GDT (1/5 if necessary): Rangers @ Blue Jays [Gallardo v Price] Oct 8 - 3:37 pm

[Followthelight]

These are professional athletes. They work what? 30 hours a week for 8 months of the year playing baseball? There is no excuse for them to need that much rest at the end of the season when something was on the line.

 

BWHAHAHAHA wow you are so incredibly ignorant....

[ComeTogether]

Must win next game. Have to get to Hammels. That guy won world series w Phillies.

[BTS]

Yes they are by a good margin....imo. Rangers are prob the most dangerous team in the AL now.

 

I just don't see it. They have one good starter, and that starter isn't even as good as Price or Keuchel.

[Krylian]

How much does anyone opinion here actual influence what the Jays ultimately do

 

It has complete impact if you read all the karma bologna in the threads around here.

[polar bear]

Tomorrow is the season, that's all there is too it.

 

Well,at least we have our true Ace going tomorrow,and if we can (eventually)find a way to hit decent

pitching,I'm pretty sure we will go to Texas tied 1-1.

[Baseball Player]

Stopped reading after bolded.

 

Name another time smart guy that a team had a chance to clinch homefield through the whole playoffs and said nahh it's not that important?

[thatoneguy]

Are we really still bitching about the clinching/double-header decisions? It was not a badly handled situation.

 

All of this is both unnecessary looking for excuses and using hindsight as the only tool in the box.

[Daniel Labude]

Irrelevant question to this discussion.

 

No one on this board can tell gibby what to do or AA, so I can give my opinion freely. I don't care how many people value it. I have a different opinion, what's the big deal

[Followthelight]

I just don't see it. They have one good starter, and that starter isn't even as good as Price or Keuchel.

 

Yet we are down 1-0 with their best pitcher going tomorrow...

[Baseball Player]

BWHAHAHAHA wow you are so incredibly ignorant....

 

Standing around during BP isnt working.

[Stangstag]

I just don't see it. They have one good starter, and that starter isn't even as good as Price or Keuchel.

 

They've been hot lately, and that's all that mattersin the playoffs. I said it last week, the Rangers are the only AL team i'm scared of right now.

 

If the Jays can get past the rangers, I think they make it to the WS.

[Stangstag]

I'd like to repeat:

 

Cardinals came back from a 1-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Giants came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Cardinals came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2011 NLDS

[thatoneguy]

Name another time smart guy that a team had a chance to clinch homefield through the whole playoffs and said nahh it's not that important?

 

The only situation that probably should've been handled differently is how Buehrle's 200 inning threshold was reached. We lost because of an Osuna blown save in the second game of the Tampa series and won the first in a comeback after being down 3.

[Followthelight]

Standing around during BP isnt working.

 

Yeah that's all they do ...lol.

[Daniel Labude]

I'd like to repeat:

 

Cardinals came back from a 1-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Giants came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Cardinals came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2011 NLDS

 

NL teams, any AL examples?

[Baseball Player]

Are we really still bitching about the clinching/double-header decisions? It was not a badly handled situation.

 

All of this is both unnecessary looking for excuses and using hindsight as the only tool in the box.

 

It's not hindsight for me. I said it was dumb then and it's looking to be dumb now.

[thatoneguy]

It's not hindsight for me. I said it was dumb then and it's looking to be dumb now.

 

Being "right" for the wrong reasons isn't much better.

[Krylian]

I'd like to repeat:

 

Cardinals came back from a 1-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Giants came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Cardinals came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2011 NLDS

 

What does that have to do with the 2015 Jays?

 

If the Jays are going to win this series they need to play like they can. Today they didn't. Stro will have to control his emotions and work down in the zone. If he can do that, and throw strikes, he'll be effective. Hamels will be tough...but if they don't try to rip for the fences they'll get to him.

[Candy Maldonado]

NL teams, any AL examples?

 

lol you serious?

[intentional wok]

Are we really still bitching about the clinching/double-header decisions? It was not a badly handled situation.

 

All of this is both unnecessary looking for excuses and using hindsight as the only tool in the box.

 

Donaldson, Bautista, and Beltre all suffered injuries in conditions that are pretty much optimal for a world class baseball game.

 

That double-header and follow-up game were injuries waiting to happen. The conditions were awful.

 

Not to mention they affect nothing, there's no way to guarantee a win against any team (especially a team good enough to make the postseason), and the Astros are not a better matchup.

 

The Rangers match up pretty good against the Jays. It's a fact. That's it. It doesn't mean they're going to be lifting their skirts, ffs.

 

Can't believe what I'm reading from some people. It's even more abstract than after any other loss in the middle of the summer.

[Stangstag]

What does that have to do with the 2015 Jays?

 

If the Jays are going to win this series they need to play like they can. Today they didn't. Stro will have to control his emotions and work down in the zone. If he can do that, and throw strikes, he'll be effective. Hamels will be tough...but if they don't try to rip for the fences they'll get to him.

 

Dude they were fine today. Rangers got lucky and Price was bad. Thats it. They'll come back and win tomorrow.

[Daniel Labude]

lol you serious?

 

What, I am curious. What's wrong with that?

[EMK19]

NL teams, any AL examples?

 

Posted it earlier, but yes, the 2011 Tigers. Oakland also came back from being down 1-0 to go ahead 2-1, though they lost the series.

 

That's only from recent memory, I'm sure there are more.

[jaysfan2014]

I'd like to repeat:

 

Cardinals came back from a 1-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Giants came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2012 NLDS

 

Cardinals came back from a 2-0 series defecit in 2011 NLDS

 

Exactly. And Texas's rotation drops off after Gallardo. Hamels has been awful vs. the Jays, Perez is mediocre, and we've clobbered Holland/Lewis.

[bluejays12]

That is going to be tough to do against Hamels.

[comeon sense]

NL teams, any AL examples?

2004 Redsox over the Yankees,after tailing 3-0.

[Krylian]

Being "right" for the wrong reasons isn't much better.

 

Baseball players are creatures of habit and rhythm. There was a risk that those last few games would throw them out of their rhythm a bit. Are they out of their rhythm (Price with 11 days off) or is it just a bad game? Don't know. No one here does.

[BTS]

Exactly. And Texas's rotation drops off after Gallardo. Hamels has been awful vs. the Jays, Perez is mediocre, and we've clobbered Holland/Lewis.

 

lol @ Hamels being a step down from Gallardo

[Followthelight]

Pete Rose is an idiot.

[thatoneguy]

Baseball players are creatures of habit and rhythm. There was a risk that those last few games would throw them out of their rhythm a bit. Are they out of their rhythm (Price with 11 days off) or is it just a bad game? Don't know. No one here does.

 

Talking about the double-header handling here.

 

Exactly. And Texas's rotation drops off after Gallardo. Hamels has been awful vs. the Jays, Perez is mediocre, and we've clobbered Holland/Lewis.

 

Please stop.