Grant77

I'm drunk on the Blue Jays.

Gallardo is going to get CRUSHED if he has the same zone. Somehow I doubt that will be the case, as MLB has already demonstrated their bias, but you never know.

Call it two!!!

f*** off Harold Reynolds. I'd rather listen to Jamie Campbell.

To each his own. Every fan puts a different level of importance on the game. Being a Jays fan transcends any occupation I may have at that time.

I was really hoping that the U.S. flag would be upside down.

Haha touche

I can't understand how a Jays fan could possibly be at work right now. Tell them your wife is having a kid or something, I wouldn't miss this game for the world.

You sound ill, maybe you should take the rest of the day off?

My staff and I are taking the afternoon off today and tomorrow and working a full day on Saturday.

Very unprofessional on the part of Arrieta and the Cubs. Take your base and stay in the dugout.

Colon got stem cell treatment and the results are miraculous. There will be a renaissance in baseball medicine once the stigma is reduced.

Dickey might pitch well, but Gibby certainly isn't putting his players in the best position to succeed. Price is on all of this rest though, so I think they go with him in game 4.

To me, this means that we are going with Price on short rest in game 4. Otherwise, it doesn't make a lot of sense to put Dickey in a bad situation.

Fair enough, I wasn't sure. I never said I speak for the scientific community, but I interact with people with intimate knowledge on this subject on a fairly regular basis and the misuse of the word disease comes up sometimes. A fellow band member is actually the head of addiction services here in the Soo. The idea that alcoholics aren't born with a predisposition to addiction (ie. a disorder) and can 'catch' the condition is never given any serious consideration.

Best emoticon ever lol

It's not a debate in the scientific community, of which I am a part. There are no known genetic or biological causes of alcoholism, or any mental disorder for that matter. That's the real key point to keep in mind. Would you call nicotine addiction a disease as well? The causes and symptoms you describe are virtually identical. However, I often think that it is a matter of semantics. I notice that you also call diabetes a disease, when it is in fact not one at all. It's caused by an improper functioning of the pancreas, resulting from genetics, abuse of the organ, or a combination of both. Psychiatric disorders in particular are commonly miscast as 'diseases' in order to sell pharmaceuticals for symptoms that don't even have an identifiable cause. You bring up a secondary reason with your last comment, which really illustrates my point. It's called a disease for social reasons, not for scientific ones. I don't blame people for not being aware of the difference and I'm not surprised in the least. All that being said, I have seen alcohol addiction afflict colleagues and family members and it is terrible. I fully support efforts to reduce the stigma around alcohol addiction and to help people that have problems. I'd be very surprised if our views were any different in that regard. I just don't think that the problem needs to be mislabeled in order to achieve that goal.

It's not a disease, it's a psychiatric disorder (pet peeve of mine), but good luck to CC nonetheless.

You booked a flight and hotel before you got tickets to a sold out game?

We went 42-14 from deadline to clinch for a .750 win percentage if you want to cherry pick stats. They are still an under .500 club using base runs, even including the better second half. Teams as bad as Texas rarely make the playoffs, it's a great matchup for us.

Been reading again for the past couple of days and just popped in to share an opinion: The entire reason we started a new forum (and I donated to it) was to get rid of people like the dogg/zee/trouba. People like king and boxy that know their baseball were never the issue and still aren't. Hearing that they are getting banned for minor issues while the trolls are free to post is very disheartening. Some of the old knock-down-drag-out arguments were the absolute best parts of the old forum. I don't know much about all of the mods, but Kingkat and hurl are pretty even keeled guys, so I hope they can fix this. Cheers.

Merry Christmas friends. I've had other priorities lately, but I remain the most dedicated Jays fan around and hope to return to the forum at some point. All the best to everyone for the holidays and for 2015!

Apologies for taking so long. I haven't been able to get to a computer much. 9. Blue Jays - Nick Gordon, SS, 6'2, 170, Olympia High School (Fl) (GM-Grant77): "As an extremely athletic player at an up the middle position, Nick fits right into our organizational philosophy. Our scouts feel that he can develop into a plus defensive shortstop at the major league level, due to his incredible range and above average arm. While his bat is not at the same level, we believe that his plus bat speed and pitch recognition skills will help him develop in a similar way to Francisco Lindor. With our past track record of identifying good pitchers later in the draft, we feel this is the time to grab the top remaining position player."

Jays pick will be done tomorrow, I'll work on it during the day and go into town to get internet service tomorrow night, working up north.

They're the biggest idiots and hypocrites on the face of the planet, what do you expect?