JASON BAY --Lowest BA, highest SATs?

[Marc Wallace]

Excerpt from comment in today's NYTimes made by the Mets' concussed, under-achieving, former All-Star--in a spontaneous, verbal response--trying to explain whether he still might be suffering from head injury:

"A lot of people look for a lot of reasons as to why things may or may not have come down as they historically have. Albeit that’s a viable scenario, but I can’t tell you from one day to the next how it felt..."

"Albiet!" Just sayin' -- if this is the type of vocabulary Bay musters just answering a sportswriter's question in the locker room, imagine how much he must be over-thinking when he's at the plate! Jeeesh!!

[Cowtipper]

Albeit isn't that impressive a word...

[Marc Wallace]

Albeit isn't that impressive a word...

C'mon. Of course, I'm exaggerating and kidding a bit, but in MLB locker room? In same sentence with "viable scenario?!" Compare this language with chatter of 99.9% of all pro athletes,all sports.

[ol' aches and pains]

Bay's Canadian; they speak The King's English up there.

[Dude Paskert]

Bay's Canadian; they speak The King's English up there.

Boy, millions of Quebecois are going to be after you now.
I always thought of Canadian English as being more like the MacKenzie Brothers' than the King's...

[Ben Grimm]

I have a feeling that when you're such a failure on your big contract and are constantly carcassed on the DL, you have plenty of time to learn a new 'word of the day'.

[ol' aches and pains]

Boy, millions of Quebecois are going to be after you now.

I doubt if many of them will see my post. If they cared about baseball, the Washington Nationals would still be the Montreal Expos.

[Marc Wallace]

I doubt if many of them will see my post. If they cared about baseball, the Washington Nationals would still be the Montreal Expos.

Great one, RYFan! Meanwhile, I was originally going to note that the Bay is Canadian, but I figured one of the MacKenzie-like hosers out there would write me aboot that, hey. And hey, how's this hosers?--The exquisitely erudite Bay is also the graduate of a Jesuit college in the U.S. that is also the alma mater of at least twelve (12) other former players once in The Bigs. And that university school is ... (???)

[Dude Paskert]

Great one, RYFan! Meanwhile, I was originally going to note that the Bay is Canadian, but I figured one of the MacKenzie-like hosers out there would write me aboot that, hey. And hey, how's this hosers?--The exquisitely erudite Bay is also the graduate of a Jesuit college in the U.S. that is also the alma mater of at least twelve (12) other former players once in The Bigs. And that university school is ... (???)

Ummmmm.....St. Moosehead's?

[Jackaroo Dave]

Fordham. . . ?

[ol' aches and pains]

I guessed St. John's, but I was wrong.

[Marc Wallace]

Ummmmm.....St. Moosehead's?

Nope, and it's not St Pauli Girl Univ. either.

[Marc Wallace]

Fordham. . . ?

Nope, but you're only 3000 miles away.

[Marc Wallace]

I guessed St. John's, but I was wrong.

I guess the reason you know you're wrong is because by now you've found out it's...Gonzaga, in Spokane--also the alma mater of Bing Crosby, plus a dozen MLB players besides Jason Bay, none of whom can sing "White Christmas" half as good as Bing (though he could never handle the curveball...)