Dick_Pole

I would say it's more likely one of his family members has had to clean up enough puke from 20-year old Canadians on a resort vacation so they all think we're drunken lunatics here.

And that's why I started this thread, so we can change our opinions according to each start!

When he pitches well, we must bow down and admit his baseball superiority and how great the trade was for him. When he gets blown out we have to s*** all over him and demand AA pick up another starter. Tonight he was a beast. If only he could face tired, mediocre offenses every game.

He's not lucky...he earned it through good play in the minors...problem is he doesn't seem to get it so far in the MLB.

You're right...I was thinking about where he went to college.

Not sure what you mean...is this supposed to be some kind of White Power thing? Lind IS from the right state for that.

Forget it, this is the turning point. The Jays will win 120 games this year now, then sweep through the playoffs. It's over. no point in even playing out the rest of the season just name them champs right now.

Because this is the positivity thread, I will agree with you 100%

Assuming no trades are made or serious injuries, the rotation might look something like this in 2016: Hutchison Stroman Norris Sanchez And chances are one of the two old fogies will still be producing as a solid #3-4. If there is a trade involving one or two of those four guys, it'll be for a piece that makes the Jays contend today. There will be a ton of payroll flexibility. If Bautista is still productive, he'll probably come back on a similar annual average salary. EE's production will be the only challenge to fill at his salary, but if we take Romero off the books and apply that to EE or a player of similar production, that should be doable. Barreto's not likely to be ready by 2016, but he will be close and may be the teams #1 prospect by then, ready to take over Reyes' huge cost in 2017-18. If Lawrie doesn't run into a brick wall (literally, not figuratively) he should still be around, at increased cost. The question marks will be the OF and 2B, and that can be filled with the increased payroll flexibility.

Hmm, well if it makes you feel better, the poster in question does have an avatar making fun of the expression of one of the few pale-faces on this team. Equal opportunity hater.

People can't get too offended over calling them all the same when they start talking in their, funny, secret-coded language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHXgSAsPzpc

...then we should line up 5 random white guys and ask those two to point out which ones are the Canadians and which ones are the Americans...or the Europeans for that matter.

Just when I thought AA was getting better at roster management....

I've been to both places. Totally not the same. Dominicans are like rabid animals. Cubans are like timid little bunnies. 50+ years of a communist dictatorship loaded with spies and a government with no problem making you disappear can tend to do that to a society.

Yes, the excessive use of exclamation points after the term "Schadenfreude rules" totally implies that I was 100% serious

I don't know about that. If every team did that for every important player that died, it would get cheesy fast. And what's the cut off for that? HOF player that dies young? How about a HOF player that lives to the ripe old age of 90? Gotta go at some point in time. Did Bob Welch get any honours?

Who else here is secretly hoping Price gets injured for the season? It kills three birds with one stone: 1. Prevents the Jays from making a costly overpay. 2. Prevents another team competing against the Jays for a playoff spot from nabbing him. 3. Puts another nail into the Rays' coffin and makes life harder for Friedman and the board members who constantly slobber all over his knob. Schadenfreude rules!!!

Something to think about. The 1989 and 1990 Padres probably had one of the best and most overlooked top of the orders a team could have. The trio of Gwynn, Bip Roberts and Jack Clark averaged OBP's around .390 combined and walked more than they struck out over those two years. Thanks to those three that gave our hero Joe Carter plenty of chances to keep his 100+ RBI a season rep intact despite being atrocious in 1990 in all other aspects of his game. They way SDP played ball back then was exactly how every team aspires to play now.

I like how Angrioter is scrambling with nonsensical rants against Morrow after his poorly titled thread implying this was bad news was met with criticism instead of 100% agreement as he had expected. He forgot that the "woe is me" Blue Jays fans have all jumped off a cliff after they decided to jump ship to cheer for a team on pace for 100 losses

Gee, that's a shocker of the year...a bad player has done a bad thing almost as many times in a short period of time as a good player has done in a long period of time....

RIP Mr. Gwynn. Another one that died too young. Interesting when wrestlers die young it's an epidemic, but we have had our fair share of baseball players go before their time too. I wouldn't consider Gwynn's stats to be overly homer-friendly. Virtually identical except for a few more OBP/BA points at home: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=gwynnto01&year=Career&t=b

I think Moogy is pretty spot on with regards to his guess on the slurve and Stroman's risk of struggling against lefty hitters if he doesn't further develop his repertoire. This is called Marcus Stroman Discussion Thread, he came to add to the discussion and people are baiting him and derailing the conversation with stupid s*** because they don't like him.

My opinion...there should be a stat that adjusts OBP for SB and CS. I know that's part of the WAR calculation, but if you hit a single and steal second that's essentially a double. You get thrown out it's an out. So you successfully steal you gain a point for total bases. If you get thrown out you lose a point for TB and for OBP. Every SB above a success rate of 66.7% gains you a point to your OPS. Doing this for Nixon shoots him up about 50 points from the .650's to just over .700. The point of this calculation would be for guys like Nixon, Pierre, Coleman etc who were seen as "stars" 20 years ago and useless crap now...but in reality they aren't as useless as the low OPS implies...they're somewhere in between.

I fear that once Colby returns, the Price for EE conversations will heat up. Gose stays where he is, Cabrera and Rasmus man the corners, Bautista to first. That's the kind of thought process that on the surface would make sense (trade a glut to plug a hole) but it would be a bad trade to make.