Blue Jays to A-Rod: All Is Forgiven

The last time the Blue Jays and Yankees squared off, A-Rod expanded his cheap manuever repertoire by infamously shouting "mine" as he rounded the bases, fooling Jays' third baseman Howie Clark into laying off a pop fly that he thought shortstop John McDonald just called for.

Well, more than a month has past. And as the Jays head to Yankee Stadium to square off with A-Rod again, they appeared to have put it all behind them.

"No one's here to pick fights," said McDonald, shrugging off the idea that Toronto might retaliate. "I think it might've been made into a bigger deal than it was on the field. ... Howie and I have talked about it already. We talked about it right after the game. If we had just caught the ball, it wouldn't have mattered."

"That was almost two months ago," said [Manager John] Gibbons, unwilling to offer much more on the subject. "We forgot all about that it was so long ago. That's all I have to say about it."

Okay, so everyone's saying the right things. But with the Jays dropping tonight's series opener and falling a couple games behind the Yanks in the East, they may need to take a page from A-Rod's book if they want to climb back into the race.