Well it is that time of year that the sun shines a little longer throughout the day, the birds are singing, the cool breeze is blowing and baseball is soon starting. Spring Training has pretty much all but finished up by now and the teams a re gearing up for a long 162 game marathon of a season. I will look at a couple of different things and I may finally do something I have been putting off for a few years.
First thing I want to get out of the way is that I am a die hard Montreal Expos fan. So yeah, I am in kind of a bind eh? I mean the team has moved to Washington DC and been rebranded as the Washington Nationals and I find it very...VERY...hard to root for that team even though they have pretty much kept the Expos color scheme and inability to win consistently.
So being a proud Canadian boy and someone who loves to root for the underdog I have decided to accept the Toronto Blue Jays into my life and claim them as my favorite team. I do not have a favorite player right now though. I do like Ryan Zimmermon from Washington (Ironic eh?) but grew up loving to watch Jeff Bagwell of the Houston Astros and Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies and of course the Montreal Expos.
Who do I enjoy watching play the most? Whose stats do I check everyday? That is a damn good question. I honestly think that the two players I love to watch right now are Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder. Pujols is a fantastic and professional hitter. He hits alot of homeruns, drives in a lot of runs and hits for a high average that can span from .325to .365. Prince Fielder is likehis dad,a big guy who can hits the ball a serious distance. Fielder may have the best pure power swing in the game. Watch him...the guy does not get cheated at all when he is hacking at the ball.
I am a power hitting fan and yes I love seeing player hit homeruns but I do appreciate the different types of hitters in the game as well. Ichiro Suzuki, Carl Crawford and Todd Helton are high average and low power hitters who can spray the ball from left to right field with ease. They are just as important as the guys who can hit the ball over 400 feet.
So yeah...I guess that the Blue Jays are my favorite team. I guess if I needed to name a second favorite team I like the Houston Astros and I will give Washington a chance to earn my affection. I can't help it. I love my Expos and like it or not they are the closest thing I haveto them.
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