G-Snarls

We don't know. And I don't care. As long as he/she is a reasonable poster - welcome. It is hard to imagine a young woman making an account on here, posting some of the stuff she did, and using her own picture in an avatar. That's why people have called BS.

10,000 posts. I need a week off. You too Spank. LOL

f***ed if I know.

LOL ah s*** good call. I think you have been. A few others not so much.

Yep. Everyone is exposing the team's sudden ill-advised cheapness. How can he look fans in the eye and say he is trying to make the team better?? How can he start the off season saying he needs to address the rotation and suddenly say internal options are better? Davidi and Boras and Rosenthal have all called ******** and I love it.

We need a board glossary somewhere. LOL

Excellent use of HappHazard. LOL. "He was promoting his client as very non-McGowanesque but was #despaired by the fat Greek"

This was not an off season to stand pat. That was pretty much the only thing to NOT do. Either throw more money at it to try for a contender or blow it up. There should have been no in between this off season. The circumstances did not favour that. Not saying he had to make 5 trades and 2 FA signings. But just try to legitimately add some wins. There were plenty of opportunities to do so. There still are!

Agree. We get people reporting posters all the time "this is Dogg/Zee I know it!" Well sometimes they're right and sometime they're not. We've gotten better at figuring out who is a legit new member vs a re spawned troll. We're not perfect but much better.

Davidi on his recent triple and how much more confident he feels running this year: http://bit.ly/1idNowB

Interesting observation. Not sure how to explain.

She/he hasn't been banned. hasn't done anything wrong.

Davidi speckin' the truth Listen to him AA

Yep. And if/when Morrow or someone else goes on DL you have Happ or Stroman to step in.

Davidi: Really, there is no excuse at this point for general manager Alex Anthopoulos not to aggressively pursue the free-agent right-hander and stabilize a rotation that badly needs another supporting pillar, especially with J.A. Happ’s back woes and dodgy command leaving a substantial crack in a shaky foundation. Up until the events of the past few days – when shifts within Santana’s representation seem to have left the 31-year-old with Jay Alou as his agent – a reasonable case could be made against anteing up the roughly $50 million over four years he was believed to be seeking. As Anthopoulos, speaking in general terms, put it on Feb. 20, “It’s a comparison, how much better are they than what you have? We have to make that evaluation. Term and dollars are important. You like every player, but at certain years and dollars they don’t make sense for us.” But on a one-year deal, the conversation shifts dramatically on a number of fronts. First and foremost, adding Santana would allow the Blue Jays to run out a rotation of him, R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Brandon Morrow and Drew Hutchison without depending on Happ to play a substantial role. One of Happ, Esmil Rogers or Todd Redmond could then serve as the long man/sixth starter out of the bullpen, while buying more development time for Marcus Stroman and more recovery time for Kyle Drabek. ... Ultimately, though, there’s no arguing that the Blue Jays would be a better team with Santana on it, and it makes business sense to spend an extra $8-$12 million to support the roughly $135 million in payroll commitments already in place. Go boom or bust in 2014, since if things go awry the current Blue Jays core will probably need to be turned over, anyway.

Davidi: Jays have perfect opportunity to land Santana http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/jays-have-perfect-opportunity-to-land-santana/

There's just ZERO reason not to now. No longer wanting a 4 year deal. Drabek and Happ sucking. He's presumably quite happy to sign here. Sign him 1 year 12-13M, then as long as he's decent a QO giving us another single year of him or a draft pick.

Boooooo

One good game? He has those occasionally.

Ditto Well played BTS, as usual

The other odd thing is that last year we were yelling for Happ to make the team and this year we're yelling for him NOT to. I guess last year Ricky was his only competition. This year there are better alternatives.

LOL. That's all the people who were worried, sitting in that section?

I mean I expect JP to have a few good games and probably steal one from Toronto with a "clutch" 3 run HR. But he's not getting significantly better.