Comments on: Comment of the Day: The Jays and national holidays http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sat, 25 May 2013 14:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308394 Wed, 30 May 2012 02:01:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308394 You guys tried that back when (war of 1812: how soon they forget, eh?). We repelled your invasion, marched on you, and burned your capital. Then we went back home, gave you your border back, and resumed chillin’ with the back bacon, beer and igloos like we used to. No one wants that to happen again, eh?

]]> By: Jeremy Fox http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308318 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:49:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308318 Not to you, brewcrewfan, but it is to others. And anyway, if doing something is a total no-brainer, it should be done, even if not doing it isn’t the end of the world.

]]> By: Jeremy Fox http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308314 Tue, 29 May 2012 22:45:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308314 I live in Alberta too. You’re not alone. And your comment is spot-on.

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308133 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:23:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308133 Cinco de?

Mayo absolutely needs refrigeration.

]]> By: brewcrewfan54 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308129 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:19:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308129 Once again, no big deal.

]]> By: El Bravo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308124 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:16:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308124 Mayo

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308116 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:10:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308116 Now, don’t get us started on refrigerated condiments…

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308111 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:09:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308111 The Cheesecake Liberation Front? Is that like the People’s Front of Cheesecake? Or the Cheesecake People’s Front?

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308108 Tue, 29 May 2012 19:01:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308108 But only one team had no horse in the Memorial Day race. Had they been on the road yesterday, there would’ve been 15 fanbases happy for a home game on a national holiday, and not 14.

]]> By: natstowngreg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308037 Tue, 29 May 2012 17:43:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308037 C’mon now, you know this happens whenever anyone mentions desserts. Not that it’s a bad thing, necessarily.

]]> By: hcf95688 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308033 Tue, 29 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308033 Reader Proudly Canadian should just be happy that igloos and back bacon are not natural resources that we covet, as we otherwise would have taken over their quiant little country years ago.

]]> By: natstowngreg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308027 Tue, 29 May 2012 17:37:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308027 We of the Cheesecake Liberation Front reject the false, bourgeois cake-pie dichotomy. Cheesecake is neither cake nor pie; it is in a class of its own, superior to bourgeois cake or pie. We will continue our eternal struggle to make the people see the light and abandon their attachment to bourgeois confections.

[The key is to keep saying "bourgeois." Then someone will think you're a communist and a revolutionary and thus, somehow romantic. Even if you aren't.]

]]> By: Chipmaker http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-308017 Tue, 29 May 2012 17:24:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-308017 Time was, teams could make some requests for home dates; this is why the Red Sox are always at home on Patriots Day.

]]> By: eshine76 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307998 Tue, 29 May 2012 17:06:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307998 If it is anything like the minors (where I used to work), teams submit a short list of preferred dates ranked in order of importance. From there, the league / schedule makers try to make it work. I don’t know the politics involved, but I have to imagine there is a similar process in place in the MLB.

]]> By: proudlycanadian http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307983 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:47:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307983 No way, and it makes no sense for the Jays to be playing at home on July 4.

]]> By: WhenMattStairsIsKing http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307973 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:39:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307973 This is the best thread ever. Now I want to drown myself in dessert.

]]> By: Jeremy Fox http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307969 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:35:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307969 Teams do make scheduling requests. IIRC, I read years ago that the Orioles always ask to be on the road the weekend of the Belmont Stakes. And as noted in the post, the Red Sox are always at home on Patriot’s Day. But I doubt all such requests are honored. For instance, the Reds used to get to open every season at home, and I can’t imagine they’re too happy that that’s no longer the case. And I’m sure every US team wants to be at home on on Independence Day.

So how does MLB decide which requests to honor? And why would they not do a no-brainer like having the Jays play at home on Victoria Day and on the road on Memorial Day? I mean, there’s no reason for *anybody* to oppose that.

]]> By: brewcrewfan54 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307967 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:33:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307967 Half the league is on the road on holidays. My Brewers were yesterday. No big deal.

]]> By: kopy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307964 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:29:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307964 Baseball games should be home on holidays. I spent Memorial Day weekend in Milwaukee wishing the Brewers, or Cubs even, had a game my dad and I could check out. Obviously they were in Arizona, and those folks would like to attend a baseball game on Memorial Day too. But holidays are big draws for baseball, and attendance is lost when a home game on an American holiday is given to Canada, and vice versa.

]]> By: kopy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307962 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307962 Only sometimes?

]]> By: El Bravo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307951 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:16:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307951 Anyone else think the topic of this thread has gone off the rails a bit? I mean, all I said was that I like pudding…hahahha…extremely provocative I know.

]]> By: goawaydog http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307949 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:16:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307949 cheesecake has crust; crust = pie; pie rules

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307942 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:06:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307942 So will the Blue Jays have fireworks after their July 4 home game against the Royals?

]]> By: koufaxmitzvah http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307941 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:05:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307941 Back when I first began my work transition, a friend had offered me a job at his bakery. Nevermind the salty mouths of the two main cake bakers, and forget the fact that the best pie they could come up with was a canned pecan filling placed within their pre-fab crust. These guys really baked some creative cakes. That’s where they shined.

I was told that, when asked by customers if our danishes and chocolate filled croissants were fresh, to respond, “They are baked fresh daily.” And, of course, with a bakery that smelled as good as this place, one would assume that, yes, these salty tongued men spent the greater part of every early morning baking these treats by hand. Which is kind of true, but only because they used their own hands to open the frozen package of treats and then used their hands to place these frozen treats in their massive oven.

Baked Fresh Daily has always been a mantra for me, so I had no problem playing games with the public. And I got to take home most pastries we didn’t sell for the day, and, yes, these items were tastey. And, yes, these guys would have to spend about 3 hours making their own danishes and pastries that wouldn’t taste any better than the frozen items they baked in the oven every morning.

Nothing against your mom, Cur, but I have to reserve my skepticism for cake bakers. I mean, you’re trying to pass off a cheesecake as a cake! It’s a cheesepie, Sir.

Go pie.

]]> By: El Bravo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307940 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:04:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307940 Don’t claim it as cake b/c it is clearly up for debate. Of course, everyone really knows it’s a custard pie, but I guess some people like to argue lost causes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake

http://askville.amazon.com/cheesecake-cake-pie/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=208486 (NOT CAKE)

]]> By: hiltonandastoria http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307939 Tue, 29 May 2012 16:04:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307939 If it makes sense
MLB ain’t interested

]]> By: Jay Seaver http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307921 Tue, 29 May 2012 15:53:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307921 The most egregious example is likely the year that the Blue Jays-Expos interleague matchup was scheduled for Canada Day… and then played in Puerto Rico.

Sometimes it seemed like MLB worked hard to screw Les Expos.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307912 Tue, 29 May 2012 15:46:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307912 You so crazy, Bravo. Its endearing in a Zambrano-esque kind of way. “Cheesecake is pie”. . . I never laughed so hard. . . 8)

]]> By: El Bravo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307901 Tue, 29 May 2012 15:32:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307901 FALSE! Cheesecake is a pie! Stop trying to steal our teams’ desserts!

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/29/comment-of-the-day-the-jays-and-national-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-307899 Tue, 29 May 2012 15:29:43 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153485#comment-307899 ‘fax, you try that ice cream (make it cookie dough, Ben & Jerry’s for preference) on some of my mom’s chocky cheesecake with that french chocolate she gets from her cousin in England and the cheese from the organic dairy here in town, and you’ll find yourself climbing over a sea of small children to get some. Cake Power, man.

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