GDT(4/4): Tampa Bay Rays @ Your Toronto Blue Jays - Archer vs. Sanchez - 7:07 PM ET

[Spanky99]

P.S. Don't know who invented 1 base, think they did, but absolutely awesome game.

[Spanky99]

I have played with/learned the game from World Series champions, current and former major league players and coaches, and few current minor leaguers. I have more knowledge of the game...playing and managing then you can imagine.

 

Hope your not referencing me...you don't know me, so I hope you would be more mature than that

 

This guy, yes.

[Spanky99]

All kidding aside, sure you might know someone, but you're still dumn, IMO.

[Zaun of the Dead]

I do not understand this message board at all.

 

s***** series.

[Daniel Labude]

What proof do you want...cause unlike you I have learned from actual major leaguers that there are many ways to play the game...meaning you don't s*** on others opinions about the game. You gather knowledge and possibly learn, obviously you are the type of person who swings at a 2 strike slider every f***ing time

[Daniel Labude]

All kidding aside, sure you might know someone, but you're still dumn, IMO.

 

Your entitled to your opinion

[Spanky99]

Your entitled to your opinion

 

As are you. It's a message board after all.

[Spanky99]

What proof do you want...cause unlike you I have learned from actual major leaguers that there are many ways to play the game...meaning you don't s*** on others opinions about the game. You gather knowledge and possibly learn, obviously you are the type of person who swings at a 2 strike slider every f***ing time

 

This holds very little merit, or water, if you will.

[Spanky99]

This game was lost by Pillar and Loup.

[Spanky99]

What proof do you have? Show the money.

 

*crickets*

[Governator]

What proof do you want...cause unlike you I have learned from actual major leaguers that there are many ways to play the game...meaning you don't s*** on others opinions about the game. You gather knowledge and possibly learn, obviously you are the type of person who swings at a 2 strike slider every f***ing time

 

Oh there you are learning from the bestest.

 

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/tor/images/y2015/baseball_academy/honda_super_camps_649x250.jpg

[o2cui2i]

This game was lost by Pillar and Loup.

 

I'd throw some credit at the heart of the lineup. bases loaded no one out.... 1 run.

[o2cui2i]

Oh there you are learning from the bestest.

 

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/tor/images/y2015/baseball_academy/honda_super_camps_649x250.jpg

 

anyone can pay to go to camps. They are cool and you get lots of good info from players, umps, league admins. you can even grab a few autographs, but it really doesn't help you are a player. Most of the help is good for your ball organization. teaching coaches how to work with players, how to deal with umps, umps how to deal players... some great workshops. I've been to a few, but It game me zero baseball skill, but since it was mid January it made me miss baseball and get back at indoor work. no outisde work here until very late march if you are lucky. I can remember playing on a field that was still frozen solid in the start of april... about a million years ago.

 

no state of the art facilities here. we had a gym with weight room, incling running machines, stationary bikes, rowing machines and a 70 ft long hall we could warm up our arms. Pitchers had to start in the hall to get their 60'6". it work.... 25 years ago... time flies.

[Spanky99]

Yeah, disappointing, regardless in the 8th and 9th. Archer was dominant.

[baubau]

I'd throw some credit at the heart of the lineup. bases loaded no one out.... 1 run.

 

Pretty much this. If your 2-5 go 1-9 then you have issue. This has been too much of a hot/cold lineup, very inconsistent. They are extremely lucky one game, terribly unlucky the second. I am still upset at Gibbons subbing in Navarro for Smoak. Worrying that it will be a constant throughout the year. f*** AA just dump him for a all you can eat greek coupon already.

[Daniel Labude]

*crickets*

 

I'm sending you a PM.

[Spanky99]

anyone can pay to go to camps. They are cool and you get lots of good info from players, umps, league admins. you can even grab a few autographs, but it really doesn't help you are a player. Most of the help is good for your ball organization. teaching coaches how to work with players, how to deal with umps, umps how to deal players... some great workshops. I've been to a few, but It game me zero baseball skill, but since it was mid January it made me miss baseball and get back at indoor work. no outisde work here until very late march if you are lucky. I can remember playing on a field that was still frozen solid in the start of april... about a million years ago.

 

no state of the art facilities here. we had a gym with weight room, incling running machines, stationary bikes, rowing machines and a 70 ft long hall we could warm up our arms. Pitchers had to start in the hall to get their 60'6". it work.... 25 years ago... time flies.

 

You're talking about 25 years ago in Canada? Not Sweden now, correct?

[Spanky99]

I'm sending you a PM.

 

Why?

[Daniel Labude]

Why?

Just giving you information

[o2cui2i]

You're talking about 25 years ago in Canada? Not Sweden now, correct?

 

25 years ago in sweden.

[Spanky99]

25 years ago in sweden.

 

lol...when are their players ever relevant?

[Spanky99]

Just giving you information

 

Well, it was useless as mine, on the board. Nothing changes.

[fatcowxlive]

Wow getting banned is no fun. What an empty feeling that was.

 

You're back!!! I was wondering where you went lol

[MatBarnes]

So I noticed Martin is at -2 in framing strikes.

[Atothe]

Well, it's obviously not coincidence. Good pitchers are better than bad pitchers lol. Just one of those series where things don't go well. Throw Martin, Bautista, Donaldson, Reyes and EE into a lineup with decent peripheral guys like Pillar, Travis, and Smoak and this lineup is going to look like a murderer's row for stretches this year against even the leagues' best arms. Maybe it's easier for me to see it when I don't really care how they do and am not feeling down after a rough series.

 

You seem so sensible for a rays fan. Beat it

[Frenchsoup]

So I noticed Martin is at -2 in framing strikes.

 

Because of Dickey bro

[Horses Fart]

Braves next up.. don't be fooled by their record. The're not a good team.. our defense is a lot better than the Mets and Marlins is, who they just played.

 

U won't say this come Sunday when we're probably about to be swept by them. The Jays are deflated right now so let's hope we can turn it around!

[glory]

I have officially changed my stance on managers. They do matter.

 

Jays down by 3. They have 2 runners on with 2 out and the tying run at the plate. Justin Smoak is up. Jays need a 3 run HR badly and Smoak has power. So what does Sling Blade do? Remove Smoak for Navarro. Against a righty. Navarro can't hit righties. Then in the 9th inning, instead of having Navarro ready to pinch hit for Goins, all he has is Tolleson (who can't hit righties) so Goins has to bat for himself.

 

Gibbons has been holding this team back for 10 years. Gaston and Farrell barely had a cup of coffee here. It's been practically 70% of Gibbons for a f***in decade. No wonder this team is trash despite having a good roster.

[RealAccountant]

I have officially changed my stance on managers. They do matter.

 

Jays down by 3. They have 2 runners on with 2 out and the tying run at the plate. Justin Smoak is up. Jays need a 3 run HR badly and Smoak has power. So what does Sling Blade do? Remove Smoak for Navarro. Against a righty. Navarro can't hit righties. Then in the 9th inning, instead of having Navarro ready to pinch hit for Goins, all he has is Tolleson (who can't hit righties) so Goins has to bat for himself.

 

Gibbons has been holding this team back for 10 years. Gaston and Farrell barely had a cup of coffee here. It's been practically 70% of Gibbons for a f***in decade. No wonder this team is trash despite having a good roster.

 

If Smoak has power, he has yet to show it an a Jays uniform

[TRM]

If Smoak has power, he has yet to show it an a Jays uniform

 

18 ABs is nothing.

 

20 dingers in 130 games in the AL west is legit pop.