gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

Congratulations, Roy

After a mostly disappointing Blue Jays season, I was delighted to see Roy Halladay get his 20th win of the season yesterday (a complete game, no less.)

I was at the Rogers Centre last week for Halladay's 19th win, a 6-3 victory over Boston. And I brought along my new camera, mostly to see how it worked with my old telephoto lens. I wish the lens had image stabilization, but I'm not unhappy with the results:

(More images on my Flickr set.) Sadly I don't think that even Roy's 20 wins, nine complete games and 2.78 ERA are going to earn him a Cy Young, even though he deserves it. Pretty tough to beat out Cliff Lee this year.

(I was going to mention that that both "Roy Halladay" and "Cliff Lee" are great tough-guy names, worthy of the Wild West. Until you learn that their fully names are Harry Leroy Halladay III and Clifton Phifer Lee, which sound more like  aristocratic fops.)