Hits & Misc. #20: Baseball. Is. Back. ⚾️
Baseball is back, friends. 👏
It’s a sunny day in southern Ontario and we’ve got a season full of questions for the Blue Jays—Will Vladdy sign? Will Bo? How many Loonie Dogs will fans ingest?
The answers are sure to come in fits and spurts not unlike the pace of the game itself, and no matter what happens on the field—or in the microbiomes of fans—you’ll find me following along with that mix of excitement and incredulity we’ve become so accustomed to as fans of the franchise. 😉
And so, to celebrate the start of the season, here’s a pair of my favourite quotes on the sport, followed by some Jays-inspired designs of mine from the archives…
“Baseball isn’t here to be convenient for you. Rather, you have to be present for it. Baseball is played on a timescale that is outside our overburdened modern schedules, making it a beautiful and transgressive thing to behold in our current time-crunched epoch.
Watching baseball thus becomes a revolutionary act, one which runs contrary to societal expectations of timeliness and convenience. The length of a game depends solely upon probability and chance so the best practice is to sit down and enjoy it.”
“Compared to the pace of an NFL or NBA game, the MLB is a banjo being lazily plucked on a river bank. But that rhythm of: pitch, snap into the catcher's glove, “strike!”, the soft murmur of a relaxed crowd, another pitch, the crack of a bat beckoning them to attention, and the smattering of applause as a runner reaches first–that’s just everything.”
MISC. 🔗
🎨 In the lead-up to the Jays’ City Connect jersey debut, I took a swing at it myself with this homage to one of the city’s nicknames/insults and our collective penchant for the ballpark wiener. Then I threw some black & teal into the mix 🖤!
🙃 Over the years, I’ve had some fun remixing the Jays’ logo with those of their American League East rivals.
🌭 Remember when Topps celebrated the number of hot dogs Mets fans ate one night despite Jays fans eating MORE hot dogs at their WORST?! Yeah, I fixed that.
