TGIF!
The weekend is here!
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JAY BLUES
It seems to be the same thing every year. By September the Blue Jays are out of the playoff race and are playing for nothing.
However, while I usually turn my back on the Jays around this time of year I have been watching a lot of baseball lately.
The reason? They are playing good ball and have a lot of young exciting players right now.
Case in point - Travis Snider.
In his four games since being called up on Aug 28th he's batting 7 for 15 with a homerun, double, four runs scored and two RBI's. He played a big role in the Jays last two wins over Minnesota.
What's both good and bad about baseball and all sports is that there's always next year.
As frustrating as it is to cheer for a team that can never seem to make the playoffs - I am excited about the Jays in 2009.
We'll see what happens.
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ELEPHANT IN REHAB (and I'm not talking about Britney)
Here's a very odd and sad story I found the wire this morn...
An elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home after a three-year rehab program, state media said today. Xiguang, a 4-year-old male Asian elephant, became addicted after he was captured by smugglers along the Chinese-Myanmar border in March 2005. The traders fed the elephant bananas laced with heroin as bait and to pacify the animal, the official Xinhua News Agency said. When Xiguang was found two months later along with six other captured elephants in China's southwest, he was suffering from withdrawal and was sent to a protection centre in China's tropical Hainan island. Xiguang received daily methadone injections in doses five times larger than those given to a human and has now fully recovered, Xinhua said. The Asian elephant is threatened with extinction, according to the World Wildlife Fund conservation group.
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Have a great weekend
D