TwistedLogic

Spam in the off-topic thread = catch up I could be drawing a blank here, but who was the reliever we traded (and for what)?

Given that I quit on this team while Reyes was still out with his injury, I don't know if it has really sunk in for me still that Reyes is a Blue Jay.

Btw King, why the f*** the burgers in every picture? http://i.imgur.com/RN70TUF.gif Who is that, even? f***ing burger selfie http://i.imgur.com/RN70TUF.gif

I've gotten numb to that by this point, this team has been "in-between" for 20 years, hard to see anything changing at this point. The only thing we can hope for, now that the offseason is over and nothing was done, is that the players themselves collectively step up. The front office always gets the s***, and almost all of the time, it is deserved, but the onus is heavily on the players as well. Nobody expected the Athletics team a few years ago to do what they did, that was all on the players. If Johnson hadn't pitched like a turd, we wouldn't be complaining about the stupidity of not qualifying him. If Melky didn't have a tumor, if Happ didn't get hit in the face, if Reyes didn't take that s***** slide, if Morrow didn't wind up with some stupid nerve issue, we wouldn't be complaining about not making the playoffs, we'd be talking about what we need to do to repeat making the post-season. And yet, the team would have been the same as it is now. The players on this team still have what it takes to make a contender, I really don't see a guy like Santana being the one to tip it one way or another. If we get him, good I guess, if we don't, I don't really care at all. Out of every free agent that was on the market this year, he was the least appealing to me.

Nah (s)he wasn't banned, I was just saying that there's an incredibly low chance that (s)he is a dupe of one of those trolls. Just so that in the future if (s)he does something Dogg-ish, it doesn't get her/him a ban.

I don't care if we don't get Santana and go with Happ or Stroman in the 5th spot. In a year where the chances of making the playoffs are s*** to none, I don't mind keeping the 2nd rounder. Last year that one pick got us all three of Hollon, Brentz and Tellez.

So whatever happened to that string fellow? http://calibermag.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/pedosmile.png

lol that thread getting locked. For anyone who cares, if BlueJaysGirl really is a dude, it's not Zee or whoever else you guys think it is, because (s)he posted with the same name and picture on PSD as well for a while. Though I don't get why anyone actually cares, just pointing it out because despite the seeking-for-attention, I don't think (s)he has done anything to warrant getting a ban, something our mods are quick to handout to people they think are Zee or Dogg or whoever else perennially trolls you guys

God, this thread... This fanbase seriously needs some f***in anti-depressants.

Wow so it was true, Anthopoulos actually despaired the f*** out of him.

Think part of that also had to do with most people being in totally justified denial that Alex made a "12-player trade" for a guy that wasn't about to make the team out of spring training, and then yes, mostly because Happ not making it = Romero making it.

http://i.imgur.com/RN70TUF.gif

Anyone else stoked as f*** for the first week of April? Not just because baseball will be under way, but Wrestlemania 30 and the premiere of Game of Thrones Season 4 are both coming up!

Or he could just flat-out guarantee the guy a spot in the rotation, and then demote him last minute, like he did with Romero http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif

Ah, the resurrection.

Maybe people haven't noticed this, but every single Elliott article has been exactly like this for a few years now, at least since I got back into following baseball. His writing has been atrocious for quite some time, I guess nobody wants to break the news to him that he's way past the point of when he should have retired, and I guess it's taboo to edit the writing of a "hall of famer" so he seemingly publishes the first draft of just about everything without a second look.

He was at the time of his trade? And he still could be.

You flatter me

lol'd

Actually, I don't know how many people have embarrassed CHP as badly as I have on this website, but there can't be many. If my posts in this thread come off as defending CHP, then it doesn't show I'm sensitive, it shows I can actually stand up for something I think is right/wrong without being afraid of the backlash from the "real men" on this site (http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif), rather than joining in and conforming, like a "pussy". If people aren't mature enough to observe or accept criticism without robotically entering useless "lighten up" posts (funny, for a site where everybody spends the bulk of their time raging the f*** out), then the most recent comments should have found their way to a mirror before they were directed at someone else.

Oh I'm sorry, you were serious. Did I accidentally get some period blood on your Alpha?

In those cases, yes there's reason to bump a thread because there's a genuine hilarity about it, and because both those threads have received immortal notoriety at this point. If either of them every actually f***ing dies, people joining these boards a few years from now will likely hear about them and wonder what people are talking about. Of course there's a good chance that they'll still be active threads a few years from now, but I'd rather not imagine that possibility. I don't have anything against you or anyone else here (maybe CHP is the lone exception) because I don't find any merit in grudges, hate or even dislike, hell, I actually like you as a poster; I just don't agree with ganging up on someone for the sake of ganging up on someone, and I think it's unbecoming to give into him to the point where you have to find old threads of his just to stick it to him. That just screams "took the bait" and that's the ultimate satisfaction for a troll. Better simply to ignore him and let him fester in his own pit of self-loathing, or if you feel you absolutely have to resort to pixelated fisticuffs with him just because he's said something so mind-numbingly stupid that it can't be ignored, then do just that; he has a tendency to give you enough ammunition to use against him in every new autism-inducing post he makes, leaving it largely unnecessary to look for something he said in a prior thread.

The only thing that should ever follow a necro-bump.

I was here. And I said it myself that it was refreshing to see even the trolls have a day out in the sun. I don't know what that has to do with this though, other than further emphasizing just how depressed this fanbase as a whole has become compared to where they (we) were last year. It is completely understandable to me why people are pessimistic about this team. I am one of those people. It is not understandable to me, however, why it's some sort of carnal sin to stray away the "hive" of pessimism and be one of the few people that can overlook the s***** offseason and the shittier outlook on the coming season and say "I'm going to take a long-shot stab in the dark and say that the Jays will make the playoffs". As f***ing cliche as it sounds, there is a glass half full analogy here, because as much as everything can go wrong (which is what everybody expects), everything can go right. If the Jays do make the playoffs in 2014, are you going to re-necro this thread and say "well all of us sounded like f***ing morons and CHP is the only one that was right"?

You think if someone made a bold prediction, and they were wrong, it needs to be brought up? http://i.imgur.com/py2PxcN.gif That sounds like a disorder. At the end of the season, are you going to bring up every post just about everybody around here made where the basis of the entire post depended on something along the lines of "Steamer", "Oliver" or "ZiPS"? Because I think it's pretty safe to say the Jays will be closer to the playoffs than any of those systems' off-season numbers will be to reality as a whole by the end of the season. Since it seems people around here have learned the term "ad hominem", here's one. If anybody other than CHP had made this thread when he did, chances are significantly high that we wouldn't be having a discussion in it right now.