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  1. Dick_Pole
    I am not worried about this season. In fact, I'm so not worried that I just laid down some money on the Jays to win the division at +1200. You guys can continue to spend your time writing paragraphs at each other.
  2. Dick_Pole
    The Phillies made it to the World Series last year with a so-so rotation. Certainly comparable if not inferior to what the Jays are throwing out there on a daily basis. With the way pitching usage has morphed in the playoffs over the last few years, I don't think starting pitching is necessarily the determining factor like it once was assumed to be. I'm a lot more bullish on this rotation that others are. Especially with the improved defense. I think the hitting is the problem.
  3. Dick_Pole
    I am very pleased with the pitching decisions made today. Of course, one wrong pitch here or there would have had me screaming. But for today, rolling with Berrios into the 8th with just four outs needed from two of your better RP is exactly the type of decision making I want to see.
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    I hated Atkins at that time because 1. he looked like a Poindexter and 2. the Stroman trade sucked. Given his performance since then, my opinion of him has changed. As any smart person's should. I'm particularly pleased since my opinion of him has gone in polar opposite direction of the crowd. That's how you make bank in life. Just like in the penny stock world when I push some obscure $0.20 stock to death, even on a random baseball message board. Sell it all and hate on it when it reaches $10, then buy it and cheerlead it again when it tanks alllll the way back down to under $0.20. P.S. I really hope BTS and the rest of the guys who bought PKK sold when the selling was good.
  5. Dick_Pole
    Yes, other people drafted/signed those prospects. It was the Atkins regime that developed them over multiple seasons. Both need to get credit. Unless you think Manoah, Kirk and Bichette were major league ready the instant they signed with the team.
  6. Dick_Pole
    After 68 games: 2023: 37-31 2015: 36-32 2022: 38-30 2021: 33-35 2016: 37-31 So that's a summary of all the good years this team has had over the last 10. This team is a notoriously underperformer in May/June then turns it up in the last 50-60 games. It's a franchise thing. I don't know if it's something in the water or the weather or whatever. Even going back to the 80's there were those bad starts in 1988 and 1989 and the team turned it up in September to contend. 1998 - which is a year looked on fondly by a lot of people - it's different for me because I lived through that season real time and I knew that team was hot garbage until after the trade deadline. I don't know of any site that summarizes franchise performance by month but I would bet the Jays best month by far is September and the worst one has got to be May or June. Just wait until the end of the season.
  7. Dick_Pole
    Nobody over the age of 30 thinks Atkins has done a horrible job. Why? Because they lived through Ash and Ricciardi and know what bad is. All the hyped prospects except Pearson have contributed to this team. And it's starting to turn up for him too. Kirk came out of nowhere. The PD and drafting part of this team is fine. As for the farm sucking, yeah of course its going to suck when you graduate or trade your top 10 prospects over last three years. Plenty of time to replenish it. As for trades, Jays generally have done well. What kind of stupid motherf***er thinks that teams only win trades? FA signings same thing. And it's more about the moves they avoided then the moves they did. Nothing has been egregious. In an alternate universe, this could have been just the second year the Jays aren't paying Jose Bautista $30 million.
  8. Dick_Pole
    Here's an idea. Treat your veteran and totally capable starting staff as the men who they are and not f***ing China dolls and have them go 7+ every night so you limit the exposure to the s***** pen. As far as I'm concerned, Bassitt, Gausman and even Berrios third/fourth time through the order is >>>>>>>>> shitbag first time through the order.
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    Dick_Pole replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    FVV feels like Masai and Webster's "Bautista wants $30 million per year" moment. Let's see if they hold firm or cave. A lucrative extension would be very stupid but the alternative is a busy offseason and/or many more minutes given to Flynn. Neither of which are easy issues to navigate out of if the team doesn't want to be a laughingstock next year. This team still has too much young talent to be very bad and go for the tank. Even a Siakam move likely gets Simons and the 3rd (a deal they should do imo) and we are still looking at a 35ish win team in a conference I do not respect.
  10. Dick_Pole
    Zimmer's time with the Jays last year was so s***** and weird it exposed a leak in BR's algorithm: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/z/zimmebr01.shtml
  11. Dick_Pole
    The more I think about it, the more Jonn's position makes sense. If someone gets injured, you bring Lopez up and you'd prefer he has had regular game reps during that time. Lukes doesn't get any playing time of note except as garbage time, in-game injury replacement or pinch runner. Lopez is the 25th or 27th guy on the roster but not 26th. Honestly, this team doesn't really need a 26th roster spot. Certainly less than the average team out there. Thanks to positional versatility and depth. And to think all those years in the mid 2010's up until the day the team traded Rowdy Tellez a 26th man would have really helped. Now that it doesn't, there it is.
  12. Dick_Pole
    As for the Jays being the national team. We need a team back in Montreal or in Vancouver so that narrative ends. For the NBA as well. Like our sports teams, hate our city. The GTA is second to New York in terms of market size. We have plenty enough people here to support our own franchises. As for the Raptors/Jays popularity. They are tied as #2. There's a massive difference in the demographics of each fan base and I don't think they overlap nearly as much as they would on this board, for instance.
  13. Dick_Pole
    There was 0% chance the Jays were going anywhere. First off, where would they go? That was all just sentiment around the Expos, the way the Delgado situation was handled and the anti-Canadian sentiment pushed by some Americans. It was also about the ownership issue when Interbrew took over Labatt's. Someone else would have stepped up and did.
  14. Dick_Pole
    I have to defend Rogers even if I don't want to. They likely have the LEAST shady accounting in the league, given that they are a publicly traded company. That being said, the Jays are 100% being used as a loss leader, but honestly it would be difficult to quantify exactly how much of a benefit the team is to their other segments. As a guy who spent several years in corporate finance in telecom, I know a 1% change in input variables can change an outcome by $10's of millions. And those impact variables are either educated guesses or taken from some co-worker "expert" who is some 55 year old dude who has worked for the company for 25+ years and cares way more about his pension than anything he's doing (not saying that's the wrong attitude, that's the RIGHT attitude actually - but not conducive to getting accurate numbers). If all teams were a publicly traded company where the franchise value is proxy for the market cap, I'm definitely buying the A's.
  15. Dick_Pole
    So what's the suggestion? Cut spring training down and start the season around March 20th? With more off days and an earlier start to the playoffs? Because as some guy who is not a fan of winter, having spring baseball games start in February has worked wonders on my mental health over the years. The fact that you guys started a spring training countdown thread has me thinking I'm not alone in this. I don't want spring training games starting later.
  16. Dick_Pole
    Or...you could just not get mad at anybody. Accept that baseball is a business, the Jays are one of the teams reinvesting revenues into a robust payroll, and you'll have plenty of opportunity to see the team play in another 160 regular season games. Or you could be like me and wait for Spanky to post links to one of those shady websites that stream all the games for free.
  17. Dick_Pole
    I see what you're saying. You're hoping/assuming that Lopez with some time in the minors for the first few months will contribute more to the team at the MLB level in the latter half of the year than he would riding the bench all year at the MLB level. Fair point.
  18. Dick_Pole
    Gee who woulda figured the guy who does literally anything for money and to leverage what fame he has left is struggling for cash?
  19. Dick_Pole
    You want Berrios pitching game 7?
  20. Dick_Pole
    The Jays are in win now mode. If the team deems Otto Lopez to be the guy who will contribute the most, then him as a bench player trumps whatever development he may have playing every day in the minors. I could care less about Otto Lopez as a prospect. That being said, I would have preferred Bernard, just from a fan perspective. I like 1.5 tool speed guys tearing up the basepaths like Rajai Davis. And I think with some of the lead legs on this team, he could provide the most value.
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    Pretty sure the White Jays thing was just a joke/callback to that dumbass (probably) Toronto Star reporter who tried to virtue signal the mid-2000's teams. Then you guys had to have a five page rant about it. As for who is a goofball versus who is serious. Let me explain something to you. They are all late-90's early 2000's born men with access to money. They are all goofballs. Addicted to several hours of video games a day and social media. They spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about Joe Rogan. They've had unlimited access to porn since they hit puberty. They all probably have low sperm counts too, even as athletes. Well maybe not Kirk and Guerrero. Likely something to do with them not being exposed to U.S. estrogen-laced food as kids.
  23. Dick_Pole
    Yankees win less than 85 games and miss the playoffs. That's it from me.
  24. Dick_Pole
    K, which one of you wrote the top response?
  25. Dick_Pole
    That's misogynist to women who don't get themselves waxed. Be better.
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