Blue Jays (Lauer) vs Rays (Martinez): 5/4/26, 6:40pm

[Olerud363.354]

14 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Dude its May 4th

Yankees will have their classic summer freefall

Since 1993 Yankees get big lead over jays in 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07. 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25

Jays come back 15, 25

Times Jays come back 2

Times Jays don't come back 24

Blue Jays message board.  Jays will come back.

Logic, History, Fangraphs, statistics, AI and probability - they won't.  Maybe every 15 years they come back from this, they almost certainly won't this year. 

[Stangstag]

Typical trop slop game

[Rynodb1]

Correction. 

1 for 8 with RISP. 

[Rynodb1]

3 minutes ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Since 1993 Yankees get big lead over jays in 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07. 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25

Jays come back 15, 25

Times Jays come back 2

Times Jays don't come back 24

Blue Jays message board.  Jays will come back.

Logic, History, Fangraphs, statistics, AI and probability - they won't.  Maybe every 15 years they come back from this, they almost certainly won't this year. 

All I've heard anyone say is that its possible. 

Your post just proved that. Its still possible. 

[neverbeenhere]

5 minutes ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Since 1993 Yankees get big lead over jays in 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07. 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25

Jays come back 15, 25

Times Jays come back 2

Times Jays don't come back 24

Blue Jays message board.  Jays will come back.

Logic, History, Fangraphs, statistics, AI and probability - they won't.  Maybe every 15 years they come back from this, they almost certainly won't this year. 

wow, who can argue against that

[RA Whiffleball]

1 minute ago, Rynodb1 said:

All I've heard anyone say is that its possible. 

Your post just proved that. Its still possible. 

Just like it's possible the Jays will win a series at the Graveyard.

[Rynodb1]

Just now, RA Whiffleball said:

Just like it's possible the Jays will win a series at the Graveyard.

Exactly. Unlikely? Sure. Impossible? Not. 

[neverbeenhere]

28 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Dude its May 4th

Yankees will have their classic summer freefall

 

It's already May 4th,

Come on, dude, you sound like living in a denial 

[Stangstag]

14 minutes ago, neverbeenhere said:

It's already May 4th,

Come on, dude, you sound like living in a denial 

Way too early to give up on trying to win the division, loser attitude 

[Olerud363.354]

31 minutes ago, Rynodb1 said:

All I've heard anyone say is that its possible. 

Your post just proved that. Its still possible. 

Yes it is possible. 

History 2/26 = 7.6%

Fangraphs = 3%

Blue Jays Message Board = 75% (the way people talk).

It's like because we rallied last year people are like... yeah yeah, just getting warmed up.  Yankees will have their swoon. 

Jays are the team of no hope.  They erase hope by May 1st most years falling 10 games behind.  Even though no hope they come back very rarely.  

Young ones don't know the feeling of a team playing good all year,. 

36% or so for making playoffs though.  If we can rally for 84 wins we can sneak in to wild card 3 and head to Cleveland or Chicago South Side... or maybe Kansas City.   

However it will get worse before it will get better.  Very sad sweep happening right now. 

[Jonn]

Man from being one game back to being at .500 to now being 3 back again. Pain. 2 more games in this s*** box as well.

[jaysblue]

1 hour ago, Spanky__99 said:

Pillar was bang on. They're getting guys on just not getting them in. Frustrating.

[Stangstag]

38 minutes ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Yes it is possible. 

History 2/26 = 7.6%

Fangraphs = 3%

Blue Jays Message Board = 75% (the way people talk).

It's like because we rallied last year people are like... yeah yeah, just getting warmed up.  Yankees will have their swoon. 

Jays are the team of no hope.  They erase hope by May 1st most years falling 10 games behind.  Even though no hope they come back very rarely.  

Young ones don't know the feeling of a team playing good all year,. 

36% or so for making playoffs though.  If we can rally for 84 wins we can sneak in to wild card 3 and head to Cleveland or Chicago South Side... or maybe Kansas City.   

However it will get worse before it will get better.  Very sad sweep happening right now. 

Thats some real btch talk my dude

[Omar]

1 hour ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Yes it is possible. 

History 2/26 = 7.6%

Fangraphs = 3%

Blue Jays Message Board = 75% (the way people talk).

It's like because we rallied last year people are like... yeah yeah, just getting warmed up.  Yankees will have their swoon. 

Jays are the team of no hope.  They erase hope by May 1st most years falling 10 games behind.  Even though no hope they come back very rarely.  

Young ones don't know the feeling of a team playing good all year,. 

36% or so for making playoffs though.  If we can rally for 84 wins we can sneak in to wild card 3 and head to Cleveland or Chicago South Side... or maybe Kansas City.   

However it will get worse before it will get better.  Very sad sweep happening right now. 

[jmomcc]

I don't see how any of this is relevant. You try to win as many games as possible. It that wins the division, that's nice. 

[Spanky__99]

55 minutes ago, jaysblue said:

[Stangstag]

23 minutes ago, jmomcc said:

I don't see how any of this is relevant. You try to win as many games as possible. It that wins the division, that's nice. 

Exactly, not sure what the loser attitude here is all about 

[RA Whiffleball]

5 hours ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Since 1993 Yankees get big lead over jays in 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07. 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25

Jays come back 15, 25

Times Jays come back 2

Times Jays don't come back 24

Blue Jays message board.  Jays will come back.

Logic, History, Fangraphs, statistics, AI and probability - they won't.  Maybe every 15 years they come back from this, they almost certainly won't this year. 

I wouldn't count 1994-2014, we were irrelevant in those years.

[Olerud363.354]

4 hours ago, RA Whiffleball said:

I wouldn't count 1994-2014, we were irrelevant in those years.

Actually good teams in 98, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014

Supposed to be good 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2013

In almost every case got behind early. This is Blue Jays baseball since 1993.  Always working from behind.   The 98 team worked themselves up to 3 games back of the wild card.  As did the 2008 team.  In both cases the hated Red Sox came out on top with a hot September.  Just difficult working from 10 games back on Star Wars day.  

Already looking forward to next year.  Just once wouln't it be fun if it was the Jays with a 10 game lead mid may?  Or hell even 1 game behind mid May instead of 10. 

[mphenhef]

6 hours ago, RA Whiffleball said:

I wouldn't count 1994-2014, we were irrelevant in those years.

The jays were irrelevant in many of those years due to getting out of the gate so slow.  We went into many of those years with a lot of optimism.  However, the wild card makes it much easier to make up for it.

[mphenhef]

The offense is anemic right now and batting with runners in scoring position has been a big problem.  This lineup has a lot of holes in it that you wouldn't have if the opening day 1,2,4 and 5 hitters weren't all injured.  The expectant 3,4,5,6 and 7 starters have been injured or out most of the season.   How are they as close as they are?

 

[RA Whiffleball]

4 hours ago, Olerud363.354 said:

Actually good teams in 98, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014

Supposed to be good 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2013

In almost every case got behind early. This is Blue Jays baseball since 1993.  Always working from behind.   The 98 team worked themselves up to 3 games back of the wild card.  As did the 2008 team.  In both cases the hated Red Sox came out on top with a hot September.  Just difficult working from 10 games back on Star Wars day.  

Already looking forward to next year.  Just once wouln't it be fun if it was the Jays with a 10 game lead mid may?  Or hell even 1 game behind mid May instead of 10. 

In all those years, we were never seriously in the race for the division or the wild card going down the stretch.

No close call, no lead fritterred away in the last 2 weeks of the season, no elimination on the last day.

All of the winning heritage we built through 1993 went out the door the day Labatt and Pat Gillick left.

The only thing we stood for from 1994-2014 was the national anthem. 

[max silver]

1 hour ago, mphenhef said:

The offense is anemic right now and batting with runners in scoring position has been a big problem.  This lineup has a lot of holes in it that you wouldn't have if the opening day 1,2,4 and 5 hitters weren't all injured.  The expectant 3,4,5,6 and 7 starters have been injured or out most of the season.   How are they as close as they are?

 

The Jays chose a good year to get off to a slow start at the plate given how mediocre the AL is as a whole right now. We can only hope that inserting Barger into the lineup helps to kickstart it into gear as it did a season ago.

[mphenhef]

2 hours ago, RA Whiffleball said:

In all those years, we were never seriously in the race for the division or the wild card going down the stretch.

No close call, no lead fritterred away in the last 2 weeks of the season, no elimination on the last day.

All of the winning heritage we built through 1993 went out the door the day Labatt and Pat Gillick left.

The only thing we stood for from 1994-2014 was the national anthem. 

Long time fan here.  There were many, many years in that time that we entered full of optimism that quickly went astray for a variety of reasons. 

[RA Whiffleball]

38 minutes ago, mphenhef said:

Long time fan here.  There were many, many years in that time that we entered full of optimism that quickly went astray for a variety of reasons. 

Not a variety of reasons.

1. We had owners who didn't give a flying about the ball club (Interbrew SA and Rogers when the old man was running the show).

2. We had the two worst GMs in club history (Gord Ash and JP Ricciardi).