand gone❗️⚾️
Reese McGuire ties up the ballgame with his first 💣 of the season.#BlueJaysOnSN pic.twitter.com/mcNZtnacRN
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) July 25, 2020
I know masturbation is fun but each win this year is worth three wins so I appreciate that, Resse.
