Blue Jays Nostalgia Thread

[Black Watch]

Until the team beings to play well again, let's revel in the past. Post your favourite players, memories, uniforms, just about anything related to the Blue Jays of yesteryear.

Here is mine:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5lZN0T8lNg[/youtube]

[RapsFanInVA]

The Jays last made the playoffs when I was 3 years old. I have only known misery with this team, with Roy Halladay being the one beacon of light that made this team worth watching. (although Carlos Delgado was cool too)

My most nostalgic memories are following mlb.com gamecasts as a kid, watching the blue circle appear when a ball was hit, then getting really excited when it says "in play, no out(s) recorded" and hoping for HRs, or the opposite feeling when we were pitching. To celebrate our pathetic history (during my time as a fan) here are a few moments from random players that stand out for no particular reason:

Tanyon Sturtze: I remember him getting absolutely rocked on a gamecast multiple times. I'll never forget staring at his big, dumb face in the little square above the hitter. (this isn't the right picture. for whatever reason he still had a Rays hat in the gamecasts from the previous season when he went 4-18)



Bobby Kielty. JP Riccardi was super excited to get this guy, thus I was too. Pretty sure he didn't do anything of note.

Jayson Werth. I was watching the gamecast when he hit his first career HR with us in 2003, it was an opposite field HR. He did nothing more of note for us, disappeared for awhile, then became a great player. Good times.

Shawn Green. He hit 4 HRs in a game, and I actually watched it with MLB Extra Innings. That was cool.

[s e n s i]

catch de taste!

my two favourite players as a youngin were pat borders (wtf) and ed sprague. i used to want to chew tobacco so badly because of these guys

orlando merced once threw me a ball that landed in foul territory, i believe i was 9 yrs old at the time. my first big league ball. i have a total of 5 now from various foul balls over the years, but i'm proud to say the first one was the only time i actually brought my glove to the ballpark

remember when the '09 jays started the season 27-14? and then lost 9 straight

[SharoneWright]

I own this somewhere on VHS: "Sky High: 1989..."

Guess it's worth 75 bucks.....

http://www.amazon.com/HIGH-STORY-TORONT ... B004QRG7Y6

Give it up for my favourite Jay. My university room-mate and l ('99) called him "the money-man":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZKJAdFi2s[/youtube]

[Homer Jay]

Not Blue Jays realted but I still find myself singing:

Well Mr. Burns had done it.
The Power Plant had won it.
With Roger Clemens cluckin all the while.

Mike Scoscia's tragic illness made us smile.
While Wadd Boggs lay unconscious on the bar room tile.

We're talking softball/From Maine to San Diego
We're talking softball/Mattingly and Canseco

Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw.
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law.

We're talking Homer/Ozzy and the Straw.

[Hoopstarr]

My first sports memory was Timlin to Carter to win the 92 WS. I had just turned 7 and I was a recent immigrant so that's etched pretty well even though I didn't know anything about baseball. By the next year I was speaking English and a big fan. We saw the 93 game 6 at some social function so all the men were packed in a classroom at some school with a 25 inch TV. The room erupted.

Since then I've been to several games with my big cousin. I really only remember details like where we sat and who was pitching. Marty Janzen was pitching in one of the ones where we had seats close to 1B. We also sat by 3B once, and LF middle deck when a Joe Carter foul ball whizzed right by us. Also went to a Yankees game once with a friend and his parents. I went to the Canada Day game in 2006 with Taubenheim starting. Glaus and Hinske homered, BJ Ryan closed it out. Since 1999 I've been in the US so I rarely got to see them on TV. The 2001 season when they opened the season on Puerto Rico was on TV. That spring was last great time in Toronto sports (relatively) because all three teams were doing well at the same time and I remember Dick Schaap even made his "parting shot" noting that on The Sports Reporters. In 2009 I finally got to see Halladay. He got outdueled in Atlanta 1-0 by Kenshin Kawakami of all people. We had seats by the LF foul line and before the game he walked out there to warm up his arm. Even watching it felt like a Field of Dreams moment. I made sure not to miss any Halladay start in his final two years, whether on stream or that godsend Raptors Nation site. And that's the last time I truly cared about Jays baseball.

[Santoki]

I'm sick of nostalgia.

[Black Watch]

I own this somewhere on VHS: "Sky High: 1989..."

Guess it's worth 75 bucks.....

http://www.amazon.com/HIGH-STORY-TORONT ... B004QRG7Y6

Give it up for my favourite Jay. My university room-mate and l ('99) called him "the money-man":

Tony Fernandez is my all-time favourite, too. I think he might have been the Jays' favourite, as he put on four different versions of the Jays uniform, playing four separate stints on the team. I loved the sidearm throw, even if I could never get it right myself, it still looked fluid and smooth when he did it.

[Black Watch]

orlando merced once threw me a ball that landed in foul territory, i believe i was 9 yrs old at the time. my first big league ball. i have a total of 5 now from various foul balls over the years, but i'm proud to say the first one was the only time i actually brought my glove to the ballpark

And I remember when you caught a homerun ball a couple of years ago. We had the highlights linked in a game/series-thread and you came on at the end of the night to say you caught one of the HRs with a beer in hand.

[Randle McMurphy]

2007 is our year (and no, I didn't make this): http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=sy5p9x&s=5#.U12AsPldV2c

[s e n s i]

orlando merced once threw me a ball that landed in foul territory, i believe i was 9 yrs old at the time. my first big league ball. i have a total of 5 now from various foul balls over the years, but i'm proud to say the first one was the only time i actually brought my glove to the ballpark

And I remember when you caught a homerun ball a couple of years ago. We had the highlights linked in a game/series-thread and you came on at the end of the night to say you caught one of the HRs with a beer in hand.

i think you're misconstruing just a minor detail of that story but yeah that was me. i actually didn't catch the ball because i had a beer in my hand. some guy literally dove on it like it was a goal line fumble and i wasn't about to waste my precious watered-down $11 beer so i could wrestle a stranger for a jp arencibia HR ball. that would've been a very poor financial decision

[Black Watch]

orlando merced once threw me a ball that landed in foul territory, i believe i was 9 yrs old at the time. my first big league ball. i have a total of 5 now from various foul balls over the years, but i'm proud to say the first one was the only time i actually brought my glove to the ballpark

And I remember when you caught a homerun ball a couple of years ago. We had the highlights linked in a game/series-thread and you came on at the end of the night to say you caught one of the HRs with a beer in hand.

i think you're misconstruing just a minor detail of that story but yeah that was me. i actually didn't catch the ball because i had a beer in my hand. some guy literally dove on it like it was a goal line fumble and i wasn't about to waste my precious watered-down $11 beer so i could wrestle a stranger for a jp arencibia HR ball. that would've been a very poor financial decision

Ha, and two years later that's an even better story!

[11x]

Played baseball with a bat boy on the '92 team. He would show up to games and practices with things like Alomars' batting glove.

[Macho]

My first Jays memory as a kid was watching Jeff Frye hit for the cycle on CBC.

We were too poor for cable back than so I remember listening to every single game of the 2003 season on the FAN590. I loved that team and was so jacked about Aquillino Lopez and Josh Phelps, I thought they would be big stars after that year.

[Kaizen]

My earliest memories are being at the skydome when they won in 92 and going to Tim Horton's on Yonge when they won in 93. I was too young to remember much about either year though.

My favourite memory (Sad because it was only a regular season game that meant nothing) is when Burnett came back to Toronto. The crowd was amazing that night with Halladay starting for us and it will be hard to ever top that for me because I am cheap and can't afford playoff tickets.

[SharoneWright]

My earliest (live) Jays memory is sitting in "General Admission" at the CNE on Labour Day in 1987 when Doyle Alexander & The Tigers beat us with an extra-innings home run -- part of the 7 game collapse that cost us the AL East crown that year. Bought a souvenir baseball autographed by the whole team/an auto-pen that day. Also smelled what marijuana smelled like for the first time....

[uniballer]

I was in grade 5 and me and some buddies found out that Danny Cox lived just down the street from us (was living in Mississauga) rang the door bell one day before school to ask for a autograph he was in his underwear and hung over and got really pissed at us buy hey we did get that autograph!

[uniballer]

But my first real jays memory was watching the jays lose to the athletics in 1989 I was 7 at the time and the actual games are a blur I just remeber my dad being pissed.

I really wish I could of enjoyed the jays glory years in the early 90s but I was just too young to understand that it doesn't happen often. Now every year have high hopes of seeing the playoffs again but who knows when that day will come

[Nolan]

Remember Brian Tallet's mutton chops?

[uniballer]

Remember Brian Tallet's mutton chops?

Oh yes "wolverine" he was one ugly mfer.