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Don't worry guys Colby is up.

Watching this team will raise your blood pressure, lower your IQ, and hurt your eyes.

C'mon Buehrle don't start your hit parade, hate how it happens in bunches against him.

Don't worry boys the Jays still sweep and begin their march towards glory from here on out.

Seriously what's up with that pop up special over the last 5wks from Reyes?

Jays epic miracle comeback starts with sweeping the Yankees, remember this moment.

Boom shift buster.

Phew, Longo's a killer and feasts on the Jays. Down year or not..

Damn Zorilla.

C'mon CJ get it done.

Kind of s***** that the protest is hanging over this game.

Man this kid has been nothing but electric since his debut. How far along is Nicolino & Syngaard now?

Lol

Yup one at a time. It ain't over til it's over..

f***ing right baby!

Quite a battle here.

C'mon just a single here Navarro.

Ugh..

Frustrating how things can unravel like this with 2 outs.

Naturally I'm not feeling overly confident after yesterday and having shaky Buerhle up there doesn't help but maybe today will be an unexpected pleasant surprise for us.

Yeah I agree, we were the second highest bidder and off by less than 10M I believe? I remember people going batshit at the time to get him & Prince Fielder. You never how things would've ended up for us but we could have used those prospects elsewhere and having Darvish lead our rotation is a pretty damn appealing thought right now.

More just wondering if it's a tougher transition for NL players to come over to the AL and specifically the AL East as opposed to vice versa. @TheHurl sarcastically responded about passing on Clayton Kershaw because he faces pitchers 3 times a night so he's not worth the risk. Of course Kershaw's worth the risk because he's an absolute elite pitcher but how do good NL pitchers like the Madison Bumgarner's, Mat Latos's, and Jon Niese's of the world fare? Is there parity between the two leagues and if so how much, is this a thing and actually something GM's should consider when making interleague trades?

He was a big X-factor in the Miami trade and I've heard that AA only wanted JJ & Reyes but the only way it was going to happen was if Buehrle and his fat contract was included. I really believe the Jays had hopes of Johnson being their 1 or 2 and were open to re-signing if he delivered, sadly we know how that turned out..

If you were AA circa late 2012 and you had the chance to bring a NL CY winning pitcher, two other NL pitchers with perennial front of the rotation stuff, a NL batting champion with speed as your lead off hitter, and another potential NL batting champion rehabbing his image fresh off a steroid suspension would you do it? Bring all these players to a team that was relatively competitive and seemingly a few pieces away from taking over the AL East from the aging Red Sox & Yankees, would you make these deals? Before going apeshit please take into consideration that hindsight is always 20/20 and it's easy now to see that he should've used his money elsewhere given the results but at that time was it really so predictable that this move would implode? I admit there were injury concerns with a few of these players but would you have taken the gamble.. Given the Jays position in late 2012 was AA justified in making these moves in spite of injury concerns or was his fatal error seriously misjudging the transition needed from these NL superstars coming over to the AL East, arguably the toughest division in baseball. Should he have sought high caliber players from within the AL? And would that have made a huge difference as all these players have struggled with the AL East transition except Melky (who ironically at the time was seen as the biggest gamble) and perhaps to a lesser degree Buehrle who like the Melkman also had past AL experience. Again please take into consideration your feelings at the time of the trade instead of your present day bitterness, I'll admit that I for one was over the moon when it happened. Heck all the supposed pros in Vegas even had this team pegged as the overwhelming favorite to win the WS. Was AA justified in his rationale to overthrow the division in spite of the incoming injury concerns or was the massive flaw the Inter league transition struggles that he didn't foresee, thoughts?