Jorn's Jottings
Simmons and Cox have both disappeared, which means no Simmons Says
or Friday Incompletions this week. To help lessen the withdrawl
sypmtoms for those of you who can only digest information in short
half-sentences separated by ellipses, I will attempt to fill the void
with my own lame weekend notebook:
Phillies closer Brett Myers almost came to blows with a reporter earlier this week, but since the reporter wasn't his wife, Myers didn't throw a punch...Phillies GM (and BFF of Toronto's baseball writers) Pat Gillick once again refused to suspend Myers, just like last year when Myers brutally beat his wife on a Boston street corner...Speaking of Gillick's unholy army of asskissers, Grimace is off the Jays beat and appears, for some reason, to be covering the Red Sox and Yankees. Murray Chass and Dan Shaughnessy had better watch out...If Gord Stellick and Bill Watters were able to turn their failed stints in the Leafs front-office into high profile media-gigs, can we expect to see JFJ hosting That's Hockey next season?...If I use a question mark, does that count as one of the periods in an ellipses, or should I still have three?...Shit, another question mark...
I'm not too familiar with the work of Mike Zeisberger, but I must say that having read three of his columns this week, I am really looking forward to trashing his output this season...Speaking of Zeisberger, his column today quotes Grapes giving his pick for steal-of-the-offseason: "[Mark Bell] may have been a throw-in in the Vesa Toskala deal, but he's my type of player. He's big, he can score and he can scrap when needed. He has a lot to prove, too"...Just goes to show that almost killing someone means nothing as long as you are a big Canadian boy...Exclaim magazine is to music what Simmons, Cox and the rest of the crew are to Toronto sports...When Mr. Till and I started this site, we had no idea what a prominent role Richard Griffin would have. The Cox Bloc couldn't exist without him...Brian Berard has accepted an offer to tryout with the Islanders, allowing the club to replace one convicted steroid abuser with another...Isles fans must be about as proud as Phillies fans right now...
...and hey, whatever happened to Bill Brydge?
Phillies closer Brett Myers almost came to blows with a reporter earlier this week, but since the reporter wasn't his wife, Myers didn't throw a punch...Phillies GM (and BFF of Toronto's baseball writers) Pat Gillick once again refused to suspend Myers, just like last year when Myers brutally beat his wife on a Boston street corner...Speaking of Gillick's unholy army of asskissers, Grimace is off the Jays beat and appears, for some reason, to be covering the Red Sox and Yankees. Murray Chass and Dan Shaughnessy had better watch out...If Gord Stellick and Bill Watters were able to turn their failed stints in the Leafs front-office into high profile media-gigs, can we expect to see JFJ hosting That's Hockey next season?...If I use a question mark, does that count as one of the periods in an ellipses, or should I still have three?...Shit, another question mark...
I'm not too familiar with the work of Mike Zeisberger, but I must say that having read three of his columns this week, I am really looking forward to trashing his output this season...Speaking of Zeisberger, his column today quotes Grapes giving his pick for steal-of-the-offseason: "[Mark Bell] may have been a throw-in in the Vesa Toskala deal, but he's my type of player. He's big, he can score and he can scrap when needed. He has a lot to prove, too"...Just goes to show that almost killing someone means nothing as long as you are a big Canadian boy...Exclaim magazine is to music what Simmons, Cox and the rest of the crew are to Toronto sports...When Mr. Till and I started this site, we had no idea what a prominent role Richard Griffin would have. The Cox Bloc couldn't exist without him...Brian Berard has accepted an offer to tryout with the Islanders, allowing the club to replace one convicted steroid abuser with another...Isles fans must be about as proud as Phillies fans right now...
...and hey, whatever happened to Bill Brydge?
