Baseball on the TV. What a concept!

Since last weekend's CityStyle infomercial/telethon hardly counts as a baseball broadcast, we're excited to see some actual games make their way to the tube.

On Sunday afternoon, we managed to catch some Mets-Astros action on WPIX, and we tuned in to WGN to see a Cubs game only to be met by a broadcast of MXP: Most Extreme Primate (the Citizen Kane of snowboarding monkey movies.)

Sportsnet, which has apparently exhausted its supply of televised poker (Zzzzzzzz) will get into the baseball broadcasting game this week. On the slate are today's Red Sox-Yankees fake game at 1pm, and, wonder of wonders, tomorrow's Jays-Yanks game at 1pm as well. We're presuming that it will be the YES broadcast, so if you've forgotten how much you hate Michael Kay, you might want to record tomorrow's game to provide you with a helpful reminder.

If it weren't A.J., we'd call this absurd

Jeff Blair reports that A.J. Burnett isn't throwing any curveballs this spring because, get this, he hurt his fingernail in his car door. No, really.

The kicker is that A.J. hasn't bothered the team's medical staff with this, but has instead gone to the salon to get a fake nail glued over top of the injured digit.

We'd like to fool ourselves into thinking that we're going to see A.J. bust out with a big 17-to-20 win season, and help lead us into the promised land, but this just doesn't bode well.

Red Sox beat writers are as confused by CityTV as we are
Imagine our embarrassment at the thought that someone outside of Toronto might have tuned into Sunday's "shameless infomercial" (as per Zelkovich) Jays-Reds broadcast on CityTV. Art Martone from the Providence Journal's excellent Sox Blog tuned in, and was "completely befuddled". Just imagine how we feel.

Bonus Coverage: CityTV is awfully proud of the broadcast, and has posted video evidence of Kathryn Humphries' "Alex Rios is Hot" piece for your consideration.

Thoughts on the CityStyle broadcast

Admittedly, we probably blew out our most salient insights in the comments section of the Drunk Jays Fans' liveblog, but here are a few thoughts on today's broadcast:

-Gord Martineau: It's as if it were the first game that he saw since Willie Upshaw's heyday. Also, really drunk.

-That bald guy with the goatee: His vague attempts at demonstrating his mad baseball knowledge were as fumbly and awkward as a we were running drunken game at a frosh party.

-Kathryn Humphreys: Not nearly as funny as she thinks, but we at least give her credit for busting out with the "Is is awkward in the shower?" question to Gregg Zaun when discussing how hot Alex Rios is. Also, "If you were a pork chop, what sauce would you smother yourself with?" Possibly hung over.

-Barb DiGiulio: Everybody loves Barb after today's game. We totally respect her ability to interview the geriatric snowbird fans without seeming cloying or too hip. Also, kinda milfy hot.

-Patrick Elster, Jays VP of Douchiness: Still evil. Also (as noted by the DJF) looks exactly like Jerry the King Lawler.

It wasn't much of a broadcast, but then again, they had promised us rank amateurism by virtue of the fact that they sent the City crew to do the game. It was really only intended to be an infomercial for the Jays ticket office, and we can get on board with that.

Sweet sweet karma
Early on in today's game, they announced that the phone system for the ticket office went kablooey. Maybe the system wasn't used to receiving calls from the 416/905.