THURSDAY COMMENTARY – FOR JUST ONE NIGHT
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BASEBALL NEEDED WHAT HAPPENED AT ROGERS CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
I FEEL LIKE WE ALL DID.
AND NOT JUST AARON JUDGE CLUBBING HIS 61STHOMERUN OF THE SEASON TO TIE ROGER MARIS’S 61-YEAR OLD AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORD.
IT WAS WHAT CAME AFTER.
JUDGE’S YANKEES CLINCHED THE A-L EAST PENNANT THE NIGHT BEFORE, AND JUDGE ADMITTED THAT RELIEVED A LOT OF PRESSURE IN THE HOMERUN CHASE.
WHEN HE SMACKED THE HISTORIC BOMB INTO THE LEFT FIELD BULLPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JUDGE SAID HE WAS JUST HAPPY IT GAVE HIS TEAM THE LEAD AS THEY WENT ON TO WIN 8-3.
THERE’S A “TEAM-FIRST” ATTITUDE IF I EVER SAW IT.
AND PERFECTLY, A JAYS COACH SNAGGED THE BALL AND GAVE IT TO JUDGE’S MOM.
PRETTY SURE SHE’S NOT SELLING IT.
AS IF ALL THAT WASN’T HEARTWARMING ENOUGH, ROGER MARIS JUNIOR WAS IN ATTENDANCE AND TOLD THE MEDIA AFTERWARDS THERE WAS A SYNCHRONICITY IN THE FACT HIS DAD WORE NUMBER 9, JUDGE WEARS 99, AND WEDNESDAY MARKED HIS NINTH DAY ON THE ROAD FOLLOWING THE YANKEES, WAITING FOR JUDGE TO TIE THE RECORD.
THE YOUNGER MARIS SAID HE WAS PULLING FOR JUDGE AND WILL BE ROOTING FOR HIM TO HIT NUMBER 62 OVER THE COURSE OF THE YANKEES’ FINAL SEVEN GAMES.
HE THEN WENT ON TO BLAST MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SAYING JUDGE AND HIS FATHER’S TOTAL SHOULD STAND AS THE M-L-B RECORD, AND NOT THE 73 BLASTED BY STEROID-TAINTED BARRY BONDS, OR THE OTHER TOTALS PUT UP BY JUICERS MARK MCGWIRE AND SAMMY SOSA IN 90’S.
YOU SEE THAT WHOLE UGLY SCENE HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP AGAIN DURING THIS JUDGE-MARIS CHASE AND MLB HAD HOPED WE’D ALL FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT, BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO CHANGE THE RECORDS.
BUT FOR JUST ONE NIGHT – A WEDNESDAY EVENING IN TORONTO – ALL WAS RIGHT IN BASEBALL, AND INTEGRITY MATTERED.
THAT’S TODAY’S ROD PEDERSEN COMMENTARY
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