Back from our week away. Huatulco, Mexico, is a nice area. Not over-developed yet (they are working at it, though). The people in the resorts are largely Canadian (it is hard to fly there from the States, but WestJet has direct flights from many cities). Still, a big topic of conversation was the US election.
We mostly stayed at the resort, ate and drank too much. We did take an outing to a cemetery for the Day of the Dead. It is a really nice idea, a day (really a week) for people to think about,
talk about, loved ones who have passed. People dress up and dress up the grave sites. I talked for a couple of minutes to a fellow whose young son was buried there, and he seemed happy to have the chance to talk about him. I want to borrow the idea to have a day here to talk about friends and family who are gone.
They have tennis courts, but I only played once. 32 degrees for a guy with extremely white skin, is too much for any sort of physical activity.
Anyway, I stayed nicely away from any Jays news, not that there was much. And, though I brought my computer, I only turned it on once, because my wife wanted to look up something.
- Of course I saw the Anthony Santander comments. My personal feeling is that if you are being paid more money than God, and you have had 34 hits over two seasons, don’t say anything that gets your employer paying lawyers to search through your contract to see if it can be voided for stupidity. I’m being paid far less than God, and I’m sure if I posted something as dumb as he did, SB would fire me (very rightfully) in ten seconds.
- If it were up to me, I’d likely release Anthony now and eat the money. But I’d imagine the team will see how spring training goes.
- I did see a comment saying we should bring in Shari Lewis law. Everyone has to wear a sock puppet and sing that annoying song on and on. That I’m all for.
- A question for the Jays is: Do they give the players any media training? Could they maybe do a better job of it?
- No Jays players won a Gold Glove (I figured Vlad would), but we won the Team Gold Glove, which, around midseason, I would have said had no chance. But looking at the numbers, it does seem earned. This is the third time the Jays have won this award.
- Lazaro Estrada was signed to a minor league deal. Also Adrian Pinto, Hedbert Perez, Josh Stephan, Geovanny Planchart and Alexis Hernandez have been signed to minor league deals.
- Jake Bloss has been given another option year. Sometimes players get an extra option year if they use all three in their first five seasons of professional ball.
- Tonight we learn who the Rookie of the Year is in each league. Tomorrow Manager of the Year.
