bustaheims
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L K said:
Yeah. Though, I do blame Gibby for not having the team start playing small ball more early in the season when it was already clear that they weren't going to power their way to wins in the same way as last season.
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Yeah. Though, I do blame Gibby for not having the team start playing small ball more early in the season when it was already clear that they weren't going to power their way to wins in the same way as last season.
Heroic Shrimp
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I am forbidden by tradition from mentioning anything notable about tonight's Jays game.
Heroic Shrimp
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Oh, nevermind...
hockeyfan1
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The best the Jays can hope for is a Wild Card spot -- currently +1G over the Orioles there by way of a 10-2 whitewash of the Seattle Mariners last night. Jays' starter J.A. Happ earned his 20th win of the year, becoming the sixth player in franchise history to achieve the milestone.
Forget winning the A.L. East as the Red Sox have amassed a +4G lead over the Jays. Unless Boston suffers a total (col)lapse, it won't be getting any easier for the Jays to overtake them than it already is (which isn't).
Forget winning the A.L. East as the Red Sox have amassed a +4G lead over the Jays. Unless Boston suffers a total (col)lapse, it won't be getting any easier for the Jays to overtake them than it already is (which isn't).
Kin
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L K said:
To that point this from 538:
Baseball's savviest and crappiest Bullpen managers
Spoiler alert: Gibbons is not one of the savviest.
hockeyfan1
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Final homestand for the Jays starts tonight as they open up a four-game series against the NYYankees.
With just ten games remaining on the season, this upcoming series may very well determine the Jays' post-season hopes. Looks like our boys need a boost...
GO JAYS GO!!
With just ten games remaining on the season, this upcoming series may very well determine the Jays' post-season hopes. Looks like our boys need a boost...
GO JAYS GO!!
Great run of baseball by the Jays right now. Hoping their peaking at the right time. It's unfortunate the Red Sox have won 11 straight. Looks like Baltimore or Detroit in the wildcard game.hockeyfan1 said:
Ask me how their season went after the wildcard game, not before.
hockeyfan1
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Jays, Yankees engage in brawl, as Blue Jays lose 7-5. Yankees avoid getting swept in the four-game series.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-yankees-benches-clear-batters-get-hit/
The Jays still hold the 1 game Wildcard lead over the Orioles, who will start a three game series with the Jays that begins tonight.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-yankees-benches-clear-batters-get-hit/
The Jays still hold the 1 game Wildcard lead over the Orioles, who will start a three game series with the Jays that begins tonight.
hockeyfan1
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For Blue Jays President Mark Shapiro, the death of Miami Marlins pitching ace Jose Fernandez hits close to home...
For Shapiro the news brought back a wave of personal memories from spring training of 1993, when he was a member of the Cleveland Indians front office. In March of that year Indians relievers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed in a spring training boating accident that seriously injured left-hander Bob Ojeda. After those losses, baseball games seemed insignificant in comparison.
?Baseball?s one of those games that?s unforgiving in the sense that it keeps moving, it keeps going,? Shapiro said. ?There?s a comfort to that, but there?s also a cruelty to that."
?We all deal with that whether it?s kids being born, family members lost, it keeps moving. It?s a hard thing to get past for a team and an organization. Not being (in Miami) it?s hard to begin to think about. The only reason I can begin to think about it is because I went through something as terrible and as horrific.?
?When you live in close quarters with people for 183 days and spring training, in a lot of ways baseball becomes your family,? Shapiro said. ?You lean on people more than you think. There are stronger leaders than you ever know and there?s greater comfort being with each other than with anyone else. It?s a reminder that the clubhouse is your home and the team is your family.?
?You tend to forget, particularly people watching from a distance, you tend to forget that these guys doing super-human things for three hours a day are just human beings, just people,? Shapiro said. ?Everybody probably goes home and pays a little more attention with their loved ones."
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/devastating-loss-marlins-jose-fernandez-felt-rogers-centre/
For Shapiro the news brought back a wave of personal memories from spring training of 1993, when he was a member of the Cleveland Indians front office. In March of that year Indians relievers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed in a spring training boating accident that seriously injured left-hander Bob Ojeda. After those losses, baseball games seemed insignificant in comparison.
?Baseball?s one of those games that?s unforgiving in the sense that it keeps moving, it keeps going,? Shapiro said. ?There?s a comfort to that, but there?s also a cruelty to that."
?We all deal with that whether it?s kids being born, family members lost, it keeps moving. It?s a hard thing to get past for a team and an organization. Not being (in Miami) it?s hard to begin to think about. The only reason I can begin to think about it is because I went through something as terrible and as horrific.?
?When you live in close quarters with people for 183 days and spring training, in a lot of ways baseball becomes your family,? Shapiro said. ?You lean on people more than you think. There are stronger leaders than you ever know and there?s greater comfort being with each other than with anyone else. It?s a reminder that the clubhouse is your home and the team is your family.?
?You tend to forget, particularly people watching from a distance, you tend to forget that these guys doing super-human things for three hours a day are just human beings, just people,? Shapiro said. ?Everybody probably goes home and pays a little more attention with their loved ones."
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/devastating-loss-marlins-jose-fernandez-felt-rogers-centre/
Kin
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Hey, you know what's mindblowingly stupid? Getting into fights against 4th place teams:
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17654126/joaquin-benoit-toronto-blue-jays-tears-calf-melee-vs-new-york-yankees
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17654126/joaquin-benoit-toronto-blue-jays-tears-calf-melee-vs-new-york-yankees
