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With the kinds of thin margins you operate on in the post season, losing Cecil, especially considering the alternatives in the pen, is the kind of injury that can cost us a chance to win the WS. I feel a little worse about our starters than I did coming in only because I don't know what to make of David Price, and we got no chance if Price isn't Price; I was always comfortable that we would get what we got out of Stro, Estrada and even Dickey. The offense is the offense, no issues there, I feel the same about them. So overall, I feel worse because of Price and Cecil. Although, I should mention that I'm very pleased with what I've seen out of Sanchez and Osuna, and I was (and still am) concerned about them. -
Hamels is the right move. You can have Gallardo in the pen if needed. Regardless of whether it's Gallardo or Hamels, I want Bello in the lineup.
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Reynolds finally says something that makes sense. You are going to have to trust your roster if you're going to win a WS. You showed no faith in Dickey, in a situation in which it wasn't called for and you showed no faith in your bullpen by going to Price in that situation. You can't hide your bullpen, and you can't hide Dickey if you're serious about winning anything. You can't use Price in an unnecessary and reckless manner like this. Idiotic in so many ways.
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Bringing in Price is the most over managed move I've ever seen. Idiotic nonsense. What a great message you sent to Dickey too: "next time throw a perfect game or start looking over your shoulder "
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I understand the decision to start Dickey. If you can hedge a little and avoid having to use Price and Stroman in these final two games, if you advance, you have one of them available to pitch game 1 of the ALCS. I know you have to get there first, but like I said, it's a small hedge. You can always pull Dickey early if you need to, but there's a more than decent chance he pitches well and the Jays get to Holland. Why not give that scenario a chance to play out with a short leash? It's about winning the world series in the end, not just the ALDS, you can't just ignore the possibility of getting to the ALCS. If you can hedge a bit, you do it.
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Cecil has 'significant tear in calf'
Masterbather replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Well that's a kick to the groin we didn't need. -
I didn't see the play, I heard it on the radio, so I wasn't watching the whole replay of it, but this is the photo that keeps circulating in which people claim it is conclusive and it isn't. As far as that image goes, you cannot deny that there is no daylight with the bottom foot like there is with the top foot. If that's the best the replay showed, it's not good enough to overturn the call.
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In that photo, it isn't conclusive. Show me where there is daylight with the bottom foot.
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Is what I'm saying wrong? His bottom foot is not conclusively off the bag there, everybody is focused on the top foot. It's not 100% dude.
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Yes they are.
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Bottom foot might be on the bag there. Safe was the right call.
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Sucks losing to an inferior team, but that's the nature of a short series. Estrada to save our season.
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Does anybody remember when Troy Tulowitzki was Troy Tulowitzki? Those were the days.
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Well that sucked some serious ass. Hey Dave, how about next time you don't get too cute and take 11 days off from competitive baseball?
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It was the one big miss for AA at the deadline. But it's pretty hard to complain about his deadline moves. Most GM's don't tick off the amount of boxes he did, with the quality of players that he ticked them off with. I'm sure he looked around, there just wasn't a deal to be made.
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You've got to take your chances with Loup. There's just too many lefties to leave it all to Cecil. Besides, I don't want to burn Cecil in a medium leverage situation, I'd want to save him for "H*ly sh*t God help us!" situations. You know there will be a few of those.
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I specifically remember it mentioned during the CBS broadcast of a Jays playoff game that had it not been for the dome, the game would not have been played that night since it was pouring rain in Toronto.
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Oh God, we're screwed. Why can't all these analysts and gamblers jump on the Cubs bandwagon?! The whole Back to the Future thing; it's perfect.
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I watch games on the computer at work anyhow, so it doesn't matter what the start time is for me. I understand people's frustration. Many, especially bandwagon fans who don't normally pay attention to post-season baseball, will be caught off guard.
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Yeah, I'd put my money on the Jays throughout the AL playoffs, but probably put my money on any NL team over any AL team in the WS, Jays included (although I get a funny feeling we would expose both St. Louis' starters and Pittsburgh's. No rationale for it, I just feel like we'd handle them).
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I don't think it works that way with baseball in the US. We can have an All-Star lineup, but it's not like the NFL in terms of national interest. They get major bumps from the local markets involved (of which Toronto offers them 0 bump being in Canada) and then they get a certain percentage of die hards that will watch any baseball, finally they get the out-of-market fans who will watch the heritage teams like Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers. Marketing individual players on teams with little national cachet like the Jays just doesn't fly.
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I don't know, Houston/KC is still more compelling to a US broadcaster than Toronto/Anybody not named Red Sox or Yankees. Maybe it's not listed yet, but I think we'll be in the suboptimal time slot. Also, I'm not a tinfoil hat guy, but FOX really does hate Canada.
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Throughout the season, it seems people were constantly scared of Estrada pitching vs Team A or in X ballpark, yet he never unravels the way everybody seems to expect him too.
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If we're facing elimination, I think Price goes in game 4 and Stro in game 5, otherwise, I think they'll use Estrada in game 4 and Price, if needed, for game 5.
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The real question is: Will FOX force the Jays to play God Bless America during the 7th inning? If so, I hope Torontonians rightly boo the hell out of their over-politicizing baseball.
