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Toronto week
It has been a while since the last “travel week” has appeared on this blog. For this week I’ll bring you along on my trip to Toronto in August of 2007. Since MLB spring training is now well underway, we’ll start things off with some pictures from a Blue Jays-Orioles game I went to.
The above picture was were Frank Thomas stood at the beginning of the day, 508 home runs.
Up walks the Big Hurt to the plate and he promptly connects with one for my camera. (Thanks Frank!)
After circling the bases his home run count must be updated.
Will Frank be back this season? It doesn’t look promising. He will likely retire with 521 home runs. Back in the early to mid-1990s it seemed like he would be the greatest hitter ever. He would hit around .350, walk over a hundred times, and hit about 40 home runs year in and year out. Injuries and prolonged slumps took their toll after those seven or eight glory years. His career totals aren’t as spectacular as they were projected to be after the 1997 season, but he still had a few amazing years every now and again in the past decade. I’m glad he saved one for 2006 when he played for my A’s.
Matt Stairs
As mentioned a couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Blue Jays game in Toronto last summer. The above photo is of two former Oakland A’s players (as the A’s have been “my team” since the 70s).
Miguel Tejada and Matt Stairs are shown here in different uniforms talking about their old glory days in Oakland. Stairs had just hit a double and Tejada was playing short. Had Tejada pulled a hidden ball trick he could have tagged Stairs out!
Fast forward to this season and Matt Stairs finds himself on the Phillies. Last night he crushed a ball in Los Angeles for a two run homer to give the Phillies a 3 games to 1 lead over the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
Toronto
Once we are back in Japan next year you can count on daily entries dealing with only Japanese things. Until then, however, I will mix in some other travel pictures and stories (as I already have with Denmark, Paris, Chicago, Norway, Sweden, etc.)
Today’s travel adventure happened last September. I flew to Toronto on a red-eye flight. This made for a spectacular scene from the air as my plane approached the airport with the sun having just risen. I had a great time in Toronto, catching a Blue Jays game, seeing Rush at the Air Canada Centre, and adventuring around town.
My real reason for being in Canada was to teach in Windsor. I drove to Windsor under terrific conditions. The Ontario countryside was beautiful and relaxing.
Anyway, I’ll see what else I can share with you from my Canadian experiences on later dates.