Whose Baseball Team Is This? (2009 Blue Jays Thread)

i like how every comment is at least a paragraph of "wtf are you thinking?!"

According to BP's playoff odds report, the Jays have a 77% chance of making the playoffs, as of today.

Whatever, it's only the middle of May, but still: WOWOWYESYESYES

sweet!

I think those Odds Reports are awfully dicey til August.

The simulations are based purely on third-order winning %age, which is definitely skewed when the contenders' schedules differ so much this early in the season (i.e. Jays haven't played many games against other AL East teams).

More significantly, the Jays are currently six games up on the wildcard, which isn't tiny, even in May. Unfortunately, the wildcard will almost certainly come out of the AL East this year, so again it always comes back to intra-division games.

so going into the Boston series it is impossible for the J's to drop out of 1st place plating them. even if they get swept they will still be in first! :D

that does not mean it is ok to get swept tho.

so someone had to pay for that Boston series.

those people are: Travis Snyder, Brett Cecil & Robby Ray. rip

Cecil isn't allowed to have a bad game, I guess.

i was suprised at first.
i guess it makes sense tho. he's so young and only recently went from a closer to a starter. they said at the onset of the season they had no plans for cecil to play in the majors before sept - he was only up on account of all the injuries. keeping him up probably risked alot of things going wrong.

Bummed to see my AL ROY selection Snider get sent down.

Fucking hell, I jinxed the team with my posts earlier in the week.

Why was Halladay pulled in a scoreless game after 95 pitches??

pinch hitter?
looking at the box score when i got in last night was a heart breaker.

Oh right, duh. NL parks.

This is why not having the DH is dumb!

ha ha! not the other way around, eh?!

also: Janssen makes his return today! :D

let us hope Jah is kind to him.

$#@*&^%#$%$#

What the &%*# is going on with this team?? 8-3 in the 8th with Halladay pitching, and now it's 8-8 and heading to extras? I might have jinxed the living hell out of them last week but still, this is getting out of hand.

UUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

$#@*&^%#$%$#

think i'm starting to understand why Morbs is so curmudgeonly all the time.

Cito Gaston has never managed the Mets

i'm not sure - do you mean that would be good; or horrible?

"Good" and "Cito Gaston" shouldn't appear in the same sentence, unless that sentence is "it would be good if Cito Gaston was walking to the ballpark one day and was kidnapped and thrown in a freezer by the staff of East Side Mario's."

he plays the same 9 guys every single day, right? A medical impossibility w/ the Mets.

ha hahahhahhahaaa! east side marios?! ha ha ha!

We have those over here.

no mater what happens the rest of this game - the J's can at least be proud of having ended Greinke's no-hr streak!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9hRCthV8E

TORONTO (AP)—Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios(notes) apologized Friday after he was caught on video yelling profanities at a fan.
The incident, which was posted on YouTube, happened Thursday night as Rios was leaving a gala dinner for the Blue Jays’ charity.
Rios is seen walking to his car along with a woman after the event when he appears to ignore an autograph request from a young fan. An older man yells at Rios, saying “The way you played today Alex, you should be lucky somebody wants your autograph.”
Rios responds with a profanity, then swears again after the fan calls him “a bum.”
Rios struck out five times in five at-bats in a 6-5 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday. He matched a club record by striking out in seven consecutive at-bats and is 0 for his last 10.
He apologized before batting practice for Friday’s game against Kansas City, saying “I lost my cool.”
“I just want to apologize for the situation that happened yesterday at the gala,” Rios said. “I just want to apologize to my fans, to the team, to my teammates, because it was something I should have never done. It was a bad reaction on my side.”
“That’s not the person that I am,” he said. “You shouldn’t act like that, even if there’s sites like that or people following you, trying to make you say bad things, you shouldn’t act like that.”
Rios acknowledged that frustration with his poor performance Thursday led to the incident.
“It was a long day,” Rios said. “I kicked myself, I couldn’t help the team win. It was just bad.”
Rios is batting .266 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs for Toronto, which had lost 12 of 15 to fall from first to third in the AL East.

4 K's is a golden sombrero. What's 5?

Platinum

This is a video response to Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter's wife gets deserved welcome!!

Oh man, that's not even his first platinum sombrero

rios otm

and they say no one here follows baseball!

has Roy assumed Cy frontrunner position?

i don't think so. it's still whats-his-name in KC.

for now.

BLUE JAYS STARTER ROY HALLADAY LEFT THE GAME IN THE TOP OF THE 4TH INNING AFTER SUFFERING A MUSCLE INJURY IN HIS RIGHT GROIN.

;_;

i'm starting to think Cito could indeed be an idiot /Downs

Pitcher or syndrome?

lol pitcher

LHP Scott Downs sprained his left big toe coming out of the batter's box Tuesday night. Downs will go on the disabled list Thursday. "That's what happens," Gaston said. "My guys don't take batting practice every day and they don't run, so things like this are going to happen."

The closer of the American League team you manage does not take batting practice or run windsprints? That's weird.

(Cannot fucking BELIEVE that quote.)

OF Vernon Wells blew his grill out pitching Tuesday night. Wells will go on the disabled list Thursday. "That's what happens," Gaston said. My guys don't throw off the mound every day and they don't stretch with the pitchers, so things like this are going to happen."

tied for the AL wild card!!!

what are they WEARING?

whoops, didnt realize both teams were wearing those hideous hats

also the fan umpires are back!!!! <3 <3 <3

jays stockpile of at least capable arms is amazing -

Rzepczynski will be the 12th starter for the Blue Jays this season and the fifth to make his major league debut

aside from walking everybody - he did pretty good!