Another Canadian Icon Traded - The 2015 Toronto Blue Jays Thread

Everyone's reaction on that sequence, from the fastball to Adam Jones reaction seems as normal as life.

i'm sorry i have brought agony unto the ILB blue jays thread where all the blue jays fans live

i will slink back to the orioles thread which is my home

where art thou jq higgins, i am so lonely in my thread house

the issue is that you can't talk like a grown up.

With the recent history, throwing behind Bautista is going to be assumed intentional in the heat of the moment.
Benefit of the doubt is removed and the glory of that game remains wholly intact. Suck it shitbirds.

damn shit got real intense itt

if we want to be all lawyerlike about things – what matters is that Bautista felt like he was being thrown at. and after everything that happened with O'Day and that entire game going poorly for the O's, it would be entirely reasonable thing to think if you're him. or a normal person.

otm

i would only say that while i don't much care for joey bats, if you don't like getting scored on at will, pitch better and field your position better and if you don't like having monster jacks hit off you, don't throw arrow straight fastballs down the middle of the plate.

the whole injuring (re-injuring) oneself on a throw to first? well...yeah.

lol is that what did it? jfc pull that shit when it's september and you're 15 games out not when the games still matter

the issue is that you can't talk like a grown up.

this whole conversation is just confounding ! ok, so bautista is paranoid and overemotional and assumes he was being thrown at despite every one of garcia's pitches missing by five miles. he then heroically throws a tantrum running the bases, acting more immaturely than pretty much every baseball player that's ever been thrown at intentionally, yelling shit into the faces of orioles players. and looking at replays it looks like he was actually shouting right at jones, not at flaherty, who was just in the way. this is all good and majestic and not at all babylike. but adam jones, who after markakis' departure is the closest thing the orioles have to a captain, decides to respond to the human yelling shit at him and maybe even stand up for the young green pitcher that shares his uniform, and for this he is both a monster and a balls-less pile of garbage, a true pussy-man who probably is a virgin

tbh this is dumb

sports

http://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2015/04/24/orioles-considered-boycotting-blue-jays-game-over-rogers-centre-turf-report.html

why does it take three years to put in grass?

because of the football team that still uses the stadium. once they're out – the grass is in. and also it was never designed with drainage in mind – so a lot of work under the structure needs to be done too.

o no where are the argos going

I think to BMO feild, where the soccer team (TFC) plays.

Sounds like it could take a little longer than when the argos leave

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/mlb/toronto-blue-jays-want-grass-in-the-rogers-centre-an-inside-look-at-the-difficult-growth-process-it-requires

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/is-the-new-turf-at-the-rogers-centre-really-a-problem/

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.@BlueJays grant LHP Ricky Romero his unconditional release.

wow. still rooting for the guy, with whatever he ends up doing

Don't despair--Buehrle goes tomorrow, so they'll win 17-8.

Down 5-0 in the 7th. The season has started to feel painfully mediocre.

The Toronto Blue Jays -- perfecting mediocrity since 1994.

ya. Rays always seem to kick then around for some reason.

dead last, per quite some distance, per team pitching fwar

jonah keri's weekly column gives a good summary of the orange birds-joey bats kerfuffle:

First, the right-hander fired a fastball that sailed behind Bautista, whizzing past his back. Then, four pitches later, Garcia challenged Bautista with another fastball — but this one tailed back over the middle of the plate, and Bautista crushed it to Saskatchewan. Then he stood and watched the ball clear the fence, flipped his bat dismissively, and began a slooooow trot toward home. As the Jays right fielder rounded the bases, O’s second baseman Ryan Flaherty yelled something, so Bautista yelled back. Adam Jones trotted in from center field and started yelling, too, so Bautista yelled back again. It was ridiculous, and it was glorious.

so flaherty said something first, rather than bats just yelling at him randomly in particular, then again i guess some would say keri is a canadian w/ no expos to cheer and must be showing bias to the guy on the canadian team lol

did anyone think Bats just started yelling at Flaherty for no reason? it was pretty obviously to me he was responding to something.

It seemed obvious to me Flaherty instigated.

It's gonna be a looong season with this bullpen :/

who'd have thought relying on two guys who are a year removed from teenagerdom would be a bumpy ride?!

i really wished they didn't trade for ra dickey, right now it would have been a nice collection of young up and coming players.

you got LOL'd by the Mets, eh?

i'm not a jays fan particulary, i just happen to live in Canada so i hear about them slightly more, i actually prefer the mets, it's just that the trade seems really really dumb at the moment

both of those "win now" trades are pretty easy to hate when... nobody won now

can't wait to see the comparative numbers for these players in 5 years... buerhle/reyes (and I guess bonifacio/johnson) VS. hechavarria/marisnick/alvarez/desclafini, and dickey/thole vs. d'arnaud/syndergaard/hell-even-john-buck-did-something

they have a nice collection of young up-and-coming players!

but imagine + d'arnaud/syndergaard/marisnick/alvarez/hechavarria

i dunno -- several of those guys have had hot starts this year, but hechavarria is a 26yo with a career war of zero, marisnick has a career opb of .284, tough to judge syndergaard in a place like las vegas but he's more likely to turn into kyle drabek than matt harvey

they made a win-now move that didn't pan out, but it wasn't a disaster and they were working with pretty remarkable depth. norris/sanchez/pompey/travis is a young core that most teams would like to have

i believe in marisnick still. having a very good start this season.

but you are right!

a bunch of prospects that never was will always be more romantic than grizzled veterans.

norris optioned

sad. but we're adding yet another canadian!

he needs some triple a

apparently so does Pompey.

pitching continues to be disastrous

I'll be in T.O. at the end of May, is anyone up for catching a game? They play the Mariners on May 22,23,24, and the White Sox on May 25,26,27.

YES! haven't seen you in forever.

where do you live xp?

May be in Toronto in late may myself.

nice! we should just fly Ned in at this point, then.

Room at the inn for one more?

^^^stable