Bird Watch - Oh What a Cute Bird............WTF Why'd You Throw a Rock At It?!?!?

Ok so the title of this post is just supposed to lighten the mood. I do realize how serious what happened to Happ in the game was, and I wish him all the best, not only because he's seems like a pretty hard working, stand up guy, but up until now he's been the most consistent player we've had on the Jays roster.  Now thats saying a lot since he came into spring training expecting to be in the bullpen then as spring training came to a close it looked more like he was heading down to triple A buffalo, not something any established major league starter wants to have to do, but he pulled himself up and managed to snag a spot in the rotation by performing the best I've ever seen since years ago when he was with the Phillies. Personally I appreciate that kind of work ethic and I hope all of the other Jays fans out there appreciate it as well because without it we would have had to send an unprepared Ricky Romero into the season as our #5 or even one of the unexperienced guys in our bullpen.

There is something positive to be taken from the game however, and it's back to the whole 'mentality of the team' thing I talked about in my last post. And that is that the Jays despite that insane injury game back to win the game, when Happ got hit players on both sides were shocked and the players on the Jays side could have honestly gone one of 2 ways. They could have become depressed and downtrodden for the rest of the game because a key player was knocked out in a horrendous way, or they could take the 'let's win this one for Happ' mentality. Thankfully they seem to have chose the second because they came back and won the game 6-4. And as I've said before the offence again wasn't trying to kill the ball, they were consistently getting it in play. Mind you there were a couple innings and at bats where someone would hit into a double play or would hit/swing at a bad pitch but it was light years better than what has been done before, so all thats left is to hope this streak continues and the Jays keep recovering their game.

-Eric

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