If Blue Jays were Superheroes: Ricky Romero

Toronto's half-assed answer to San Diego Comic Con is coming soon. The end of summer means sweaty cosplaying nerds from all around the Golden Horseshoe will soon gather to celebrate their pathetic, virginal-dork-ridden culture (I AM KIDDING. I'm going. I'll be the guy dressed up as Cloud Strife).

So in honor of "Fan Expo" lets look at the Blue Jays, if they were comic book characters.

Ricky Romero is The Green Lantern.



With the luck the Jays have had this year, this is the closest anyone will get to a World Series ring

If you asked me last year what comic book character best exemplifies Ricky Romero, I probably would have gone a different route.

David Cooper: Blue Jays Kingpin

So the other day I made a bit of a flip post about David Cooper being the next John Olerud.

I am now officially standing behind that.

For two reasons.

Firstly - Apparently I can't figure out how to get fan graphs to work. But I know my fucking statistics dammit.  Uhh... this chart below shows that at age 25 Cooper has a similar batting average to John Olerud...

Olerud was the king of hitting for average. (yeah, my chart is weak, but it's getting late and I just want to compare Cooper to Daredevil/Ben Affleck).

At the end of the day, I'm getting a 100% Olerudian vibe from Cooper.

For Real, David Cooper looks just like John Olerud

The only difference? 

Cooper's Dimples Above Replacement (DAR) is through the roof. 

Mesut Ozil looks exactly like Dr. Nick Riviera

Watching day two of the Euros, the fact that Mesut Ozil looks exactly like Dr. Nick Riviera became painfully obvious.

Bruce Walton - Philosopher

There are three immutable truths about Toronto Blue Jays Television Announcer Buck Martinez:

1. He has been responsible for fewer creepy old man memes than 1980's Blue Jays colour-man Fergie Oliver.

     2.  His pronunciation of the name "Encarnation" is unparalleled

     3.  Based on tonight's broadcast, he seems convinced Blue Jays pitching coach Bruce Walton is a    

          philosopher. Now I don't know Bruce Walton, but damn if he doesn't look like Socrates.... 

          Maybe Buck is right?

Mr. Belvedere Fun Kit

My birthday is coming up. Just sayin'.

In Defense of Vince Carter (or the top 3 dunks of all time, according to anyone BUT the Toronto media)

I've got this morning routine I go through, every morning.

I wake up at 5:45ish, I make some breakfast, and then I sit down, I turn on the T.V. and I flip back and forth between "19 Kids and Counting" and "Sportsdeskcentre".

So the other morning, in between the Duggar family singing their ridiculous birthday song and skydiving for Jesus, I flipped to Sportscentre and saw this:

Yeah, that was pretty good.

But lets face it, Blake Griffin is jumping over Kendrick Perkins, and Perkins' vertical-jump-ability is about 5 inches, maybe 5 & 1/2, on a good day.

It is an impressive replay dunk. Griffin is exuding that sense of purpose that every great dunk has (seriously, there just seems to be a singular sense of "this is going into the fucking net and nothing is going to stop me" surrounding every solid dunk shown on replay).

But I was curious....

It's one thing when Jay Onrait (a.k.a. Bell Media's attempt to create a Canadian Joel McHale; an attempt at which they succeeded but unfortunately have no idea how to capitalize on) calls a dunk kick-ass awesome, but another thing when my nardcore (wolfman was nardcore) NBA friends like it.

So I asked 4 separate NBA superfan friends of mine to name the 5 best dunks of all time.

And what came back surprised me.

None of the dunks belonged to V.C., to Vinsanity, to Air Canada...

And it got me thinking as to why.