Atta Boy Josh

In 1999 Inky and I spent our summer working for the Bowie Baysox who are the AA affiliate of the Orioles. We had more than a few guys on that team who made it to the show (Augie Ojeda, Ryan Kohlmeier, Eugene Kingsale, Brain Falkenborg, Ivanon Coffie, Carlos Casimiro, Luis Matos, Matt Riley and Jason Werth) but three of my favorites were Rick Short, who finally made the bigs a few years ago with the Nats, and Howie Clark and Josh Towers.

Clark and Towers are teammates once again in the Big Leagues with the Blue Jays. You may remember a flap a few weeks back over weather it was bush league for A-Rod to yell 'ha' as he ran past Clark while he was trying to catch a pop up. Howie dropped the ball, thinking the short stop was calling him off, and A-Rod had pictures of him taken with a blonde bimbo at his hotel. It wasn't a banner weekend for either of them. Oh, and by the way, it was bush.

Well the Jays showed how they felt about it when they threw behind Rod Muncher last night, and tonight Howie got some backup "code" style from his old Baysox teammate. Towers plunked A-Cock and caused both benches to empty. Towers, who makes as much in a season as A-Rod does a paycheck, was just sticking up for a guy that he's been playing with of and on over the last decade plus. That's good baseball. Roger Clemens, who had a good game for a change, did his part by plunking Alex Rios and he and Joe got to hit the showers early. Long live the Code.