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Everything posted by intentional wok

  1. intentional wok
    Wilner is obnoxiously defensive over totally reasonable criticisms.
  2. intentional wok
    How did all runners advance? Did Bautista think it was the third out?
  3. intentional wok
    This is like April. Patient like normal, but nothing squared up. Brutal to watch.
  4. intentional wok
    Yes. Luckily I've maintained the grace and wisdom for which I've become known.
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    "Can I keep K'ing at a historic rate, skip?" "Yes." --an accurate dramatization of the Blue Jay dugout
  6. intentional wok
    Not only 11 straight -- wasn't the second streak something like 15 out of 17? Just a dream month. Best stretch this year has been... 8 of 9 going into the ASB? Luckily, very few losing streaks after that Rays sweep.
  7. intentional wok
    You can reinforce me any time you want.
  8. intentional wok
    Accurate enough give or take some dumb luck. I just mean the team has been quietly performing like a first place team despite never doing the wrecking ball act from last year.
  9. intentional wok
    This has actually been the case. Long stretches of offensive underperformance. No prolonged stretches of winning, though the team has been very, very solid since mid-May. No stretches of overall poorness in that period. The team's record is probably exactly as good as it should be given what's been done. When's the last time they even lost three or more in a row? I think that sweep v Tampa. Which was immediately before the slow turnaround. Pretty remarkable IMO.
  10. intentional wok
    That might have been the game, but Gibby is saving Grilli and Osuna for clean inning leads that are even less likely to happen now.
  11. intentional wok
    I'd trade records but Texas has played very badly this year. Negative run diff but 20 games over. Super luck. You'd hate watching them.
  12. intentional wok
    So did I. Was way weaker than it looked off the bat. The big bats should get two more attempts hopefully.
  13. intentional wok
    Just got in. How the f*** is this offense not destroying Weaver? This series should have been a gimme. Embarrassing.
  14. intentional wok
    Just got in. Wow, what the hell happened here?
  15. intentional wok
    Zeke was the unimpeachable lead-off guy while Jose was out in June. Now? 9th. There's literally no logic to Gibby's decisions with the lead-off spot, except seemingly how many cumulative ABs he can give to bench bats over JD, Troy, Edwin, and other vastly better hitters.
  16. intentional wok
    April-calibre offense. Somebody hit the damn ball.
  17. intentional wok
    Patience is not the problem. Solid contact issssss.
  18. intentional wok
    Lol @ Buck's "well this is a dangerous team after all" after spending an inning with Dan talking about how s***** the Angels are.
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    I agree that a contender not at least making a division series is a failure. But a team with Toronto's talent should at least get to the CS. And yes, I realize the crapshoot nature of the playoffs. I think by objective measures a division championship is a successful season though. My opinion might change if the AL East three-way persists. Hard to see any of the teams being legit failures ifif they put together 93-95 wins each. Not unlike last year's NL Wild Card teams, who both got at least 97 wins.
  21. intentional wok
    Ang, when E-Rex finishes destroying his unwitting companion for the night does he saunter to the shower with his elbow up?
  22. intentional wok
    Handling tweezers during an orgasm is probably pretty difficult, yeah.
  23. intentional wok
    Is there not better data on Cecil's pitches on a pitch-by-pitch basis? The stats suggest the stuff is still there, but do the results not also suggest more lapses in stuff than before? It's possible hitters are just more aggressive on the same rate of lapses than previous years, but is there not something to the observations being made that his breaking stuff isn't getting over as sharply as before? Can we really just assume all Cecil pitches are created equally and he's just having bad luck rather than struggling with his control more often than usual? Then again, we only have 26 innings to look at -- but I also don't think that's necessarily a reason to think he should be genuinely better over the next 38 games. Or, someone who spends more time with stats tell me why I'm wrong.
  24. intentional wok
    I think this is one of the few times when the eyeball test is obvious. I mean I appreciate the number crunching, but anyone who states "a walk is as good as a single" is out of his mind. The Jays walk a ton but I'd trade in a good portion of those for singles that get the runners actually moving (which, before the Blue Jays Suck howlers come out, isn't a knock against the Jays).
  25. intentional wok
    Okay so Goins is responsible for the extra pitches, which puts him on the hook for Cecil's home run, but doesn't get him the credit for the strikeout Cecil then made. Cecil gets the praise for the out after the error but doesn't deserve criticism for the home run. That's on the "extra pitches" Goins caused. Okay. Really? Because a breakout offensive game would have reduced the home run's impact. If the Jays were leading 5-1 instead of 2-1 the home run wouldn't have been decisive. The tough offensive game did, in fact, contribute to the margin for error. (Which is why I roll my eyes at the 1-run game crowd who don't realize the 70-win Blue Jays have taken lots of close games and run away with them -- the best way to ensure victory.)
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