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Drew would be beautiful. I hope they seriously don't think they can go back to letting Izturis play through another period of another players injury. It'll really go south fast if that happens.

I did, sick of reading half of it with insults thrown by him at just about anyone he pleases. I think it says something when you've got 1 guy arguing with 20 different users. Don't like it? Don't read it, buddy there obviously didn't.

Good to get them out of the way at least.....Tropicana field is a horrible place for us over the last 5 years. Hopefully they can just move on to a new day and it doesn't trickle over.

Thank god for the ignore feature.

So then why are you still responding buddy? Are you really that lame and stupid? I've watched you for years run around on the internet and chastise people for not seeing eye to eye with you. Do you think that's what a grown man should be doing with his life? Or is IT all you have in your life? Because after at least 7 or 8 years of watching you attack people with your childish rhetoric, i find it kind of astonishing that you're not able to see the pattern and just stop yourself from acting like a complete and utter child. Literally like an 8 or 9 year old who doesn't get his way. But now it goes beyond that, for all I've said anywhere here is that I don't see this team doing well based on the team they are fielding, nothing knee jerk about it. They're fielding two over 35 .500 pitchers and three guys who haven't combined for 35 starts over the past 2 years(which is what a MLB pitcher is projected to get over a full season). So because I don't agree with you, you act like a complete idiot, keyboard jockey bully, who can't find the maturity he needs to walk away and ignore the people he should be ignoring. And for ALMOST A DECADE!! I think that says it all right there buddy. You need professional help and you need to spend less time worrying about what others think of a baseball team....on AN INTERNET FORUM. So you can kindly go f*** off in your own corner and worry about what lame reaction yoiu're going to give the next guy who doesn't agree with you. Or what lame insult you will throw at the next guy that you're not grown up enough to ignore. But I fully suspect that you'll still be pandering around, with your jockey uniform on, another ten years from now. I think you need to take a step back and just try to realize what a loser you sound like and how pathetic it is that you can't seem to ignore people like a mature adult would. See? I've had my say and I will now completely ignore you. Because I view you as a child that there is no point arguing with because I don't believe you have the mental capacity to understand. Good luck with your internet policeman career. I mean, 2 decades of chastising people for potentially ignorant comments. You must be oh so proud of that achievement! So go ahead with your insulting response, blah blah blah blah blah blah, as usual and move on like you said you would ok big bad internet policeman tough guy?

That was good but you forgot to call him a wheelchair thief and a cockaholic amputee rapist. Why get all bent? I see you spending more time calling out people for putting knee jerk reactions, than you do talking baseball. Just ignore us raw dog suckers that should go play in traffic and talk baseball with the people you feel know the game and see it as you do. Spending this much time, year after year, being Mr. Policeman on a baseball forum isn't healthy.

Gotta admit. Alex tried very hard last year to field a winner. I didn't hear many naysayers saying his moves were mistakes at the time. In all fairness, it would be pretty hard for him to make drastic moves again this year without letting everything settle down to see where he is at with this team. I think he has to be patient, not to say that the team shouldn't have gone harder after Santana of Garza or something along those lines. If Dickey somehow returns to form, Morrow finds that groove he had going there a while back, Hutch progresses and pitches well, Buerhle does what he does and we get 10 or more from a 5th starter...it could be different. But we also need Lawrie to start living up to his potential and Reyes to stay healthy and Lind to stop playing like he has Downs Syndrome, then we might somehow have a chance to compete. But those are a lot of question marks there. A lot of if's that need to happen just to stay competitive.

If he strokes out, it'll be his own fault. I'm not talking about one game here. I'm looking at this team and it's manager, in the toughest division out there, and it looks pretty bleak to me. When you have to play the majority of your games against teams like this, it's going to be tough, even if you're prepared, well managed and experienced. This team has three guys in Hutch, Morrow and McGowan who have lost so many games to injury the past 2 years, it's not funny. I don't think Gibbons is a good manger from watching him manage this team, that's all. And I don't think that the team has a 15 game winner on the staff and all it will really take is for Morrow to go down again, which is ENTIRELY reasonable to assume and one other starter to seriously falter or go down to injury, and this team is in deep trouble in a division where just about every team has pitching and offense coming out their asses.

Alex took a chance at the win now game and lost. I gotta admit that i thought at the time that they would do great. Signing Dickey and bring in an innings eater like Buerhle. Bringing in Johnson who had a career ERA of about 3.2 and bringing in /Reyes who has shown he can be a game changer. So far almost ALL of those moves have backfired in a major way. At least he tried and the team finally loosened the purse strings for the first time in a long time. It just sucks that the fallout was as bad as it was.

Ok almighty, you know everything and everyone who thinks differently is stupid, I get it and I get your type. So just be an adult and ignore my posts then instead of having some sort of need to put others who feel differently down. If that's what turns your crank, good for you pal. I'm "dumn" and you're brilliant...happy? k, move on, thanks!

That can account for some of it I'm sure. But I watched him pitch several times with the Mets and loads of hitters weren't even making ANY solid contact off of him. He's getting hit a LOT harder and his walk totals are a lot higher as well. A pitchers park can help a guys ERA for sure, but when a guy is getting hit hard on a regular basis after coming off a full season where guys were baffled by him is a bit different.

LOL, one game. He pitched well in the second half last year when it didn't matter anymore. If he gets off to a poor start and Buerhle gets off to a slow start again.......these "ONE" games matter. He was a .500 pitcher last year with an ERA well over 4. I don't think his numbers will be any better this year than last. Oh wait! Can't say that or lest be told to go play in traffic! LOOOOL

I hope he enjoys his 39 million and movie deal then.....

R u serious? Who is projecting that? Do you want to put money on that? Because I'd be more than happy to wager any amount of money you wish that this doesn't happen. I'd be more inclined to think that 4/5th's of their starters will have ERA's over 4.5

Jesus. WTF happened to him? Is it just a case of the NL being that weak htting wise? I mean, the guy whad a sub 3 ERA and was throwing complete game 1 and 2 hitters like crazy. How the f*** does he go from that to this?

But Dickey is our ace!!! Combine him with an aging Buerhle, and erratic and injury prone Morrow and a guy in Mcgowan who hasn't thrown as a starter in 4 years.....that's apparently not reason enough to think that this might be another bad year for this team.

What? What did I say that would constitute that? I look at this team and don't see them doing well.....so I'm supposed to praise them otherwise? Or act like a fanboy? Sorry, I call it as I see it and after the season is over, if I'm proven different, you can speak your peace. I could be wrong....maybe they win 85 games.....Boston won it all after a last place finish the year before. But with this team, I don't see anything like that happening and i don't see the problem with saying so.

Why? Because my opinion doesn't match yours? LMFAO. Is there anything that makes you think this group of guys will do otherwise? Because I just don't see it, I honestly don't. I hope for something diffewrent for sure, but I'm not seeing it based on the team they are fielding. If Morrow wins 16 or 17 and Buerhle repeats last year...Dickey improves DRASTICALLY from last year and McGowna stays healthy, they could do bettewr than .500. But face it, they're in the toughest division in baseball and we play the majority of our games against these teams. With a manager like Gibbons to top it off, I can see it heading south in a giant hurry.

I've had hope for Morrow since day one, we all have. He's shown flashes of brilliance and nothing more. I don't think he's anything more than a .500 pitcher at best. Until of course, he moves to another team and comes out of his shell to win 20 games, accrediting his sudden success to something trivial. I look at our rotation and see 4 debatable .500 pitchers and Hutch, who if healthy, could be the one bright light out of em all. I think Cecil could have been an asset to our rotation although I see his value as a reliever. But without the starters to get you to that pen, it doesn't matter. Dickey, Morrow, Buerhle and Mcgowan....can anyone honestly say any of those guys will have even good seasons? I won't be surprised at all to see them lose 90 games or more.

I do look forward to a whole season of not having to watch Arencibia flail at pitches my grandmother could hit and I won't miss his inability to block anything in the dirt to his right.

EE and Jose will be fine this year. Gibbons will cost us at least 6 or 7 wins this year by simply managing the team into the ground. Buerhle is a notoriously slow starter and Mcgowan hasn't pitched for any length of time for eons. Our rotation is so suspect it's scary. I honestly think Hutch is our best starter. I can't see Morrow improving much and Dickey, well, he's just not an ace period. I think they should have stretched out Cecil this spring and put him in the rotation. He's proven that when his velocity is there, he can win at this level. Reyes is injury prone and we can't depend on him for anything. Lawrie has been a "potential" type player and so far has proven nothing. So what? We're relying on EE and Jose to carry this team? I can't see them winning even 75 games to be honest and I hope they tank much worse so they can wipe the slate clean and get rid of both Anthopolous and Gibbons.

We've got Dickey coming out and throwing meatballs....A guy who hit under .200 last year and up against one of the games best lefties and our "manager" lets him swing away???? On a left on lefty matchup no less??? We've got Jose facking Reyjerkoff coming out for one at bat this year before going down to injury??? And this is what we gave up on a guy like Henderson Alvarez for? This team is complete and utter garbage and I'm just about done after watching 3 whole innings. I've been a fan for a long time, but I simply can't watch an asinine manager like this, managing a moron like Dickey, who all of a sudden can't get anybody out when he needs to......, after coming off a CY Yound season? He comes to our team and he's instantly trash? Stuck with an idiot like Morrow, who has all the talent in the world, but can't command his fastball for the life of him? A team who says to Goins, "ok kid, you've EARNED your starting position, but we're not going to let you gain experience and start against a tough lefty." So sit on the bench and let Izturis, who booted around the ball just as bad as Bonafacio did last yeart, start in your place. That's how we're going to boost our confidence in you and that's how we're going to let you gain that experience, so that later in the year, WHEN IT MATTERS, you're better prepared to face a guy of this calibre. It's ridiculous that Anthopolous thought that Gibbons was the guy to manage this baseball team. He built up his farm system, to trade it away for Reyes, Bonafacio and Buerhle. LMAO. With this idiot as our manager, this team is finishing dead last again this year. The only thing worth watching to me is seeing Hutch gain a years experience. Other than that, I can't be bothered watching Gibbons run this team into the ground and watching our so called "ace" get hammered by throwing beach balls up there. I have better things to do with my time.

And that's going to happen, even against bad teams. The streak gave me no false sense of anything. The team absolutely hammered both Colorado AND Texas, with none of those games being close, except the 2-0 win against Colorado. Ups and downs are the norm in sports period. Don't know how much you follow, but I'd think you would know that. The norms we speak of are in the blue jays favor as the season progresses. With a power hitting team, the average is to be expected. Most teams who win their divisions will play .500 for a large part of the season, and go on 3 or 4 winning streaks like the one the jays just experienced. I don't know what kind of upgrade yuo think the team can make at catcher, but if you know ANYTHING about baseball, you will see that for the most part, it is a weak spot on the roster of mostly all teams. You rarely ever see a team with a catcher even hitting in the top 6 in their lineup. At second, yeah, Boni hasn't come through, but do you really expect the team to be top notch at EVERY mposition. That seems a bit ridiculous to me. Bautista might be struggling a bit, but as long as he comes out of it, his WAR speaks for itself. He started this streak off by turning a loss into a win with that homer off CWS closer and he has done that two other times this year and we're not even halfway through. But when guys like that struggle, all you need is for one other guy to pick up the slack. That's what a winning team does and we have ALL the tools to accomplish that. For a few games it was Lind....Izturis himself was responsible for a win. Bautista pulled a gamefrom a loss into a win.....Encarnacion has done likewise. Even Kawasaki turned that potential demoralizing loss into an eventual win. So for as weak and undiscilined as you think this team is, they are equally as strong for a simple reason. TALENT. And the team is oozing with it from top to bottom and that includes Bonifacio. For as bad as he has defensively early on, I've seen him be equally spectacular. The only really weak link this team has is JPA. If you want to turn that into a team desperate to make upgrades due to their lack of discipline or whatever, then I think your being way too anxious and a wee bit deluded. There was nothing about that streak that didn't REEK of PRECISELY what this team was chalked up to be. With Lind able to provide protection, and GREAT protection for Encarnacion right now, this team is primed to take this division bar injury. The bullpen is top notch and the starters have come arouind and the team is picking each other up onalmost every occasion lately. So they don't play well against a team they haven't played well against for five years now and all of a sudden it's time to start trading guys and making changes? Jesus Harold f***ing Christ! Once Lawrie comes back, our team gets better. We can afford to wait for his bat to come around. I mean, the kid struggles for half a season and its f***ing panic time on him???? REALLY? Because his bandwagon was tipping over and f***ing overloaded when he first came up just over a year ago...and now we've got people actually thinking because he struggling under .200 that he's a liability? Watch baseball, every teams offense goes to sleep for short stretches and sometimes long ones. It f***ing happens! But when you have the talent, you don't rush to make changes, ESPECIALLY when the teams chemistry is just starting to mesh. So the solution is to mix it up? Because we're weak at 1 position where basically every team is weak at? Look at our lineup and put it up against just about any lineup in the majors and I don't have a worry in the world.

Yeah, that sweep against Baltimore was HUGE, especially how they won those games. The bats were due for a letdown and I don't see that continuing for long. Lester hasn't been pitching well at all lately and Bucholz is injured so we miss that ugly dick head. I like the matchups for us. Lester/Wang, Johnson/Webster, Doubront/Rogers and Buerhle/Dempster. I think 3 out of 4 isn't a bad bet. At worst a split I would hope.