Friday, August 17, 2012

If Blue Jays were Superheroes: Ricky Romero

Toronto's half-assed answer to San Diego Comic Con is coming soon. The end of summer means sweaty cosplaying nerds from all around the Golden Horseshoe will soon gather to celebrate their pathetic, virginal-dork-ridden culture (I AM KIDDING. I'm going. I'll be the guy dressed up as Cloud Strife).

So in honor of "Fan Expo" lets look at the Blue Jays, if they were comic book characters.

Ricky Romero is The Green Lantern.

With the luck the Jays have had this year, this is the closest anyone will get to a World Series ring

If you asked me last year what comic book character best exemplifies Ricky Romero, I probably would have gone a different route.

I would’ve picked someone intense and focused: Batman, maybe the Punisher.

It’d have to be a character with a dark, nasty side… a character that embodies “the tough kid from East L.A.”  persona that John Farrell has been desperately trying to get Romero to embrace.
I’d never have chosen Green Lantern (nothing against him), because Hal Jordan is not a bad-ass. He’s a lantern-jawed, mystical space-cop.

But a couple of things have happened in the last year:

1.      Romero could not live up to the expectations placed upon him, becoming one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball
2.      The Green Lantern movie could not live up to the expectations placed upon it, becoming one of the poorest-received comic book movies of all time.

So is Ricky Romero the Green Lantern of baseball ONLY because of the crushing sense of disappointment associated with his 2012 season? Review the below chart and let me know what you think:

The Green Lantern…
Ricky Romero…
SEE BELOW PICTURE

In the words of Stan Lee: ‘nuff said.

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