63 days ’til Opening Day

There’s 63 days left until that best day of the year, MLB Opening Day.

63 is also the number of runs scored by Frank Thomas in 2007. The Big Hurt had a solid year in Toronto, but since the Blue Jays don’t get all that much attention, this is what many people will remember about Thomas in Toronto in 2007:

I thought it was hilarious. But a lot of people thought it was controversial. Here’s what the president of the Television Bureau of Canada had to say:

“We understand humor, we understand pillow fights,” he said. “The issue is power, and that the kid actually takes flight, disappears off the side of the bed and lands with a crash. That’s not acceptable behavior with a child and a person that large. Adults do not hit children. That’s unacceptable in real life, and it should be unacceptable in commercials.”

No, you don’t understand humor. I don’t see how anyone watching that commercial would think it’s ok for an adult to hit a child violently. Some people need to relax.