TwistedLogic

Didn't this guy already receive a warning today?

Not only did you use molecular and arbitrary sample sizes, you used a different sample for every player? http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif How much time did that rubbish take you?

And Gardner's ******** 331 foot shot from yesterday was the exact same way. It wouldn't have left any other stadium, and there's a very good chance that the Jays lose both games because of it.

WHO the f*** tips a visor. These promos are so friggin stupid.

Yeah it's nice to make those kinda trades where you know that no matter how bad the guy we got is now, or how bad he ends up being, they're still trades that were essentially won the second they were made. Morrow is one. Santos for Molina, Delabar for Thames, and Kratz for Lincoln are all in that same boat as well. Without looking it up, I'd say the Jays have really lost three trades straight-up since AA's tenure began five years ago; Fanky Figgs for Napoli, Johnson for Hill, and Rogers for Gomes. Coincidentally, all three can only be judged as wins in hindsight, as all three players had career years after the trade. The Dickey, Reyes and Happ trades have decent potential to be losses in the future, but aren't as of this moment. And until the verdict is in on those trades, the value they Jays have extracted out of trades they've stomped outweighs what they've lost so far (Morrow, Santos, Rasmus, Lawrie, Escobar, etc, etc).

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Can a mod change this thread's stupid jinx name?

I hate them too. Damned Jeter-cheaters.

It's less this, and more the content of those posts. I've posted on my share of forums, and based on what I've seen, it's just not all that natural for people who are new members of a community to get all "f*** this" and "f*** that" right off the bat. It's just basic human instinct to get a feel for the place before you make yourself that vulgar and noticeable. Sure there are exceptions, but in the case of accounts joining the site immediately after another is banned... probably less so. But enough of this boring subject. http://i.gyazo.com/3f267b6207b9a0a14f4b9af9f6f1a906.png

http://i.gyazo.com/d4b8f755ba7effcedf82fb39c3582089.png If this catches on, I may have just awoken a monster.

That was... embarrassingly bad.

Wait whaaat?!? TIL: A non-moderator pleb like me has the ability to add and edit tags in any thread?! COOL! I am going to have a lot of fun with this. http://i.gyazo.com/cbf58fa85dba5abebabf12e9cc3de8cf.png

Spanky's going to be manning center field until Rasmus is ready to go. While out there, he's going to be emphatically clapping his hands and shouting his encouragement for his fellow Jays players. Kind of like Reyes, but less latin and more buzzed.

Probably my biggest and most irrational baseball-related dream. Not only because of the fact that it's a hundred years overdue, and that a legitimate strike zone would be so good for the game, but because if computers started recording balls and strikes, pitcher's wouldn't be able to cheat anymore. It would very much require pitching to undergo a significant evolution in order the survive. And I believe that until that transformation happened, the game would be dominated by an onslaught of offense that it may have only ever seen in the steroid glory years.

And all you are is a bottom feeding trash-tier troll that tries way too hard to get a reaction. There's absolutely nothing to speculate or judge with bias here, the Pitch FX data shows clear as day that there was a very visible disparity between the pitches the Jays got and the pitches that the Yankees got. A pitch that is a foot below the strike zone isn't a "borderline pitch", and if it were as grey as that, then both teams would have gotten the same calls. There are a ton of occasions where people on this board over-react and flip out over minute and insubstantial things (which, apparently you don't seem to have a problem with, since you've never commented on that), but this is far from one of those situations. People have a very legitimate reason to be frustrated here, and the fact that you chose to drop your miserable self by just to tell people they're pathetic for feeling that way, proves that your only purpose on this board is to bait and instigate a reaction out of others, making you the epitome of an internet troll. Try harder.

I know there was a thread made after the game about this, but I've purposely made this one because I want this thread to show up in search engines anytime anyone searches "Jordan Baker". Jordan Baker, as everyone here frustratingly knows, was the umpire that called the Toronto @ New York game today (June 17, 2014). He's also the disrespectful, asinine douchebag that was known during his minor league umpiring career for doing this. The reason I'm making this thread is not just to dump more dirty, steaming s*** on Baker (that's largely a part of it) but because I want to prove what Jays fans already know; that our outrage today wasn't unwarranted or biased. That it was justified beyond a shadow of a doubt. And here's what I mean; the following graphics are the strike zone maps (called by Jordan Baker) from today's game between the Jays and the Yankees (courtesy of Brooks Baseball): http://i.gyazo.com/aff0020725fe6a66e687e61e6382c178.png http://i.gyazo.com/57eba41c8002444befcc247d4a300be0.png The view of the zone is from the umpire/batter's perspective, so you're looking at how the umpire saw the zone. The points plotted, however, represent the pitching team. In other words, a red square was called a strike for a Yankees pitcher, and a red triangle was called a strike for a Blue Jays pitcher. As you can clearly see, the Blue Jays got two total called strikes outside of Baker's zone all game long (one borderline pitch outside against a left-handed batter, and one a few inches inside against a righty). In comparison, the Yankees, got fourteen pitches called for strikes outside of the zone. Nine of those were down below the zone against left-handed hitters, and one pitch (against a righty) was literally plotted a full foot beneath the strike zone. Whatever the reason was behind this absolute abomination of a baseball game, whether the umpire was biased, paid off, drunk, unable to pick up a certain pitcher's pitches, or just downright blind as a f***ing bat, something needs to be done about this. Because right now, the "human element" is nothing but a complete disgrace that is making a f***ing mockery of the sport.

That game was just an absolute embarrassment to the MLB. I'm going to be more pissed off than what happened in the actual game if someone on the Jays side doesn't say something about it.

When Bautista is slumping he looks so atrocious at the plate.

People actually don't know who Betances is. lol.. no wonder everyone was in such a hurry to get to the Yankees pen.

The umpire has to be in the minds of every Jays hitter that goes out there, that has to be f***ing with their at-bats as well.

Are you serious? http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif What I just said in that quote was equivalent to "f***ING f*** THAT PLAYER, I f***ING HATE HIM, I WISH HE f***ING DIES"? http://i.imgur.com/RN70TUF.gif Edit: Or what I said is equal to this? Yeah I'm just too emotional

You didn't even push it once. http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif

Nonsense, hyperbole and sarcasm aside, in a more optimistic sense, Jason Kendall is a good comparison to what you want Pentecost to become.

Maybe I'm misremembering what I read, but I don't think this is true. That would be his arm and his speed.

Yeah I purposely didn't use Arencibia as a comparison because I thought it would be kind of insulting to Gwynn. Dunn was at least a good player at one point or another. Even then I don't think it's a fair comparison. So here's another: If people think that Gwynn might have just had it easier because of the time during which he played, think again. Babe Ruth (before Gwynn), and Barry Bonds (after Gwynn) are considered the two greatest players of all time, and each had 1330 and 1539 career strikeouts respectively. Like North said above, Tony Gwynn was a special player.