Howard Roark

It helps you focus/concentrate. It's similar to the street drug Speed, another member of the amphetamine class of drugs, just like Ritalin. Hence why meth heads with stay up for 6 days straight, taking apart and putting complex electronics back together, it focuses you on a particular task at-hand, like hitting a fastball. The fact they also increase strength is just a bonus for baseball, I would imagine that the biggest advantage is that it helps you recognize a pitch faster by focusing your vision/concentration and improving reaction time. It also lights up the reward pathways in the brain for achievement, ironically enough. This is all what I've been told by a friend, haven't researched it personally but he usually knows what's he's talking about on matters such as this. Ahem. High-functioning pharmacopeia, that guy. Some college students and people operating heavy equipment use them when studying/working and they need to be alert and focused. I bet it would work wonders when studying for a prestigious math degree from a campus that is highly regarded within that particular discipline, for instance. =D

I'm on the fence on that one, to me it's a little from column A, and a little from column B. He was extremely unlucky in the sense that many many many seeing-eye singles and dribblers were hit off him this season going by my personal Eye-Test, (I know, but still we all do it), and the opposition had a tendency to bunch together their baserunners against him, (cause, or effect?) resulting in the lighting up of the Pythagorean, with juuuust over a .350 BABIP against. He was also quite s***** judging, again, by my personal Eye-Test, leaving waaaaaay too many 91 mph 4-seamsers over the heart of the plate with zero movement that were capitalized on by hitters who will most of the time, this being The Majors. The miserable, pessimist **** who rents considerable office space within my brain is yelling at me that he's going to continue to bust if we hold onto him, and conversely regain enough form to once again become a soft ace or very good #2 if he walks. Emilio Bonifacio isn't helping matters on this front. =/

I can see it being something of a double-edged sword with that class of drug, I'd imagine that Results May Vary is the order of the day there. Kinda like alcohol was back in Babe Ruth's day, plus correct me if I'm wrong people I don't care enough to search to be certain, but I'm pretty sure they had "pep-pills" back in the 1920's, which would have of course been amphetamines/similar compunds. The more things change the more they stay the same.

I'm quite a misanthrope in general so for my own sanity I avoid anything that reeks of "me too-ism". Unless you're a business/celebrity/journalist that has legitimate monetary/dissemination-related motivations for utilizing the service as a newsfeed, you're cancer. I've seen way too many unemployed 20 year old gutter-trash who believe that twitter is there to help them keep their millions of adoring fans abreast of their toenail-clipping schedule. Vapid morons really irritate me, and social media is their primary habitat. Thus, I avoid that s***. And no, I'm not some grumpy old man, I turn 30 in December. ;-)

Anytime I see someone trying to humblebrag about charity work I want to kill them slowly with power tools. Seriously, that s*** is LOW. Serious case of NPD with Jonathan Paul.

Yeah it's no surprise that it's mostly the kiddies here who are obsessed with that crap. People under 20, in general, will like whatever they're told to like. Sometimes I find myself longing for an EMP.

Seriously guys, twitter and hashtagging is pathetically lame if you're over the age of 16. Stop being such a bunch of fags with that social media cancer.

No Bautista. No Encarnacion. No Rasmus. No Cabrera. They're playing our B-team, to be fair. Not saying we're as good as them even with our lineup completely healthy, but still........

In my mind the worst thing he's done is going crying to Beeston in an attempt to get Zaun and Hayhurst FIRED FOR CRITICIZING HIS PLAY. I mean, that is seriously f***ing pathetic and mean-spirited. Zaun is a millionaire and whatnot, but Hayhurst isn't. You don't f*** with someone's livelihood and ability to put food on his family's table just because he bruised your precious little ego, JP seriously deserves a serious f***ing beating for pulling something like that. I get genuinely mad when I think about it, that punk needs to bleed a little for that s***, and I'm not just trying to sound dramatic.

We're going to ride this thing out, treadmilling for another 2 seasons before The Board cleans house and a new regime begins the rebuild. Basically, by 2018 we might be back to where we were about 10 months ago before AA was forced to go derp by the life-support system for a toupee that we call our club President. Seriously, Beeston can go eat a bag of cocks. Incompetent motherf***er. Stay the f*** out of baseball-related decisions and concern yourself with giving blowhard, self-important interviews once every 6 months or so, because you're obviously in need of adult supervision for any other task. Stick to golfing with your Lodge buddies you twat and be thankful that you have friends in high places to parachute you into highly-paid do-nothing jobs.

Man, I almost came and then I saw we still have to wait another 3 whole seasons before this happens. Ah well, at least we know it's a definite thing now, but I have to admit that the wait sucks.

FWIW I'm still of the belief that AA was forced by higher-ups The Board and/or Beeston to jettison his plan and sell the future in an attempt to bring forward serious contention by a few seasons. You don't spend that much time talking about building up the farm and growing from within and only when you're on the cusp adding in a few FA's here and there to fill holes your farm can't fill, only to do a complete 180 degree turn all of a sudden for no apparent reason.

The Peter Principle in action.

WTF IS THIS s***?! Do you mean to tell me that the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club has been still at the playing of the game of the baseballs?! Liek O........M........G.

..........when we were 6-7 and I could still tell myself that it's early and they just had a bad start to the season like half of the league. I had lost all hope by like May 10th or something when we were 10-21 and everyone was playing like they were new to the game of baseballs.

Man, Sportsnet and Zaun just piling on at this point, I'm almost starting to feel bad for Doucheibia. You just KNOW that it's 99% due to his AVG looking to be falling under .200 for the season, the headline stat that the casuals notice. Although, that list that Zaun narrated was painful to see.........last, last, 2nd to last, last, last, last. Ouch. f***ing OUCH. Ah well. He's still a young handsome millionaire. Not going to feel sorry for the guy, even at his lowest he's still winning at life more than 99.99% of us.

qft.

He did? No idea, I've been doing my best to not pay attention for the past few months.

Which is exactly why the tear-down and rebuild needs to begin now, not in another 2 years once Nadir and The Board tear themselves away from the tennis for 5 minutes and realize that something is wrong.

Yeaaah...................................good luck with that. It's not 1998 anymore. And Oshawa is where men from Toronto go to score white trash chicks who f*** on sight because they never had a father around to help instill some self-respect in them. =)

Half-measures are his franchise's trademark. How else can you expect to finish middle of the pack every year? I was all for gutting this thing months ago. I just know that it's not going to happen, for the fact that it would make for horrendous PR with the horde of casuals they succeeded in reeling in this past offseason. Baseball decisions take a back seat to PR with this team, unfortunately, so get ready for the same team plus a past-it Halladay next year.

There's no way in hell the 2020 Olympics are actually going to be held in Tokyo, and I'm not even trying to sound dramatic. Some experts are actually seriously mooting the possibility of a large swathe of Honshu being permanently evacuated (!!) long before then. f***ed up s***, mang. I was laughing my ass off when I heard that the IOC actually awarded the thing to Tokyo, I mean, was Pripyat unavailable or something? Actually, by 2020 Pripyat would probably be preferable.

My rage at their annual September hot streak is only tempered by the fact that I saw it coming back in July once they were well and truly KO'd from contention. We all called it. f*** this team. Seriously. Sick of this s***, every f***ing year for two decades now, not good enough to realistically contend past mid-June, not bad enough to get an elite prospect in the draft. Treadmilling ********, it never ends, every. f***ing. September. they pull s*** and swan dive right into the middle of the pack. Stupid twats, now we'll be force-fed an entire offseason of hopium off the back of one month of meaningless wins from a bunch who can only refrain from s***ing the bed once all the pressure's off.

You just start following baseball in the last few years or summut? They do this every f***ing year, it's the "Annual Hot September to Screw Us Out of a High Pick Once the Games Are Meaningless and the Pressure's Off" that this franchise specialises in. Suck the whole year, then become world-beaters when you actually WANT them to lose. You can set your watch by it.

"Hookers and Cocaine" was the operating philosophy of my summer. Good times were had by all.