The Bills and Erie County are negotiating a new lease, to keep the team from moving to Toronto, LA, or anywhere else. Meanwhile, the Bills will continue to play at least one game a season in Toronto (so they have a relationship with the Rogers organization). Not sure this has anything to do with a possible Buffalo-Jays pairing.

Also liked Tommy Hunter & Chris Davis from Texas for Koji. Not great players but definite role players this year, especially Davis.

Meanwhile, one bright spot for the Feesh last night was the two innings of one hit ball turned in by rookie Tom Koehler, who seems to have shaken off the jitters that marred his first appearance and found his style and rhythm.

Sounds like the Iron Giant will sit out another game tonight. There’s some buzz about just how serious his left oblique injury really is.

It appears that the owners of the Buffalo franchise were tired of the weak team put on the field by the Mets. The Jays wanted out of Las Vegas and Buffalo was always their preferred destination as it is only 90 min away by car. A lot of Jays fans from the Niagara Peninsula area, can be expected to take in games in Buffalo.

First let me recap our first 4 games of the west coast series: It’s my understanding that Angelos didn’t want to pay the overnight shipping fees to get the players’ bats to Oakland in time for game 1, so he just sent them over on a truck that took a few days. That’s the only logical explanation as to why we went from hot bats at home to silent bats in the first 2 games of that series. Not like the pitchers were phenoms (although they were solid and owned us). Game 3 we finally woke up, and it carried over into last nights game against the M’s.

And man, what a game. I don’t mean this in an arrogant way, but I cannot imagine being an M’s fan, getting pumped up for a trade 3 years ago sending Adam Jones and Tilly to Baltimore for Beddard, fast forward to today and watch them single handedly take the W. My favorite moment of the game however? Matty Weiters homer. Perfect pitch. Perfect swing. And it looked completely effortless. High hopes for Matt’s bats busting bombs into bleachers for years to come.

And for those naysayers, since there’s tons (mostly Yanks and Rays fans shakin in their boots): The difference between these O’s and past teams? Confidence. 2 losses to the A’s this late and we would’ve buckled and fell apart. Instead? Put up 19 runs over the next 2 games, starters only giving up 4 runs total, and trail the Yanks by a half game. But are we content in Baltimore? No sir. I don’t want to go into Oakland for a wildcard showdown. I want to top the Yanks. And we can. And we will.