If a bully keeps knocking you down at school over and over and you don't do a thing about it, you're damn right he will continue doing it until you kick him in the teeth.
The rest of the league will take notice and be like "Oh sweet we can pitch these mashers inside all game long and hit them because no one will throw at our own guys because the Jays want to play nice and are softer than soft served ice cream"
I would blame it on Jose and the slide in game 3 of the season, or you know the other times Gibbons f***ed up, or when the Jays went 0-10 with RISP time and time again.
No it isn't, if no one sticks up for the Jays getting hit the whole league will treat us like how KC did, push us around the playground because we won't stick up for ourselves.
I would rather lose this game by 1 run than let another team throw at the Jays because the league for a while has known the Jays hitters as dicks but knew the pitching staff were too scared to hit a batter to stick up for their own team.