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How dare you!!!! Man he's old but has more energy than most of the play-by-play people in baseball. His classic "It's time for some Blue Jay Baseball! Hello friends this is Jerry Howarth.." intro is the best. The reason why I will remain to buy MLB.tv is that I could overlay the games with FAN590 broadcasts, especially for home games during the ALDS/CS instead of the US broadcasts was amazing.

I said when he's not shilling!!! Maybe it's because he's the only option to listen to Blue Jays stuff in the morning.

Barker? Research? The thing that annoys me most about him is that he takes the whole "I'm an ex-MLB player so my opinion is fact and trumps all" which I get it, he's played so he knows way more about the humanistic side of the game because none of us have or will ever experience that. But he just sounds so arrogant, unless he's of course he's on prime time, McCowan does a good job of shutting Barker up lol

Shulman is great. Very boring voice for a play-by-play guy and not too energetic but his insight and analysis, especially when he comes on the FAN590 is really great so that's a great move to have him back for a few games. Buck and Pat are decent enough commentators, although I think Joe Siddal excels Pat and I think he should replace him, he's a real down to earth personality and very animated I never thought they could replace Ashby with someone better. Howarth is great my favourite commentator ever. Shi Davidi is great and so is Zwelling and Ben Nicholson-Smith and even Blair and Brunt's insights when not drinking the kool-aid are pretty reasonable as well. And Jamie Campbell has always been a great host and doesn't really comment on things he doesn't know a lot about of which is always great. So the vast majority of who Sportsnet have are great. It's just the people who they throw camera time at the most really suck. That includes Zaun, Barry and Hazel. I wish they'd have the roundtable of Zwelling, Davidi and Ben-Nicholson Smith with Campbell being the host for pre-game shows but that will never happen, so since Tim and Sid take the 5-6:30 slot anyways might as well give them the last half hour to set up the game. Tim's pretty knowledgable about baseball and Sid is hilarious so if it's not gonna be informative at least it will be entertaining. Zaun has bored me now for ages, especially that stupid Sunday Roast segment he does every sunday morning.

He listened to Zaun and Barker. Both of them were advocates that 86-88 fastball is better than 90-92 because 90-92 is the average batspeed of a major-leaguer or something and the extra rest is making him throw harder so its bad lol

It's Sunday, do you taste the Kool-Aid?

You quiet down you!

Marco Estrada's pitching with a herniated disk ... why is he pitching with a herniated disk? I know Dickey's bad but not throw-Estrada-on-the-mound-with-a-herniated-disk bad

You know the Rays won't retain him when he's a free agent... Future Jay!!!

Yeah and AA let a bunch of good talent go to the Astros for Happ and an even better group go to the Marlins for what should have been a salary dump. AA had lots of moronic trades that were really saved by his last year of acquiring Travis, Donaldson, Tulo and Price. My point is exactly like what you said -- instead of developing CY young talent he traded for it. Instead of developing cheap talent to be our core he rushed to trade instead for "now" solutions. It's not that they didn't believe in the players -- I'd say more it's their philosophy was to treat prospects more of currency than actual potential solutions. How many players in general are homegrown from under AA are on the roster? I think we've had more under JPR. You have Sanchez, Stroman, Pompey, Loup, Barnes, Dermondy, Osuna, Shultz? Only this from all his years here? I think we'll see prospects being kept more here than we saw when AA was in charge

How do you knew that they didn't think they were good? That would mean that AA thought Synder sucked. He just loved trading boatloads of prospects, that was his biggest flaw imo. I don't think he believed in developing he just believed in drafting players that looked good (high risk high ceiling) and traded them while they were in high A/AA ball before they face real competition or their arms blew out. I'm convinced that's why he piggybacked starts, doing that royally f***ed us with Sanchez. I actually can't wait until the next few drafts where we can actually draft with the mindset of development and see youth players come up.

People are allergic to home runs lol

We're third!!!! f***. Tigers are one game back against us and don't they play the Twins a bunch of times? Gotta aim for the division f*** it. WC is too unstable.

Lol

If Osuna came in and pitched all the way to the 9th striking out everyone along the way we would have still lost.

Our record after that game was 74-56. Our record today is 79-66. Yup, 5-10

When we swept Minny, so August 28 and 29

It's not over until the last out is recorded!!

we are so doo doo

Just like what he's been saying, Jays need to score runs. Not sure if you've been tuned into the Fan since Monday, but they've all hit the panic button. Blair, Brunt, Barker and Wilner have changed the tone to the Jays suck and if they keep sucking they might not make the post-season.

No one is depressed about the future, only depressed about the present

Wasn't the young core his doing? Maybe that's what they're trying to tap into, especially his history being an advanced scout under Shapiro and Shapiro firing some of the minor league/scouting staff. He made some bonehead FA signings, Sandoval... ugh Edit: I'm a genius!

Wilner just said Jays gonna hire Ben Cherrington to be VP of Baseball Operations?

Bullpen is not a joke. They've been overworked, how many starters went deep into games?

Someone start a wave! Maybe that will start something