Jays @ Royals Game 3 August 7th

[Boxcar]

How many times must I shame people for this s***?

[Governator]

How long did this f***ing amber alert discussion go on for?

 

A few posts, then I waited till after the game to reply back.

[o2cui2i]

Jays averaging 2.4 runs per game over the last eight games.

 

there have been boat loads of ugly swings since the all star break.

[glory]

I stopped holding my breath waiting for the Orioles to collapse weeks ago. Would be great to see it happen but I'm no longer expecting it.

 

Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, and Miley is good enough with their offense and bullpen. Those bastards are like the Giants as far as their evened year success (minus the rings). The Red Sox are probably more likely to fall off than Baltimore.

[HERPDERP]

Orioles are for real. get over yourselves folks.

 

They are a superior team to the Jays in every facet except starting pitching. And their pitching is good enough.

[GD]

Orioles are for real. get over yourselves folks.

 

They are a superior team to the Jays in every facet except starting pitching. And their pitching is good enough.

 

#analysis

[RealAccountant]

Orioles are for real. get over yourselves folks.

 

They are a superior team to the Jays in every facet except starting pitching. And their pitching is good enough.

 

You mean they are superior in every way but the most important way?

[Brownie19]

Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, and Miley is good enough with their offense and bullpen. Those bastards are like the Giants as far as their evened year success (minus the rings). The Red Sox are probably more likely to fall off than Baltimore.

 

Are they going to cap Bundy's innings at all?

 

He threw 105 in 2012 and all of 65 between 2013 and 2015, including all of 24 last year...He's at 65 now. If he starts the rest of the year, he'll be up around 120 going into the playoffs. He's clearly their x-factor right now and they may not have a choice but to ride him. I also can't believe Guasman isn't better than he is.

[G-Snarls]

Orioles are for real. get over yourselves folks.

 

They are a superior team to the Jays in every facet except starting pitching. And their pitching is good enough.

 

Jays have better SP even with Bundy factored in

 

Jays have marginally better defence (? Tough call. Both teams have some very good defenders, but we probably have more of them and in more key positions especially C and CF)

 

Offensees are probably almost equally excellent, though it FEELS like ours SHOULD be better. Trumbo is outperforming and we have several guys having oddly below career years all at once. Any given year I think Jays would score more runs if luck equals out.

 

Edit: Jays have scored more runs than the Orioles this year already. I wasn't sure so I looked it up. Yes, I think Jays have a better offense.

 

Orioles bullpen is obviously much better than ours

Edited August 8, 2016 by G-Snarls

[RealAccountant]

The Orioles will not make the playoffa

[Stangstag]

Do people honestly think the Orioles' offense is better than the Jays'? What a ridiculous notion.

 

The Jays have a better offense and better starting pitching than the Orioles. The Os have a better bullpen.

 

I'm still confident the Jays will be ahead of the Orioles by the end of the season, barring any major injuries. I also think Boston is a better team than the Os.

[Inklink]

Jays averaging 2.4 runs per game over the last eight games.

 

Really missing the man in white on the road. Perfect time to return home!

[King]

Show me the facts that don't make it successful. Wasted police resources, often false alarms? I just read an article (I'm assuming THE article you referred to) that are suggesting the things you are saying but have no facts to back that up other than they need to study it more. The whole idea that it could make a situation more dangerous is ridiculous. However a police force is trained to deal with a situation is on them, finding where the f*** they are is priority #1. If the system saves or even finds 1 child per year out of 100 amber alerts that should be seen as a success. Wasted police resources, etc. is all ********. We pay for it, you damn well better put out a notice if one my kids go missing, it's the least amount of work to tell people to keep an eye out for X Y Z.

 

Obligatory on topic line: Jays are sucking right now.

 

The kid in the amber alert I think you guys were discussing is dead. RIP

 

 

 

 

Neighbours and community members who searched this weekend for 12-year-old Finnigan Danne are awaiting word Monday from Hamilton police about how the boy died.

 

Danne, who had limited mobility, went missing from his home on Saturday.

 

The urgency of the search was heightened Sunday afternoon when police issued an Amber Alert, a special bulletin used to alert the public about a child abduction.

 

Police did not say what led them to suspect the child may have been abducted. Danne's body was found shortly after the alert was issued.

 

Police said an autopsy has been scheduled and their investigation will continue. The road to the family's home was blocked Monday morning, but police tape was cleared shortly after noon.

 

Neighbours near Danne's home said his body was found in a culvert in the area.

 

Susan Jervis, one of the neighbours who searched, said she was surprised to hear about Danne's whereabouts.

 

"I think if you live in this area, that was going to be the first place that you looked," she said. "It is pretty surprising that he's in a place where it looks like he would've been seen. So it doesn't make a lot of sense."

 

Ilene O'Connor and her husband Michael live in the house next to where Danne was found. They didn't know the boy personally but said the neighbourhood rallied around the family in the search.

 

"There were hundreds of people out here," she said. "Every neighbour in the area was here."

 

Police never told them explicitly that they'd found Danne's body, but it was evident, O'Connor said. She said they removed the body around 10 p.m. Sunday.

 

"They waited until after dark," O'Connor said. "[Police] came to the door and asked us if we wouldn't mind staying in the house. He said, 'You don't want to see this.'"

 

Monday, neighbours and people who helped in the search continued to come to the area, some to add condolences, other just looking to understand.

 

One woman said the suggestion of an abduction through the Amber Alert led her to keep her child inside.

 

"Until I know for sure what happened, I'm not letting him outside by himself. He's not happy with me," said Melanie Morton.

 

"It's kind of disconcerting. I'm scared. Until everybody knows for sure what happened, I don't know what to think."

 

Neighbour Gordana Stevanovic said she came back to the street "because we wanted closure."

 

She and Wendy Duque said that where the body was found doesn't make sense. They believe the area had been searched repeatedly.

 

"We were on that street an hour before the Amber Alert came out, which is very distressing. I couldn't sleep," said Duque.

 

"We really felt we needed to come back."

 

Danne had a neuromuscular disorder and used a wheelchair, police said in the Amber Alert. He had last been seen on Saturday, barefoot and wearing a Special Olympics shirt.

 

Police conducted a ground search for Danne through much of the weekend. The effort included the mounted unit, ATVs and the canine unit, along with about 200 residents who volunteered to help.

 

Hamilton police said in a news release around suppertime Sunday they were "deeply saddened to confirm" that Danne's body had been located.

[KingKat]

And with that... Time to close this one.