Dick_Pole

My extremely stupid idea for playoff reform: Two divisions. Two division winners. Four wild cards. First round: The two division winners play a best of nine. The other four teams play a round robin tournament, 3 games each. Best record advances, tie breaker goes to highest wild card seed. The winner of the round robin and division winners round plays the LCS. Best of nine, also World Series best of nine because it seems silly that prelim rounds get a best of nine and the later rounds don't. Nobody takes a rest, still a major advantage for the division winners as they have a 1 in 2 vs. 1 in 4 shot of advancing to the LCS, even more playoff games. Everyone's complaint is solved. Discuss.

Regarding obesity. Moreno isn't exactly winning Mr. Universe titles and his face just screams "I have DNA that makes me gain weight easily". In a scenario where he stays with the Jays, there's no telling if the culture here doesn't also lead to him having weight issues.

You all need to stop conflating these issues. Is Kirk the better catcher than Moreno going forward? Maybe, maybe not. Are the breaking down of the nerd stats showing that BR slightly overvalues Moreno? Maybe, maybe not. Does Atkins still have massive egg on his face making this deal, based on the performance of Moreno from April to October 2023? Yes, yes he does. Varsho is the only one who can show that this trade was worth it. Not Kirk.

I'm at the point now where as long as a deal made sense, I am absolutely okay with dealing anyone off the team (or walking as an FA). Hope most Jays fans over the age of 12 feel the same. There is nobody lovable on this team. Back in the day I was upset at the way Delgado left, plus there was some sensitivity around the Expos and some douchebag commentators trying to lump the Jays in with that in contraction talks. But Rogers isn't like those days. $200M+ payroll regardless.

For some folks they could swim to Boston faster than to fly to Toronto. Make sense especially the old timers that existed before Canadian MLB teams. Would rather than TBH than a bunch of Canadians that s*** on Toronto for whatever reason but then cheer for the sports teams. PS. I know I usually come off as rah-rah pro-Canadian because I cheer for all Canadian NHL teams, but that's more my hatred for Gary Bettman and wanting him to get an ulcer with an all Canadian Stanley Cup. Places like Detroit and Winnipeg are equally depressing winterized shitholes no matter what side of the border. They deserve and earned NHL hockey. Phoenix? f*** you and your 18 degree Celsius January evenings. Get your own form of mild winter entertainment.

I've got SF to win and I bet the overs on Purdy passing yards a lot during most games, but man, weather be damned, without Samuel and McCaffrey dude gets exposed easily. But Purdy shouldn't even be in the conversation. Late round pick and lowest QB salary. Everyone knows what he is and is getting paid as such.

Man I love this post. Dripping with that institutional racism and microaggressions that black people love complaining about. Let's come up some other arguments for his "obvious" induction. Such as the two World Series victories, four division victories and nearly 900 MLB wins under his belt.

So he shouldn't ever see his family? Doesn't he also have kids which he should occasionally not be an absentee father towards? If he has such little self control and discipline that he can't handle some time with his folks then maybe the answer is to trade him, not set up a 24/7 babysitting service.

Yeah. I wouldn't mind a reversion back to the pre-1995 format. Two divisions of eight (assuming expansion to 32 teams). Division winner takes all. But knowing we will never go back to that, an NHL-like wild card format is better than this. Three games series are stupid. One game ones aren't great either, but at least that gives a massive incentive to win the division and generally keeps the flow of the playoffs going instead of all the off days for the top teams. A lot of the issues with the MLB playoff format is that the Central division, and generally also-ran division winners coming from that spot, exists. People talk about the Twins 18 game playoff losing streak like it's some surprise. 2019 aside, they were generally the worst team in the playoffs. And even when they didn't appear to be the worst team just by looking at W-L record, digging deeper you see they racked up a bunch of wins against terrible divisional opponents. They were correctly bounced for years. Which...I guess is evidence that the playoffs aren't so broken after all. I'm also a fan of less off-days. Bullpen usage is getting putrid and it can only occur because everyone gets so much rest. Bring back playoff formats where guys like Jack Morris and Rich Gossage have value. Not a bunch of Fasty McGee clones who can throw 98 over limited workload but are otherwise nameless and completely interchangeable.

I have a big interest in both, send that s*** over! I'm getting ads in French, probably something to do with my VPN location.

Shapiro playing 4D chess with the renos, intentionally gaslighting his own players to try to sign them to cheap extensions then pull the fences in 10 feet.

The problem with this reasoning is assuming that he thinks he had a bad year. Team lead in HR and RBI. Back when his dad was playing that would get you MVP consideration.

One of the first "good" baseball cards I remembered getting was Chris Sabo, back when he was ROY. A dorky looking guy who was someone an awkward 8-9 year old could relate to. If you asked me to name a Cincinnati Reds player on the spot, he's probably the first one that'll come to my mind before Rose, Votto, Seaver or anyone else. If you look at Sabo's stats, he is the archetype of a decent average veteran player that most casual baseball fans who watched in that era would know. You could argue that he makes a pretty good cut-off point from "average" where anyone above him would be considered a minor star. Ryan Goins lasted as many years as Sabo, though admittedly half the games and plate appearances over that time. He stuck just fine.

I've seen other posts (maybe yours?) saying that Boston and New York will improve next year so the division will be even harder. Nah, no they won't. Outside of the Ohtani signing, I don't see a major power shift happening for any team really. A handful of absolutely terrible teams, a couple that are heads above the rest and mostly a bunch of 85ish win teams that will vie for the playoffs.

I dunno why people are saying the Yankees are going to improve. They are sacked with multiple ridiculously bad contracts on aging or expired players. More money can't fix the problem because they are facing the same weak FA pool as everyone else. Even if they sign Ohtani the Yankees still aren't a playoff team without a miraculous turn around of multiple players. Brian Cashman got exposed and the team isn't going anywhere until they can him.

You all are arguing over guys like Hernandez like he's going to be the difference maker to the team. It's clear now that this is a dysfunctional and poisoned team culture and there is more going on behind the scenes than we know. It's going to be an uphill battle until both of these people are jettisoned from the team: 1. Atkins (and his team of nerds). 2. Guerrero. If I rant too much it'll just get deleted again so I'll just leave it at that. Get rid of the cancers and this team should become what it is on paper, assuming good health. A 95ish win team that is "built for the playoffs".

I guess Victor Yu found his way to this board.

Ross Atkins is the non-violent, limp-wristed computer nerd version of John Kramer from the Saw movies.

Hurl, you are a putz for taking down my post. We are all suffering enough at least let us rant unabated for the next few days. The uptick in traffic on this website and resulting bump up in Google Ad revenue should be making it worth it for you guys. Stupid fat bastard Guerrero needs to go.

Fire the f***ing nerds. Every last one of them. I'm not saying a team doesn't need nerds but the Jays need better ones than the ones they currently have. I've said all year they pull their starting pitchers too early, and it was mostly met with indifference. This game seals it. It's the same dumbass philosophy all year that led to Berrios being pulled in the 4th. I know that it wasn't the Jays biggest problem all year and the offense is to blame but the game might still be going on 0-0 right now. It's low hanging fruit. They've committed nearly $300 million to their veteran starters. f***ing USE them. The good news is that this team has very little in long-term salary commitment. They have a ton of flexibility here. Pitching is fine. Add Tiedemann to the rotation and maybe Manoah. I wouldn't be opposed to bringing Ryu back either if he's cheap. Sign Hicks if you can. Not necessarily the best pitching staff but definitely one of the deepest. Any decent trade scenarios for Bichette, Guerrero and Springer need to be entertained. Keep Varsho and Kirk. Their glaring weaknesses overshadow their hidden value and make them practically worthless as trade bait anyways. QO Chapman. 50-50 chance he takes it and then hope for a Semien like performance. The jobbers dressed up as the team's top prospects aren't ready to come in to starting 3B. Merrifield take it or leave it. Rest of the guys can go. See if they can sign Teoscar to replace Belt as DH. Rotational DH sounds nice but this team isn't built like that. It desperately needs a Nelson Cruz type.

I'm not involved in this nonsense trolling in any way and have no vested interest in it, but this is a really solidly bad take. Of course any fan of the team is going to enjoy a player doing well, even one he thinks is not worthy of a roster spot. But he can still prefer a 5 WAR player instead of a 1 WAR player. The 5 WAR player is going to make a lot more good plays and have more timely hits, so advocating for an improvement is a fair activity. And if a 1 WAR player plays in two-thirds of the teams' games, at some point in time he will make good plays.

A couple days ago someone was complaining about the Jays having the lowest run differential of all the AL playoff teams. Now that this complaint was good for a +13 since, I'd like to f*** up the Jays chances of winning the last two games by pointing out that they have the second lowest (tied with TB) runs against out of those teams. Just behind the Twins and the Twins are only there because they've faced four grade F offenses ~25 more times than anyone else. People put weight on run differential when they should be taking a percentage approach. Jays score 12.4% more runs than they give up. Run differential comparisons are a lot closer on a percentage basis. Now more food for thought is that even at an equal percentage basis, does the lower scoring team have a higher chance of winning? A team with 880 runs scored and 800 given up and one with 660 runs scored and 600 given up both scored 10% more than they gave up. Does the one that gave up 600 runs correlate to winning more games efficiently (more close games won, fewer blowouts that pad the run differential) that you can expect a better record than the one that gave up 800?

You know why this happened right? The ump took one look at this thread and said "nope, they are getting too positive" and decided to crush that positivity. Had the last post he read on here been whining about the 2018 Donaldson trade, he would have felt sorry for the obviously mentally challenged Jays fan base and produced an Eddie Gaedel-like strike zone for King. In a span of a week you shitheads went from "Texas swept us we are missing the playoffs wah wah why didn't we trade Donaldson back in April 2017" to contemplating the playoff rotation by skipping Gausman's last start. The f*** is wrong with you people?

I was being complimentary when I spoke about your insane rants. Also, claiming that you post long diatribes is not helpful to your cause of denying insanity. No one sane ever uses the word diatribe to describe their own writing style or uses the word diatribe at all.

Good lord you tools are going to cause the Jays to blow this. Not even Olerud's insane rants are keeping the board in check anymore. 0-6 at home confirmed.