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I was going to say this. Montoyo is making the big-brain play. Planting the desire to get into shape into Vlad's head. Vlad becomes a +10 run 3B and puts up multiple 10 WAR seasons and leads the Blue Jays to 3 World Series.

I'm completely out of patience with Buck Martinez. He seems especially bad this year. I don't know any casual fan would enjoy him either. He just endlessly talks about strikeouts and hitting the ball the other way.

Dunedin won 18-0 tonight and only hit 1 homerun. Pearson is too good for A+. The weather has warmed up. He should get moved up to New Hampshire now.

Gasol has been amazing in this series. I think there should be no doubt to the prudence of that trade. Kawhi with 0 jumpshots made and 6 turnovers. This was the game Orlando had to win.

Adam Kloffenstein article: https://baseballtoronto.com/2019/04/16/adam-kloffenstein-takes-maturity-advanced-approach-into-first-full-season/ Not too much there though.

Pillar is not the same at all. Pillar never failed to put up 2 wins in his 4 full seasons with the Blue Jays.

The casuals love for Goins is bizarre. He should be a villain for dropping that popup. I guess the allure of a scrappy middle infielder is just that strong.

Absolutely pathetic

Might as well fold the franchise if they lose this series!

Holy s*** this is pathetic

Schoop is coming off a disaster year and got $7.5M in free agency. Lol at Heyman using him as a comparable.

The only logical conclusion is that Albies has secretly been diagnosed with terminal cancer and tried to maximize his earnings over the next year.

5 more runs!

I predict the bats to break out in a big way today! 10-2 Blue Jays win!

Great to see Trout having such a ridiculous start. Hopefully he has some ludicrous 12 win season or something and finally gets the recognition he deserves from the mainstream.

What the hell was with all the jackals howling all game? That was just bizarre.

Why is Paulino a starter? Just stick him in the bullpen at this point.

I was messing around on Fangraphs and noticed that Justin Verlander and Roy Halladay have extremely similar career numbers. Outside of K and BB%

I'll miss Pillar. He has at least two wins in all of his full seasons. Hurl is right, the hate is very undeserved. Sounds like a meh return but whatever.

I actually love hearing old stories. I didn't listen when Tom Cheek was around but the Jerry Howarth/Alan Ashby radio tandem was great. TV gives less room than radio for storytelling but Buck and Pat spend way too much time trying to be analysts. They just feed off each other in their smugness and start making s*** up. I almost get the feeling that they've been instructed to try to put more modern analysis into their broadcasts but that only seems to inevitably lead to discussions on choking up with two strikes. A much better situation would be the active discouragement of Buck and Pat to make any sort of analysis, and an encouragement to tell stories and for Buck to make the little quips your aunt loves. And in tandem with that, strap Hazel and Arash to a rocket and fire them away (might need a Saturn V for Arash). Instead of the Hazel mom-voice reports from the clubhouse, hire someone inclined with modern analytics and give short little insights. Introducing some modern stats and ideas. Keeping things nice and simple. One example could be to explain how much better Matt Boyd's start was than the average fan might think. Another issue is probably Scotty Stats. I'm 99% sure he doesn't know what wOBA is. In the current state Buck and Pat's smugness is annoying to fans who are more informed of these things, and misleading to those that aren't.

Buck and Pat's nonsense usually doesn't bother me but they've been annoyingly smug about the strikeouts in this era to start the season. They react with sarcasm about the state of the game when Greiner singles the other way against Giles. Like how does someone watch baseball for hours every day and seem to be completely unable to consider that the rise in strikeouts might actually have some effect from the assembly line of freaks-of-nature that the hitters face today? Instead of seeing a starter 3 or 4 times a game and every non-closer reliever throwing 86 mph meatballs, hitters have to now face 4 or 5 different guys throwing 95 who also have breaking balls. Sure, a change in approach also has also had an effect on the rising strikeout rates. But that change in approach is largely also a symptom of the same thing, with a single being worth relatively less in a run environment with fewer baserunners. I just don't know how you can have followed the game so long and so, seemingly, closely but still appear to hold some belief that players are being selfish and foolish.

Buck drops a "supple" in describing a young man before Tabby does. You can't predict baseball.

Has Zimmermann been smoking cigars all offseason? A very old looking 32.

The new Sportsnet graphics look nice. I much prefer the rectangular scoreboard in the corner. I never liked the strip across the screen.

The Blue Jays are now up to $45M (20 Tulo, 15 Martin, 10 Morales) in dead money this season... on a $116M payroll. But don't take that as a complaint with this trade.