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Edited October 24, 20196 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Well, if you like watching sports with a playoff feel every night for 3 months, you can't do better than being a Blue Jays fan right now.

Fun times.  Can't wait for the "soft part" of the schedule to start.

13 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

Well, if you like watching sports with a playoff feel every night for 3 months, you can't do better than being a Blue Jays fan right now.

Fun times.  Can't wait for the "soft part" of the schedule to start.

need the M's to start dropping some games. Frig. Big win vs O's last night... need to string together a bunch like that. 

17 minutes ago, Noeller said:

need the M's to start dropping some games. Frig. Big win vs O's last night... need to string together a bunch like that. 

Seattle's in their "soft part" of the sched, but full credit for the win streak.  At least Texas and Houston are fading and the Yanks are out of the picture.

All I can say is what took them so long, the guy gets hurt by just putting his jersey on and can't hit worth a damn, even his fielding was terrible this year. Oh well 31 games left in a terrible season, might be time to see some changes for both manager and GM.

 

10 hours ago, bustamente said:

All I can say is what took them so long, the guy gets hurt by just putting his jersey on and can't hit worth a damn, even his fielding was terrible this year. Oh well 31 games left in a terrible season, might be time to see some changes for both manager and GM.

 

And to think he was getting like 20 million per season !    

On 2023-08-30 at 12:35 AM, Brandon said:

And to think he was getting like 20 million per season !    

What is the opposite of "Moneyball"?

On 2023-08-30 at 12:35 AM, Brandon said:

And to think he was getting like 20 million per season !    

Future AZ Coyotes player.

2 hours ago, Wideleft said:

What is the opposite of "Moneyball"?

The New York Yankees.

Yankees waived CF Harrison Bader yesterday he was claimed, great defensively, so so at the plate, injuries followed him around. His future replacement "the Martian" Jasson Dominguez hit a home run against Justin Verlander in his first at bat.

Aaron Judge fastest player to 250 home runs in 810 games, enjoy and your welcome

 

Julio Urias arrested on a felony domestic violence charge his second in four years, this is how you destroy your career. 20 games for the last arrest even though he was not charged going to be many more this time around. 

I was really enjoying the Martian's start to his MLB career, to bad that he is done for the season and need Tommy John surgery. So it's going to be a while until he tries to resume his career in MLB

1 minute ago, bigg jay said:

OMG. I was there last month for his jersey retirement. It was so great to see him again. I hope he can fully recover and get back on the field. 

Classic example of a dude who believed his own hype and was way over rated especially by media in Toronto.

 

Ohtani is going to get a huge contract might even be the richest in baseball history , but it has to be buyer beware with him especially if he decides he wants to continue being an every day player and pitch every 6 days, it's going to shorten his career.

Just an update on Ohtani, his massive payday may have to wait as he might he ready to hit at the beginning of next season and pitch in '25 after elbow surgery.

Blue jays holding on to WC2, they finally lost last night, good streak tho.

Wildcard spot

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/tim-wakefield-winner-of-two-world-series-titles-with-red-sox-dies-at-age-57/

 

Jays headed to Minnesota for the WC series. I don't know enough to know if Toronto has a shot here. I know the Central is a weak division, but I also know the Jays are wildly streaky. 

Twins have not won a post season series in 19 years. They are pretty much clones of each really good pitching staffs streaky hitting. 

The Jays have among the best starting rotation, a beefed up bullpen and one of the best defenses in baseball.  Starting to see a few more long balls and timely hitting lately.  The only thing that scares me is middle relief, but hopefully Gausman, Bassitt and Berrios can render that concern moot.

It would help immensely to get some runs scored in the first 3 innnings.

33 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

The Jays have among the best starting rotation, a beefed up bullpen and one of the best defenses in baseball.  Starting to see a few more long balls and timely hitting lately.  The only thing that scares me is middle relief, but hopefully Gausman, Bassitt and Berrios can render that concern moot.

It would help immensely to get some runs scored in the first 3 innnings.

Last I heard, Kikuchi was gonna be used outta the pen as well which could help.

If they can get the bars going, they have the D side of things covered...

7 hours ago, Wideleft said:

The Jays have among the best starting rotation, a beefed up bullpen and one of the best defenses in baseball.  Starting to see a few more long balls and timely hitting lately.  The only thing that scares me is middle relief, but hopefully Gausman, Bassitt and Berrios can render that concern moot.

It would help immensely to get some runs scored in the first 3 innnings.

They have six quality bullpen arms that can get them all the innings the need to cover.