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It was $399 at launch. Good thing I picked mine up in November haha

Inside the Trop right now and they have Bedard jersey t-shirts. Going to buy one for Gibbers since he loves Canadian players.

Ticket prices for these games are astronomical to begin with - I just can't see people forking over so much more than face value like $700-$800 for a pair of seats in the lower bowl. I'm sure seats that are $60 face value could easily get $200 for the pair. I wouldn't be shocked though to see prices going down as we get later in the evening/tomorrow morning. Trust me, people will start to get worried and lower their ticket prices on StubHub in order to get rid of them.

Should be awesome! Are you going to any of the games?

In Tampa for the weekend, catching the Rays/Yankees game tonight. Erik Bedard making his first start tonight. Would have liked to seen David Price or Alex Cobb, though Bedard being Canadian is a plus. Wearing my WBC Canada jersey at the Trop tonight.

That's quite ridiculous. Your better off watching the game at a bar or at home rather than spend that much to sit up that high. I know the atmosphere will be amazing, though still. Heck people spending like $400-500 for a pair of seats, you're probably better off spending a bit more and buying a huge LED flat screen TV lol.

Got seats for Game 2 from a teacher I know whose friend has season tickets and wasn't able to go to the first two games. Bought them at face value $178 each, 13 rows from the court. Could have got Game 1 as well, though couldn't find anyone to go with on Saturday. The 12:30 start time sucks though will admit. Wish the game was Saturday night.

Twins had no hits at all. Just awful baseball.

Carlos Silva - 71 strikeouts, and only 9 WALKS! in 188.1 innings back in 2005 lol. 0.43 BB/9 is absurd for a pitcher with almost 200 innings!

Loved Brad Radke as well. Great pitcher to watch back in the day! Vastly underrated.

Brad Radke had 34 strikeouts and 1 walk in his first 8 starts during the 2005 season. 60 strikeouts and 4 walks in his first 14 starts that season. Crazy!

Josh Towers had 32 K's and 4 BB's in his first 8 starts during the 2005 season. He was also 23/1 during his first 5 starts. I love pitchers who have great control and throw strikes.

We haven't even finished Week 3 of the season - its still early. Rays don't look in the best of shape, though I'm not writing them off yet. They need Cobb back soon which is a MUST and Hellickson should be returning. I don't see a problem with Odorizzi, Bedard, Karns at the back end. As for their hitting, Myers could go out and have two games like Lawrie just did and everything looks alright. Is this an opening for the Jays? Most definitely. They need to take advantage when AL East teams are banged up and in rough shape.

I think any member on here could blow away the Padres pitching in that ballpark lol.

I've seen better.

Oh no, Marcus Walden should have been given a longer opportunity here in Toronto. In two years we'll here how the Jays made a mistake cutting him when he's in Oakland's rotation!

Is this the league CatAss?

+1 What was KC, PIT and especially Atlanta thinking? It's irrational and insane to say that Chavez was going to be an above-average MLB starter back in 2012 when he displayed very little success previously. Heck for majority of his career, he was a reliever. Even Oakland used him as a mop-up guy in 2013. I'm sure Atlanta fans especially are raging now as much as KingCat is. He should join their forum and let out his emotions and feelings there.

Don't take what this team says literally haha.

Gotta heckle Happ at the next home game behind the bullpen.

Howie Kendrick OTB. Also, Ian Kennedy is close to being moved likely.

lol

So are you saying that the Jays shouldn't have given up on guys like Chien Ming Wang last season after only 27 innings? He was solid down in Triple A. Chavez was a fringe arm, that mostly spent his career in the bullpen. Sure it would have been nice to hang onto him, but even Oakland never used him as a starter in 2013 when he was there. It's just irrational to say back in 2012 that you thought Chavez was going to be a solid Major League starter, when there was very little evidence suggesting that. Just using Rogers as an example. His rate stats were excellent with Cleveland in 2012 and he s*** the bed here. Just goes to show you that some guys could pan out and some guys don't. So far in 3 starts, Chavez has. Lets see if he makes it to 20-25 starts this season. Was it a painful memory last season when Chavez was pitching as a mop-up guy out of the A's bullpen? Sure mistakes are made, but there are so many examples of teams catching lightning in a bottle with a vet. Look at Josh Towers for an example. Baltimore then made a mistake for letting him go, since he was a decent arm for the Jays for those three seasons. Letting go of Towers went on to haunt them since he posted a 4.2 WAR in 2005. The Pirates are probably still banging their heads on letting Jose Bautista go, and even the Rangers probably for trading Chris Davis, but stuff like that happens. You can't go and say two-three years after and say "oh I knew Jose Bautista was going to hit 50 HR's in a season back in 2007/2008 or that Chris Davis was going be in the running for MVP when he was struggling with Texas" after the fact. I'm not making broad extrapolations. Chavez didn't have any success here in Toronto at the big league level. He was a fringe pitcher so I'm asking where does it warrant him getting an extended look in the rotation? Then you can make that argument about almost anyone. Sometimes players get an opportunity and run with it; sometimes they don't. Especially for those fringe minor league/replacement level vets, they can't afford to struggle early once they get an opportunity since then that stamps their ticket out of town. How was it bungled? He never panned out here in Toronto and who would have said he would? Sure it looks like a mistake if Chavez goes on to post a 3-4 WAR season in Oakland this season. Though it's easy to say that now in 2014 compared to in 2012. I'm all on the Jesse Chavez bandwagon, especially after I claimed him in my 30-team dynasty league. Though I find it hard to believe that you saw this coming back in 2012 and are saying the Jays made a huge mistake in letting go of a fringe MLB player at the time. It's easy to say that two-three years after the fact. Let's wait and see him make more than 3 starts this season.

Carlos Villanueva was pretty solid for a 12-13 start stretch in 2012 until he had two huge blowups at the end of the September that season. Does that make Carlos Villaneuva a great starter? And this was in the Majors, not Triple A mind you.

How things change so quickly.