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  1. Dick_Pole
    Oh gosh, you're one of THOSE guys. Look, the reason why Toronto doesn't have an NFL team here isn't because of the Argos, but the Bills. The Bills either move here or it's an uphill battle to get a team which includes compensating the Bills for losing >25% of their fan/revenue base. Do people really think the NFL is calling up the front office of the CFL and asking permission to put an NFL team here? Plus I doubt the existence of an NFL team would have a major impact on the CFL team, despite popular opinion to the contrary. Two very different fan bases.
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    Seemed to work well completely fine for St. Louis. Again, it's a defeatist attitude promoted by front offices who like pointing to convenient excuses (I'm thinking Ricciardi). This isn't the NBA or NHL where it somewhat makes sense to tank to try to get a generational talent. How, oh, how did the Jays ever develop talent like Hentgen, Olerud, Delgado, Green and Gonzalez along with guys they traded like Hill, Whiten, Karsay and Kent when the lowest win total for the team between 1983-1993 was 86?
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    I strongly disagree. BS excuses from lousy front offices and fan bases lap it up. Washington sucked for how many years to stack its roster with #1 picks and still can't get much of anywhere. Meanwhile the Cardinals have had one losing season this century. Even if you look at a team like Houston, I still would not want the Jays to stink on purpose just for high picks. Given the choice of 3 years of 60-102 or 81-81, I will take 81-81 every time.
  4. Dick_Pole
    LOL at all the people blaming the f***ing Argos for years that there was no grass at the Dome. Then the comments that came with it hoping that Canada's oldest football team would be pulverized out of existence. Good to see the truth finally came out. EDIT: North America's oldest football team, IIRC. And Beeston's convenient scapegoat as he slithers away.
  5. Dick_Pole
    Nope hasn't happened...though I have seen people jiggle themselves around a bit, like the dad sits behind me and the kid takes his seat. Actually I think it's the people in front who have a worse time. Knees to the head and all. Back when the Jays weren't popular and the row in front of me was empty, the seats are perfectly built so my legs can usurp that space.
  6. Dick_Pole
    I'm 6'8...I don't find the seats at RC to be particularly bad...at least not that much worse than anywhere else. It's funny that smaller people are complaining more than larger ones. I guess guys my size or close to it are just used to being squeezed and live their life around it while the 6'2 and under midgets are introduced to the unpleasant experience of contorting their bodies to fit into a seat for the first time in their lives at the RC.
  7. Dick_Pole
    Within 2 or 3 years Lawrie will be back with the Jays, probably as a buy low candidate on a one year contract.
  8. Dick_Pole
    Good for him! Let's hope it happens, it can only be a boost for the team. You're missing one big caveat...if Goins is consistently used as a late inning defensive replacement (though with Travis and Tulo this doesn't really make a lot of sense), he could put up 0.5 WAR over maybe 100-150 PA which would translate to 2.5 over 600 simply because an abnormally high proportion of his playing time is spent on defense. I don't recall you saying the 600 PA have to take place in one year. Cheating rules.
  9. Dick_Pole
    Offseason 2013-15: A candid debate over who will be the starting 2B/SS and backup 3B for about 60 games out of an excellent pool of Goins, Kawasaki, Izturis, Bonafacio, Valencia and Tolleson. Offseason 2016: People are wondering why sign Barney when the Jays have Goins as backup/AAA fodder. How times have changed for the better. There is nothing, nothing, NOTHING to complain or debate about this. Is Goins going to be on the 25-man come April? Will he be on the 40-man? Will Barney be on the 25-man roster? 40-man? Kawasaki? Yes? No? Who gives a s***. All marginal MLB players paid close to the league min who are interchangeable, and, barring injury to the starters *knock on wood* will be limited to 250 PA or less. This thread should be 100% dedicated to the fact that none of these guys are going to combine to get 1000+ PA in 2016 and we should be celebrating that fact.
  10. Dick_Pole
    s***...as soon as I saw that I was going to say the exact same thing and dig through the internet to find that shockmaster gif.
  11. Dick_Pole
    With no context, this is a mediocre move. Three years @ $12M for a mid-tier starter. This is the type of deal you do in February when you have no other options, not jump on the chance in November. But within the context, I like this move. When Happ wasn't injured he was decent here, better than his time in Houston. And in Pittsburgh he showed further improvement. He has the stuff to be a good MLB pitcher and maybe he learned something with the Pirates. It's worth a shot that he could be a late bloomer, especially with this offense where the Jays just need 200 IP of 4 to 4.50 ERA to win 55% of a pitcher's starts. This is the second time now where this team aggressively acquired Happ. The Jays must have someone in this organization who likes him.
  12. Dick_Pole
    Wasn't Alomar the one who batted 6th the most? Confirmed. At least for Game 6 of the World Series. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR199310230.shtml I don't know why people are getting on Cito's case over Devo at the top of the lineup. He hit 108/109 OPS/RC+in 1993 which isn't exactly terrible. It's nowhere near the level of Mike McCoy batting lead off type of egregious error.
  13. Dick_Pole
    I would rather role with Stroman Dickey Estrada Osuna Hutch/Sanchez Than any of the other proposals in this thread, except for Price/Grienke and bumping the payroll up by $20M. The scrap heap solutions will not work.
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    Rasmus doesn't appear to have a lifestyle that would require a $20M+ bank account. So he'll do just fine. Really, good for him if that's what he wants to do. 50+ more years of living a quiet and relatively healthy lifestyle in fresh air while a bunch of his peers will blow through cash five times his earnings.
  15. Dick_Pole
    Letting his team get this far to be crushed and embarrassed by the Jays instead of just bowing out gracefully at the hands of the Astros.
  16. Dick_Pole
    I agree the whole pedophilia thing is taken way too far. In every other social issue - abortion, gun laws etc - there's going to be a pro and anti group and they both sort of keep each other in check so one side of the issue doesn't swing too far into the extreme. No one is going to be "pro-pedophile" so the media has a field day trying to scare you into thinking there's a drooling pervert on every street corner and no one's gonna call them out on their ********. With the rise of the internet they have even more reason to stay at home in the shadows. It's the poor kids in third world countries we have to worry about who are being abused for the online community of pervs, not the kids here. Let your kids out unattended. There's a greater chance you'll damage them by not letting them grow up and figure stuff out on their own than them becoming victims of some random kidnapper.
  17. Dick_Pole
    Very true...except skill set and about 1500 MLB innings suggest he's your go-to guy if he's 100%
  18. Dick_Pole
    DIE That is all that needs to be said
  19. Dick_Pole
    You mis-capitalized the word odor. Otherwise I agree with everything you said.
  20. Dick_Pole
    Price threw like what, 50 pitches? I think he's safe for Friday if the Jays want him to pitch that game.
  21. Dick_Pole
    Stroman. His solid performance today was needed to keep the Jays in it until the bats finally woke up. Not to take away anything from Pillar, but I think the pitching outside of Price came up big in this series.
  22. Dick_Pole
    Just come in to say that I can't believe this site hasn't crashed yet...
  23. Dick_Pole
    The Jays are in win now mode. Any fan with brains shouldn't have any patience for a young pitcher to find himself while teetering on the edge every game. He has a chance to earn a spot next year in spring training. If he pitches like how he pitched the first few weeks...to the BP or minors he goes. If he pitches like his final 3 or 4 starts...maybe there's a window to consider him for the #5 spot. Though I would rank Hutchison and Osuna ahead of him for any starting role so he has an uphill battle next year.
  24. Dick_Pole
    Who hates Bautista, outside of dumb trolls like the post you responded to? I know there has been plenty of talk of wanting to trade Bautista, but desiring to trade a player and hating him are two different things. Most of the argument in favor of trading him is age-curve related or some other generic research-based principle that suggests the Jays would be selling high on him, instead of factors that are directly attributed to his talents or attitude. I personally think trading him or letting him walk would be a PR nightmare for the team, much bigger than if the same happened with Edwin.
  25. Dick_Pole
    I don't take most of the posts in this thread seriously...until I recall what the Jays gave up for Donaldson then I recognize that anything is possible.
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