Stroman out, Encarnacion is hurting, RIP 2015 Blue Jays.
At least it wasn't an arm injury, I guess.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
I was aghast when I heard it was a bunting drill--for what, in preparation for the World Series?--but he was of course fielding bunts. I don't know if the year's a write-off or not. 15 wins/20-25 quality starts would have been a good year. That second number will be hard to pull out of thin air.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
kyle drabek is ready for his closeup
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
I don't get some of the outrage over how he was hurt. like baseball players shouldnt be practicing baseball.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
First and last time I'll ever be able to say this: a kid I used to coach (Darren Shred) is playing in today's Jays vs. Junior National Team game.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2015_03_15_cannae_tormlb_1&mode=gameday&c_id=tor
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
looks like he might have done ok vs Dickey?!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
I didn't see it, but the play-by-play says he grounded out to third.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 March 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/blue-jays-of-kevin-pillar-says-oblique-straining-sneeze-not-a-big-deal-1.2996194
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Monday, 16 March 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
randy wolf, minor league deal
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
delabar mad
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
kyle drabek is ready for his closeup― mookieproof, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:54 PM (2 weeks ago)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:54 PM (2 weeks ago)
claimed off waivers by the white sox
/tinstaapp
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 March 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DickeyMartin1.gif
good luck russell martin
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
doug mirabelli is available
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
i very much enjoyed that 3rd inning. glad i was able to catch it over my lunch break!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 April 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
xp he's not that far from canada tbh http://www.cbgreatlakes.com/doug.mirabelli
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 6 April 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
they can pick him up in a helicopter and close all the lanes to the stadium like the red sox did during the great mirabelli airlift of 2007 or whenever that was
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 6 April 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Should be Dalton Pompey's AB track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5isaB32QA
tagada tagada voila les Daltons
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 6 April 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Devon Travis hitting his first big league HR!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 6 April 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
Aand the 20 year old is now the closer.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 April 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
Gotta be more specific ;') The other 20yo, Osuna pitched the highest leverage index in that game, which was a bit nail-bitey. Norris better get those pitches down in the zone, he's hanging a lot of shit up there
― francisF, Friday, 10 April 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
i think he started tiring when his pitch count got into the 90s and those two balls left the park. from what i saw he was looking good up until then.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 April 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Travis is also looking pretty impressive so far.
where is the LOVE for kevin pillar
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
i keep wanting to pronounce it "Pilash" like that guy what used to be on the Leafs.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 April 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad re: Norris. Admittedly I just watched the condensed game and everything looked up.This team is super excitingI've always meant to post this; Pillar reminds of this guy every time i look at him:https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/kidnapped.jpg
― francisF, Saturday, 11 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
HA HAHhaahaa
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 11 April 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah saunders definitely gonna have to fight to get back the starters job, pillar two nice grabs and a jack today (plus a k with the bags loaded)
― dutch_justice, Sunday, 12 April 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
both those catches were crazy. one might have saved the game. an occasional game at DH for Saunders or Bautista probably won't be terrible, with the turf and all.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 April 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
What's gotten into Pillar? Yesterday's catch was ridiculous.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
i was at the game and everyone there lost their minds that catch was so ludicrous
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
A grade 8 student at my school (really nice girl, fantastic baseball player) was sitting with Joe Carter at the game the other night. (Not sure why--with her rep team, probably.) She brought back autographed baseballs for four of us, and also got to wear one of Carter's WS rings for a photo.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 April 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
*JEALOUS*!!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 April 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/one-week-with-kevin-pillar
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
Jose Reyes is hurt.
― Andy K, Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
The shitheel Baltimore Orioles, a living, breathing, 25-man avatar for the pile of human garbage posing as their manager, Buck Showalter, got their shit-brains knocked out, metaphorically, by the Toronto Blue Jays tonight, and so like so many petty losers before them, decided to try and actually get physical with the Jays....
http://andrewstoeten.com/2015/04/21/jays-take-out-the-trash-13-6-game-fourteen-thoughts/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
that entire game last night was insane. Encarnacion hit it into the 500s with his 2nd hr of the game – Pilar made what might have been his most unthinkable catch to date and then, amazingly, doubled up the runner – Dionner Navarro hit a triple – and then they stupidly throw behind Bautista, AGAIN, who proceeds to launch one out of the park, AGAIN, admiring his work as long as possible before calling whoever their 2b is a bitch on his way around the bases – Adman Jones decides that all this has somehow hurt his feelings
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
The Pillar double play was pretty outstanding.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2/1/6/119691216/042115_tor_bautista_homer_med_sszl49l0.gif
twice in one AB, bautista puts up the most badass face i have seen in baseball in years. if any clip ever required a thug life meme treatment...
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Pillar always makes these catches with six run leads. That dude is intense, he never lets up for a second.
Batista's HR left the park in a HURRY.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
unlike his departure from the batters box!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
i try to watch every 2 or 3 three games – will def be tuning in for the next two.
Buehrle's pitching okay--almost like his whole career in miniature--but wow, is he leading a charmed life. 12, 12, and 13 runs; that must be some kind of a record to start a season.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
(Run support, I meant to say.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
good lord edwin's homer
also yeah, fuck the orioles
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
anyone who thinks garcia threw at him intentionally is a fucking idiot
― qualx, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
doesn't matter in the least
you don't get to throw behind a guy, accident or not, in a seven-run game and get pissy when he pimped his subsequent homer
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
xp and even if he did, showalter would've had nothing to do with it. i'm not a showalter-worshipper or even apologist in some cases, but he has a reputation for not condoning throwing at people
― qualx, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
"You throw at me, I’m not going to forget. And if I get you right after, then I’m going to enjoy it and I did.”
"He admired his shot, flipped his bat, shouted at second baseman Ryan Flaherty, glared at the dung piles in the Orioles dugout, then celebrated with his teammates like the ball he knocked out of the yard (again) had been hit directly into the souls of the cheapjack little shits who threw at him for no good goddamned reason."
it seems like it matters if it was an accident or not
― qualx, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
literally that entire embarrassing blog is whining that the o's threw at poor delicate prince jose
― qualx, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
whether it was intentional or not, he actually *did* get thrown at
in a situation in which an otherwise useless rule 5 pick might very well want to make friends
bautista's slow pace is his reward for standing in there and fucking turning a 3-1 pitch from the guy that threw behind him around. nothing he did threatened anything except poor adam jones' pride. suck it up and win the next night
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh please:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball
I suspect half the reason people my age remember Gossage so well is because of the flair and colour he brought to the game--he was a character. I know I've said that walk-off bedlam for a meaningless game in June can be a bit much, but the bat-flip game wasn't that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
worst thing about north american sports in general and baseball in particular: old white guys getting mad at non-whites for being insufficiently reticent.
someone started a new thread:
In the Unlikely Event Drew Hutchison Posts a Sub-5.00 ERA, How Will You React? (Toronto Blue Jays 2016)
― uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Yes, someone...I thought I was on the new one, oops.
You're right--I didn't even mention the underlying racial implications. I don't know much about Gossage the person, so it's not an accusation, but you can't avoid acknowledging that. Anyway, Bautista handled it well, and I like the Harper quote in there.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
haha hadn't noticed you were the thread starter on the other one
― uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link