Governator

It's nice from the inside looking out, but from the outside it's a box nested in miles of concrete parking lot in all directions.

I may have just heard my new favourite Buck quote: "Boy Navarro gives those signs with total conviction."

Man it still feels so weird seeing Price in a Jays jersey.

A hobbling Martin is still faster than Navarro.

Good news, the show will go on. John has picked up the package of fireworks for tonight's game. I was going to give him sparklers but he assures me he can handle them.

http://www.aboutamom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ZzzQuil.jpg

You should just go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 4am.

You can thank me later, I'm saving you from getting banned again.

Trips off mound, throws 40mph pitch and gets the out. http://mlb.mlb.com/images/4/9/6/144368496/082015_hou_mchugh_pitch_med_ef9xkj7p.gif

Who stays awake to the end of these west coast games in GDT? Need to know who to ship fireworks to because tonight I have to hit the bed early, my son's bday party is tomorrow morning and I need to bring my A game to take out a team of 6 yr olds at lazer tag.

Thanks. While that may be true that parents jump on getting their kids meds, keep in mind medication is often the only option both based on the severity of the case and a family's financial situation. Unfortunately, therapy is simply not cheap and for any minor ADHD diagnosis, it's often not covered by insurance or eligible for Government support. You apply for financial help but the CRA makes that decision based on your supported papers. So if you don't get financial help for therapy and a pill can help your son with his daily life, it could very much benefit him. Consider summer camps even. If you sign your son up for a week summer camp, for the average kid there are tons of choices, just go to your community centre or look in a paper. There are programs that are free or at least good affordable options to keep them focused while out of school. Many kids with ADHD (or in our case Autism) may not be good fits for most of them. The 5 day special needs camps we put my son in costs $400-$500/week. Last month's program he cried and flipped out each day, he could hardly fall asleep at night because he was so afraid they might pressure him to try a cookie (yes a cookie). Anxiety can limit one's life if it's not treated one way or another, I certainly wouldn't judge someone or their parents because they are on medication for ADHD, that might be their only way to cope with life.

Yes, just like my wife has an epipen now even though she has no known allergy that can kill her other than that time her throat swelled nearly shut with a gap about the diameter of a pencil. Having an inhaler as a backup should be in more homes imo, it could even save someone's life from my experience. Be thankful how far we have come in our knowledge of medicine & mental health since the 1980s. I have a son on the autism spectrum, I am thankful for the diagnosis that stemmed from early intervention that 20 years ago would have been swept under the rug by our doctor. Along with therapy and volunteers he behaves great in a regular classroom with supports. He's not medicated although his anxieties are extreme. Will medication help him one day? Possibly, though I will continue to try every therapy under the sun before it comes to that.

I lived outside my entire childhood, I played baseball for 20+ years, I had severe asthma. Hospitalized 5 or 6 times when inhalers wouldn't stop the worst attacks. I don't see your point? Asthma is on the rise because doctors are too quick to make decisions? Okay doctor blue balls.

Why is that stupid Poll still attached to this thread?

Considering that is tops compared to all teams in the league how is that not great...

Yea playing through a hamstring injury will never let it heal. Though to let that heal up could take him out for the season? I guess no one knows of the extent of it but his running last night sure told the story.

Lets not blame our veteran starters who each lasted 4 innings in back-to-back games (giving up a combined 16 hits & 9 runs), lets ignore our top four going 2 for 16, ignore Bautista's error, lets pretend only our top 5 BP arms can put up zeros every night 5 innings per game, lets not blame Schultz who gave up 2 home runs against the f***ing Phillies, lets ignore the fact that our last 2 runs were lucky enough to come in without even getting a hit. The team f***ing sucked last night and was never in a position to win this game. Blame the manager though.

I always assume it would suck more to suffer from jet lag and having to play at a time when you normally are sleeping.

At least they have an off day to try and adjust a bit before playing on the west coast.

You brought up the 100 win expected total for what reason then? Yes he's made questionable decisions throughout the season but to suggest it has cost the team many games is just wrong. If a pitcher gives up multiple home runs in an inning against one of the worst slugging teams in the majors that's on him. There are a lot more to blame on this loss than a mere footnote on Gibbons BP choice. It was the 5th inning while down 4-1 with 2 outs nobody on for Revere & Pennington, I'm pretty sure he didn't expect them to scratch across a run when he chose to warm up Schultz.

Depending how you define 'good', Schultz is at least league average. I'm not saying it was the right move, but I think you are being overcritical. Basing where they should be in the standings from our run differential and suggesting Gibbons will have cost the team many of those games is rubbish.

There were ppl wanting Schultz as the setup man 2 months ago. He's not a terrible pitcher and we had 5 innings to throw again in a game we are losing. If Schultz threw a shutdown inning no one would say anything.

Don't they have a 7-man pen? I think many of you are overreacting and pinning this loss on Gibbons is a bit much. You can't expect our bp to shutdown 5 innings/game back to back and if they did, then OK it's a tie game. FYI we got 2 runs late in the game without getting a hit, we were lucky the score wasn't worse. The team played awful.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/4th.gif

Pitcher throws the ball away and Buck says Jays got a bad break. Lucky to be on 2nd...