What's better than a hot pitcher? A hot pitcher with a hot accent.
Found out tonight that my favorite hot-tempered Aussie pitcher will be back to pitch another year for the Rays. (There's gotta be a "Crikey!" joke in there somewhere, but I'm too damn tired to really make it work.) I'm glad to see that Balfour will be back with the Rays again. I actually prefer the Rays to all the other AL East teams. They're not the Sox or the Yankees, which I feel is a point in their favor, they're not the perpetually losing-record Orioles--apologies to my friends who are Orioles fans--and they're not Toronto, which has always been kind of a blah team to me (with the exception of their second baseman, Aaron something-or-other, who happens to be hot) except in 1993, when I hated their fucking guts. So I'm a Rays fan by default when it comes to the AL East, and the fact that they've got three BILFs (Balfour, Burrell, and Longoria) on the team is yet another point in their favor. |
