"What A Difference A Day Makes...."

So scooted on down the road to lovely Bradenton Florida to watch the Jays battle the Pittsburgh Pirates.

It's no Yankee Stadium, but still pretty nice facility for Spring Training.

And cool Pirates Camo hats handed out.

Monkeys?

Not sure what other flying objects you need to be worried about.

And wait a second - that doesn't look like a real Canadian flag.

It's bad enough when they sing our national anthem to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree", but the flag?


Ah ha!

So here's the real deal.

Let's zoom in, eh, on that other one?

This looks like a Dollar Store version.

But other than that, the park was excellent.

Very good grandstand seats in the outfield.  Bars on both sides.  All over actually.

Stadium was much better than the Jays that day. 

Can't bring myself to put up a shot of the score. but when we left, it was 22-2 for the Bucs.  Ended up 22-5.  

And it wasn't our scrubs pitching either.  Two of our starting rotation fireballers (as in throwing gasoline on the fire) gave up 14 runs in three innings.  Ouff.....  Not a good omen.

Well at least we have the Leafs going for us.

Or do we......... Ouff.