bigpaulie

Johnson, Martinez, smolts and biggio

Sometimes it is not the extra 20-30 mins, it is normally the flow of the game that is affected. if the game going along, excessive breaks in the play can grind it to a halt real quick Much like a great hockey, basketball game where the refs blow the whistler and it slows the game to a crawl

We have had some real high quality players come through town

I have a hard time using stats to pick something, that to me should be listed like I'm a 12 year old again, its just me but to me its about the players that forged my love for this great game, guys where you stopped what you were doing when you heard their name on the radio

Surprised not a lot of love for kiss my purple ass George Bell, I have him on my list because he was part of the reason to forge my love for the game, to me the first real big name on the jays and I remember the 87 MVP season as some of my first memories of the Jays I have a hard time just picking 4 players, so many I want to add to the list

Never thought of old faithful JPA, he did lead the team in strikeouts

Roberto Alomar Roy Halliday - (Greatest Jays Signing This Year) George Bell and the last one is hard nut I think Dave Stieb

With all the talk lately of sports teams Mount Rushmore, who would be the top 4 players to ever play on the jays, who had the most impact on the franchise

As Shrek says "change is good Donkey" If it was not for changes to our pastime we would not have night games, colored ball players etc. etc. The younger generations do not have the attention spans that adults have, hell some adults find the game entertaining but too long, you don't have to change the game to speed it up. Juan Guzman was called the "human rain delay" for a reason, I remember being at an important game in the fall of 92 or 93, where he took an entertaining game and made it impossible to get into, and fan support, interest suffer because of this

when I attend games, because I am going with my wife and kids, tend to pick faster pace pitchers, loved mark and RA last year for that. I believe my kids and wife enjoy the games more if there are less stoppages in play that are not needed could not stand Guzman as a kid going to games, he made exciting games grind to a halt in my opinion

Wondering if they will go to the double first base like softball, cause that will be the next area for collisions, then it will be the double play break-up slides guys do. Its been around for years, why is it an issue now? catchers have broken legs before and the rule stayed the same, why now?

The more I think about it the more I agree, it would create the headaches for records, stats, HOF that the steroid era created, but its interesting that an 8 year old noticed the difference, he heard the difference then asked why he was now hitting into the softball fields

To me its not a fair thing, its more to do with playing the same teams too many times in one year, do we really need to play the yanks, red sox, orioles, rays 16 times yet we don't play Detroit more then one series, they are 5 hours away and could be a huge rival It would make more sense to me to spread the big draw teams out through out the league, I am sure seattle and Detroit would like to see them more

I was at an inter county game, where during batting practise a player started to use a wooden bat, then switched to a composite softball bat, man oh man what a difference, my 8 year old son still talks about it, and that got me thinking, I know the increased speed off the bat is an issue for pitchers and fans on the base lines, but the distances increased off the bats was crazy. I am of the age where 95% of my baseball life has only ever used aluminum, and now composite bats. I wonder if done right if it would increase interest in the game.

How about going against history and allowing composite and aluminum bats? the juice ball and steroid era brought a lot of fans into the game because of home runs, this would do the same in my opinion. but I am not sure if I am ready to take this huge step, what do you think?

Get rid of sliding/progressive ticket prices, man do I HATE that, and do something more to fill the seats in the stadiums, nothing worse then empty seats

I agree 100%, even more if I could since I am a Jays fan from the AL East Another thought is to do away with Divisions and just have everything set as AL and NL, schedule and playoffs

or the offensive team sends the runners, you catch it and tag them all up, damned if you do damned if you don't

There would be a lot more triple and double plays

Have the batters get rid of the armour they put on their arms, nothing worse then leaning in, taking it off a hard plastic guard and then taking a base, really bothers me

A great way to increase interest from younger fans as well, limit the pitching changes, maybe limit the warm up pitches from the bullpen, all would have great effects on the fan base, but limit the effects on the advertising dollars

How does a team like the Astros, who had a new stadium built in 2000, say their woes are from the stadium?

Another tax idea The threshold could be set at $5 million above the cap. The charge would start at $1.75 for every dollar over and increase from there. Under that system, the dodgers would have been hit with a cap charge of over $150 million. Of course, a team like the Yankees - with their $1.5 billion or Dodgers 7 billion local television contract can absorb that additional cost without putting much of a dent in the bottom line. The league wants to prevent teams from making the tax an annual thing. As such, recent proposals have included several different penalties for teams that exceed the tax threshold regularly, ranging from additional charges to the loss of cap exceptions. So each team could net another 20 million from the tax fund. 1 Los Angeles Dodgers 220,395,196 Taxed 157,500,000 2 New York Yankees 203,445,586 Taxed 127 Million 3 Philadelphia Phillies 170,760,689 Taxed 65 Million 4 Detroit Tigers 148,414,500 Taxed 31 Million 5 Boston Red Sox 140,657,500 Taxed 13.75 Million 6 San Francisco Giants 136,042,112 Taxed 6 Million 7 Los Angeles Angels 127,896,250 8 Chicago White Sox 119,573,277 9 Toronto Blue Jays 117,035,100 10 Washington Nationals 114,194,270 11 Texas Rangers 112,939,500 12 Cincinnati Reds 109,401,962 13 Chicago Cubs 107,646,476 14 St. Louis Cardinals 102,790,110 15 Baltimore Orioles 90,993,333 16 Atlanta Braves 89,986,525 17 Arizona Diamondbacks 89,798,667 18 Milwaukee Brewers 88,837,366 19 Pittsburgh Pirates 79,562,000 20 Kansas City Royals 79,491,725 21 Minnesota Twins 75,802,500 22 New York Mets 73,996,639 23 Cleveland Indians 73,724,300 24 Seattle Mariners 73,499,643 25 Colorado Rockies 71,434,071 26 San Diego Padres 66,022,900 27 Oakland Athletics 60,372,500 28 Tampa Bay Rays 57,505,272 Does not meet minimum amount 29 Miami Marlins 35,720,400 Does not meet minimum amount 30 Houston Astros 21,133,500 Does not meet minimum amount

How about an NBA style luxury tax A set upper and lower spending cap is set, say as an example 65 million and 130 million If you spend more then 130 you would be "taxed" a dollar per dollar on the overage and teams would have to meet a minimum budget, to stop the Astros of the world from profiting on making a mockery of the game.

Was just really happy it didn't have the dreaded red line under it, I'm stupid as a fox