On Monday night, I had the opportunity to attend an interesting event, called Pitch Talks.
It was, in essence, a baseball panel program where baseball fans have the
chance to listen to people in the baseball industry talk about…baseball, and
more specifically, the Toronto Blue Jays.
Pitch
Talks #1 was hosted by comedian Jordan
Strofolino, who even got a dig in against my patron saint, ‘ol Rance Mulliniks,
claiming that he got a bunt base hit by hitting the ball off his Adam’s Apple,
but it was unconfirmed because it was long time ago and stats weren’t kept back
then.
First
out of the gate was a comedian – Dylan Gott, who warmed the crowd up for a
couple of minutes. Is a baseball forum the ideal place for a comedian? Probably
not, but Gott at least focused on a subject that was near and dear to his
rotund heart: the oddly-shaped baseball stars we all know and love. From David
Wells to Rod Beck to Prince Fielder, and his father Cecil Fielder, then
finishing with the obvious target: Babe Ruth. Gott held his own and elicited a
couple of laughs.
Soon
enough, though, the focus was on one of the first of the main attractions: Jared
Macdonald from JaysProspects.com, who is an expert on Blue
Jays prospects and claims to have seen every one in person.
