The Doc was dealing

Ask any fan of the Jays, ask them if they thought someday the Doc would be perfect.

The answer would have been from 99 % of the polled, "he's already perfect".

What's not perfect ?


Well he showed the baseball world last week what any Toronto fan has known since he arrived in this area, "could have told that", Doc is special, and we all here expected this, just always hoped it would be for us, not the red clad National Leaguers from Pennsylvannia.



There were the assortment of close strikes, bang bang plays at first, and diving catches, but it was mostly vintage Doc, dealing from "the have to", that thing Gary Busey referred to in Little Big League, that place inside you that tells you it is up to you to deliver.


He was rarely in those 3-1 counts, and got so many ground balls, you'd wonder if this a spring training exercise. He also got the benefit of some strike calls that umpires tend to give when they have expanded their own personal zone, so do most quality veterans.


We now have a ever growing list of perfectos, and 2 this year is remarkable, and is this the dawning of a new era , the post steroid generation, power down, stealing up, emphasis on small ball, pitchers now attacking the strike zone, instead of expecting bulky bombers with biceps bashing the biscuit out of the ballpark.