Stop Pointing at me, Ezequiel Carrera

Allow me to explain my disappearance.

A week or so ago I started a summer job. A really, really nice one, with beer on tap, in a great part of Philadelphia, that used my graphic design skills to the best of my ability and appreciated my work effort. It's a wonderful job, a job I enjoy. The downside is that it took a ton of time away from the blog this week.

There'd be one or two nights where I'd be home, and I'd be so drained by the day that I wouldn't have the energy to write a post. The other night I went to a Phillies game, and usually I write those up right after I'm there, but I was too exhausted, from the job and the ineptitude of the Phillies' bullpen, to write. And then last night I got home late from a happy hour.

So, like the Toronto Blue Jays, I've been too exhausted to even give a shit about baseball.

I'm gonna try to set up a system where I can pre-plan posts, or figure out a way to write that doesn't involve me writing incredibly tired, broken posts of bizarre amalgamations of the english language that just ends up finishing off in a Blue Jays or Cardinals slam. The last thing I want from this job is for the quality of this blog to suffer. I've been doing this for eight years, and I'm not gonna let even something as cool as this job finish this blog off.

More posts are gonna happen. More frigging box breaks and non-custom posts as well, because having just the two custom posts per day is honestly cheating. I wanna get back to quality writing. I wanna get back to where Mint Condition was when I wasn't mentally fried.

To quote Joel Embiid, it's the process. And speaking of, hey, wow, the Sixers got a really nice pick the other night.

Coming Tonight: That long-awaited recap of the Phillies game I went to Wednesday night.

Uncustomed Heroes of 2016: Blue Jays

So, for the 2nd year in a row, the Blue Jays made it to the ALCS. I mean, this is after the Cardinals stopped being amazing, so I'd prefer to not worry about both of these guys at once, to be honest.

The Jays did some interesting stuff this year, and managed to pull together a playoff team with...a slightly worse squad than they had last year. Melvin Upton was a last minute addition from San Diego, and he did his best in his last month or so with the team. He seems to be back again, now that he's been put away from his brother, and hopefully the good luck will continue, though preferably somewhere else.

Francisco Liriano was snagged at the trade deadline, from Pittsburgh. This is one of his down seasons, so he wasn't perfect, but he did what he could, and was mostly used in relief in the postseason.

Ezequiel Carrera's one of those bench players that made big news in the postseason by doing some crazy things off the clutch. He's essentially this iteration of the team's version of Rajai Davis, but he's still very speedy and very explosive when he needs to be.

R.A. Dickey's one of those players who's impossible to hate, even if he's on a team you don't like. He's just a knuckleballer of the highest caliber, and he's been having a nice little career in Toronto, even though he hasn't been the epicenter of the rotation like people thought he'd be. I've grown a ton of respect for him, and hopefully he'll have another nice season in Atlanta.

Coming Tomorrow- Speaking of Atlanta...a few people who didn't ENTIRELY suck this season.