In response to Alex's mascot blog here's a shot of the brand new, yet to be named mascot at Mount Allison University. This new mascot replaces the departed Monty the Mountie.

I had the opportunity to wear the suit of the former mascot, Monty the Mountie for a game in Halifax vs. SMU back in 97. Monty's whereabouts are now unknown.

Perhaps he's with S.A.W.C.Y the Town of Sackville's waterfowl park mascot.

The Big Money

Geddy Lee must have been thinking about the Yankees when he came up with that song. From his front row seat at the Skydome tonight he would have seen the big money first hand. Everyone's favourite former Red Sox, Johnny Damon, and he group of big dollar buddies Jeter, A-Rod, Giambi et al were in Toronto.

In addition to the Rush vocalist, among the 42,336 in the stands were , Mike "Pinball" Clemons and a guy who may or may not have been K-Os. All that for a tilt featuring Roy Halliday vs. Mike Mussina.

Leave it to Air Canada to screw up a good night at the park. We took off from the game with the Jays ahead 4-3 in time to make the flight. Then good old AC makes everyone sit on the plane for 45 minutes before take-off so we missed the Yanks tie it up in the 8th and then Vernon Wells win it with a homer in the 11th.

The game was ok - not a lot of action but the Jays comeback from a 3-0 deficit brought the crowd back into it.

Reportedly the hot dogs at Skydome are only mediocre. 25 cent Lynx dogs are much better.

Skratch and the Goulburn Sanitation Monster could take Ace and Diamond in a tag team match.

It was 25 cent hot dog night at Lynx staduim. I don't think they ran this promotion last year when Walter Young was on the roster. The 3,100 (?) fans didn't reach the target of 10,300 hot dogs eaten, but some of the people in the stands were trying hard to put us over the top.

Got a kick out of John Schuerholz Jr. - hitting .153 playing for Richmond. I guess you can hit .153 when your Dad is the GM of the big league team. They also have Tony Pena Jr. on the roster.

Moving on to the big leagues on Thursday night. Tickets for the game 1 of the Jays/Yankees series in Toronto. Halliday vs. Mussina. Pics to follow.

Went up to the Valley today do help Rob bring in the hay. Ankle boy drove the truck while the rest of us worked.

Had a great meal, saw the horses and donkeys and made it back to the city in time for supper. We even listened to this guy and this guy on the way!

Well, In order to get an account and post on other people's blogs, I had to create this one. Don't know how much I'll post, but it will be convenient to have a spot to toss some links for people to see, and to leave comments about baseball, and whatever else.