Another Canadian Icon Traded - The 2015 Toronto Blue Jays Thread

i was at the game and everyone there lost their minds that catch was so ludicrous

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.

*JEALOUS*!!

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/one-week-with-kevin-pillar

Jose Reyes is hurt.

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/

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

The Pillar double play was pretty outstanding.

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...

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.

unlike his departure from the batters box!

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.

(Run support, I meant to say.)

good lord edwin's homer

also yeah, fuck the orioles

anyone who thinks garcia threw at him intentionally is a fucking idiot

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

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

"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

literally that entire embarrassing blog is whining that the o's threw at poor delicate prince jose

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

or don't

"in a situation in which an otherwise useless rule 5 pick might very well want to make friends"

so you're... saying he did it on purpose

bautista's trot went beyond celebration, he shouted shit at ryan flaherty (?) and glared into the dugout like, idk, a dude trying to start or escalate shit, what do you expect the opposing team to say? "oh, well it was clearly an accident but jose's totally right to try to instigate a fight with our entire team, what a guy"

A FASTBALL WAS LITERALLY THROWN AT BAUTISTA

and then holy shit BAUTISTA MADE THREATENING NOISES and RAN TOO SLOWLY

literally you are whining that bautista ran too slow and yelled words at the poor delicate orioles

grow the fuck up (and don't take opposing teams' fanblogs so seriously)

it seems like it sounds really scary to you but baseball players literally get baseballs thrown at them

it is a part of their job

HBPs happen all the time every day

a pitch to the torso isn't going to kill the poor puppy

i don't like that baseball is full of etiquette but it... is and there's no reason for jones to not call him out for acting like a pissbaby

i'm just having a lot of trouble understanding how responding to an accident by purposely trying to escalate shit is understandable but verbally responding to that escalation isn't

in baseball, as in life, not everyone can have the last word

the orioles threw at former pirate legend j. bautista. his response, which i can well imagine every other player in baseball truly cherishing, was to crush a homer and make sure the guys who threw at him knew he enjoyed it.

action followed by reaction. even! tip yr cap, move on and maybe you can trot a little slower on your next homer

this is the thing with the royals, too. lawrie slid hard, maybe dirty, and took out esky. so the royals drilled lawrie and to his credit he ran to first. action-reaction. you do not, however, get to keep throwing at lawrie for the rest of his career.

baltimore got the first shot and bautista's response was stronger. sometimes you just get beat and need to recognize it.

and that is entirely setting aside the fact that fastballs injure bodies while slow trots injure fee-fees

idk craig biggio spent an entire career getting hit by fastballs and didn't shout spittle at opposing 2Bs when they missed

you started out saying it doesn't matter if it was intentional or not and everything you've said since implies that it was, so why not just say that it does matter to you

bc if it was an accident -- and, if you've seen any of jason garcia's other pitches you'd know it was -- what you have is a large baby overreacting to not even getting hit in one of the safest spots to get hit, and then adam jones responding to a large baby who is acting more immaturely than the average baseball player by like fifty standard deviations

like i said i wish baseball wasn't all etiquette but relative to everyone else in the league he was being absolutely ridiculous

Bautista enjoyed his home run after he thought he'd been thrown at. Get the fuck over it. He flipped a bat and glared at some guys. Big fucking deal. Boo hoo. Grow a fucking pair. 90% of the baseball world seems fine with Bautista's reaction - Jones needs to be a big boy and realize that. You'd think he was the one getting thrown at for all his pissing and moaning.

He didn't charge the mound, no one threw at Jones in retaliation. Get over it and move on.

lol

want 2 find a gif of bautista literally screaming shit at o's on the field and put it next to bj's fans whining that jones is acting like a baby by responding and not, like, hanging his head down and kicking dirt

Big fucking deal. Boo hoo. Grow a fucking pair.

great post good job

hey qualx can you gtfo thanks bud

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.