Praxis

Imagine being a hitter on the Blue Jays right now. Pep talk in clubhouse before the game: "Ok lads, we just need 10 today to have a shot; who feels heroic?"

Ftfy.

t Y'know you say that, but our bullpen is ranked 19th in WAR and until today we were only 1.5 games out of a wild card spot...

No, no, no. Stroman would have been enough had he not been injured. Because y'know, nothing bad ever happens to Blue Jays starters.....

See Gibbons, that's how you make a call to the pen in good order. Take some notes.

If Rogers has half a brain in its boardroom (and they might not given the hockey contract), they should freeze the budget for the rest of the season and not allow PB/AA to make a stupid knee-jerk trade that will cost this team even more down the line than the last two.

Look, it's obvious. We're 6-0 when we score 10 runs or more. That's the game plan from now on.

Stroman would have been the answer to all our problems. No, really. http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/4/4e/Icon_bullshit.svg

I love watching ex-Blue Jays on other teams, especially prospects like DeSclafani, Wojciechowski, Graveman and Nolin (soon apparently), Marisnick etc. because they were traded and never had a say and I now wish them nothing but the best on other teams. This also holds true for veteran players, including those who were let go or not re-signed such as Morrow, Janssen, Rasmus, Lind and so on. Cabrera on the other hand, whom we picked off the scrapheap and gave a second chance only to see him pimp himself out to the highest bidder later on, can get bent as far as I'm concerned. Truthfully though if we blame AA for the last five years of failure and the mess we are in at the moment then we must also give him credit for drafting and developing those players as well, not to mention some of the other prospects coming through the system right now such as Hoffman, Reid-Foley and Pentecost. Unfortunately the team's record during AA's time as GM has been undeniably abysmal and in retrospect none of his big trades have panned out. He has gambled and lost and if this season goes south he has to go and a new person has to be brought in to rebuild this team from the ground up. This season is just beginning however and there are still 138 games to play. I cannot believe that Bautista, Saunders, EE and so on will be as poor as they are now, nor will Dickey, Buehrle and Hutchinson. We are playing in a weak division and as long as we don't completely collapse, there is always hope. Ultimately if things do go bad I still wouldn't let AA go completely; I believe he genuinely has the best interests of the team at heart and desperately wants it to succeed. Why not put him in charge of player development and allow him to continue to run the scouting and minor leagues and keep drafting/bringing up good young players? This and the tiny payroll of 2016 may be AA's greatest gifts to a new GM going forward.

This^^. Also somebody please tell Rogers to stop the 'come together' slogan, especially when we're busy coming apart. It was old when the Beatles sang it.

Check out the woman in the crowd waving and the guy next to her making the drinking sign! That was funny. Somebody gif that.

I actually tend to agree with this. Fire AA now before he knee-jerks and does something even more stupid that the Florida or Mets trade. Fire Gibbons because he's a donkey. Fire Albers in the name of humanity.

I'll give them Marco Estrada for Adam Lind. Meanwhile DeSclafani hits a sac fly and the Reds lead 3-0 over Atlanta after 3. DeSclafani's ERA after 3⅓ games? 0.93. Addendum: That got busted up quickly - 3-2 with the Atlanta pitcher hitting a double!

Am I missing something? In an offseason where Scherzer, Lester, Shields, Santana, McCarthy, Miller, Robertson etc. etc. were available to the highest bidder we do jack s***, but now we're willing to blow our load and presumably a significant number of prospects on Cole Hamels? If true, this is just batshit crazy.

Yep, sorry. I have a pretty good stream at the moment at this link: http://streamhd.eu/stream/watch-live-streaming/New-York-Mets-vs-New-York-Yankees/1/597. I cannot believe TSN - do we really need 4 of their 5 channels to watch the Raptors roll over and die in game 4? Addendum: It's already 5-2 Yankees. By the time TSN gets it s*** together and streams the game it'll be all over! Which moron did the program scheduling for TSN tonight?

Does anyone have a link to the NY subway game tonight? Why the f*** is TSN streaming only the Raptors and TFC until 9pm? Ridiculous.

The odious Royals have lost two today to the White Sox. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Morrow excellent again for the Padres: 7 innings, 102 Pitches, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO.

Woj blew up real good vs A's in 4th (has given up 5 runs in 4 innings to this point), Graveman apparently has been sent down to AAA and Morrow has pitched 6 strong innings allowing just one run so far to the Dodgers.

Looking forward to watching Morrow and Woj. Should be fun. DeSclafani pitched well for the Reds over 5 but was badly let down by his defense.

Longoria's f***ing toying with us now.

Since the AA era began our record against TB is 38-61. Prior to that we were 103-100.

It's that far away? Thank f***.

Is it wrong to long for the days of J. A. Happ?

You forgot a complete bust of a starting pitcher and a personal caddy who eats up a roster spot for the knuckle-baller.

Yes, but if it's Montreal I could live a lot easier with that. I really miss the days of watching Jays/Expos back to back.