Petty maybe, but that's tradition. Our traditional stance now firmly established, we have a problem with the Blue Jays batting order. It's too traditional. Their job is to get on so the gorillas hitting third, fourth and fifth can drive them home. Rabbits score runs.
Gorillas get the RBIs.
A batting order is set up so that late in a game, a leadoff hitter can get on, the No. 2 hitter has the ability to bunt him over and the No. 3 hitter can drive in either the tying or winning run. That made sense when rotations included Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants and Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals. It's mash, mash, mash. When you get tired of that, it's either swing from the heels or swing harder. If Shannon Stewart can make out a lineup or rewrite a lineup, taking himself out of the No. 3 spot to bat leadoff, we can come up with a lineup suggestion.