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Randal Grichuk ... he hurt us last night. White Sox are play too now. One of White Sox/Guardians will lose at least 2 over the next 3 days. Crazy but Guardians could get the 2 seed. Then we have to get ahead of the White Sox. It can be done because IF Guardians get 2 seed, that is likely 2 losses for Sox next 3 days, so we have to take care of business with the Tigers.
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Sir this is the playoff thread. Though that being said. Varsho led to Spaghetti guy. Spaghetti guy is not being a great help to our playoff hopes, though we will see what the next 2 weeks bring. He will likely get 6 innings in the middle of important games and hopefully not implode.
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Weirdly they were both 400 feet. Must have some good spin.
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Fire John Schneider September 24th, 2026
Olerud363.354 replied to Olerud363.354's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Moved the firing date to September 24th. Fair is fair, didn't do anything too objectional today as far as I could see. Would any manager out there use Spaghetti for mop-up ? That was my gripe yesterday. Spaghetti is only going 2-3 innings anyway. Today he had 2-2 k/bb, some balls hit hard, and one of the outs was by Nathan Lukes. If you have 18 innings to cover over 2 days, why give Spaghetti the leverage innings. Yes I do understand he was the winning pitcher, but there was an out by Nathan Lukes. Is any organization being progressive with the mediocre bulk guys? Using them to finish off blow-outs, and decent relievers the next day? -
Fire John Schneider September 24th, 2026
Olerud363.354 replied to Olerud363.354's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Monday at 10:00. They can announce it on the Sid Seixeiro show. Sid can interview Jesus Sanchez and ask him for inside clubhouse dirt. Jesus alone shouldn't have to take the fall for this! -
WE are giving up 24 earned runs between Scherzer, Spaghetti and burnt-out injured Cease. You can fix it easy Today - Scherzer/Spaghetti/Straw 16-0 loss Tomorrow - bullpen coin flip Sunday - Soriano - coin flip So if Cease can't go on 4 days rest get Soriano in there Sunday who still looks fresh. Then based on the coin flips decide if it is worth it for Cease to again.
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Next 18 innings. Scherzer and Sphaghetti - 5 innings 14 earned runs. relievers - 14 innings 2 earned runs Just put all the GODMAN runs today. IS NOT f***ING HARD! GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!
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For gods sake why doesn't he just put in Sphaghetti now ? We need 18 innings over 2 games. Much better if the Sphaghetti innings are all in today's blow out. Sphaghetti for 5 Straw 2 to finish this disaster off. All the good relievers get 20-25 pitches tomorrow.
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Absolute disaster for the franchise. Blew a chance to return to being a top 5 franchise. All the new fans and given expectations gave them the worst product in 50 years. Coming off of last year. The 50th anniversary what a complete horrible thing. Spaghetti getting blown out tomorrow. A gassed Cease getting blown out Sunday and probably getting a serious injury in the process..... A likely 30-3 Orioles sweep without a competitive inning. Complete cursed disaster of a season. And what hope is there with Cease injured? (and don't say he's not, you don't lose 5 mph of the fastball for no reason).
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Like what I mean is, even after tonight's loss there'd still be hope if you had a functional rotation, but Max hasn't found the fountain of youth, Cease is gassed, Spaghetti is going tomorrow, Can't win with 1 healthy and functional starter.
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It's not just this loss, or what happened to June, also Cease being totally gassed or injured. Cease should probably be shut down. If he can't go on regular rest there is a problem and not worth it to risk things with playoff chances probably back down to 15% by Sunday.
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You understand Baltimore is 1 game back of us now, and one game ahead Sunday night. It's over Congratulations to the Orioles. I bet they'll have a deep playoff run being on the easy side of the bracket.
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Fire John Schneider September 24th, 2026
Olerud363.354 replied to Olerud363.354's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
As the Orioles and certified genius Mike Elias, end the Blue Jays with a 3 game sweep this weekend at the Rogers Center, with Spencer Sphagheti and a burnt out Cease and a 42 year old Scherzer all getting destroyed.... without a moment on the weekend FIRE JOHN SCHNEIDER! a) no accountability for Vlad base-running error b) not even going out to the umps on these non-challenge challenges Congratulations by the way to Certified genius Mike Elias and the Orioles on the sweep. -
He didn't touch his hat. Was it even close? Why is this game not being played under challenge? Why did Schneider not come out? That's twice this week this has happened, and it went against us both times.
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But if you suggest that Schneider should get fired, because he's not reaching the players it's not taken seriously.
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Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2026)
Olerud363.354 replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
No one ever said Schneider should be fired for not playing Springer in the outfield regularly. It's just the whole way the Vlad/Springer/Okamota/Keys playing time has been allocated that gets me. Seems bizarre that Bo can play second on one knee, Varsho can play center essentially throwing 70 mph and his shoulder messed up, but Springer couldn't have played 10 more games in the outfield? Springer has some lingering issue so can't play outfield. Vlad loses all power but can't be rested an extra time a week. -
This is why the fire John Schneider thread isn't a complete joke. I think maybe 2 or 3 organizations would consider it just because he hasn't been able to get the most out of Vlad/Springer/Okamota/Keys. I mean you honestly think Schneider has allocated playing time to those 4 the best way possible to maximize their WAR? This includes not load managing Vlad, not DHing Keys with Springer in left, not resting Okamota just a bit more (first year playing 160). To be fair we don't know how much of that is Schneider, how much the front office.
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If you are asking why the season ended on a Wednesday it is because there was a tiny little strike that delayed things a few days.
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1990 was an under-rated sadness. Best offense in the league and very sad happened first sad: In August Rogers center, only 1 year old big crowds came to see best offense in league shut out 3 times in a row by Red Sox and season over. except they rejuvenated their season back to happy. 7 games to go 1.5 game lead. 2-5 down the stretch to lose the division. In particular two pretty gut punching days a) Friday night in Boston, Junior Felix hits inspiration 2 run homer, but then Tom Henke who was nails that year (as every other year) blows it in the bottom of the 9th b) Wednesday in Baltimore, Jays 1 game back trying to tie Boston and Boston wins (some crazy catch in corner if my memory is right) and Jays get walked off at pretty much same moment. 85 and 87 I wasn't an avid fan but pretty sad when they put me in front of the TV to watch those disasters. 90 I was a hard core fan with my Bill James abstracts and baseball books as my only reading material, and completely devestated.
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Statistically you are right. The 4 teams still in it will likely have win totals distributed from 79 to 83 and the 83 will get in. It would be crazy if the distribution was 79 to 80 and an 80 got in.
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A dream would be to be the first sub .500 team to win the World Series. That will be stressful. As it means it would just be 15 days of a win, a excruciating loss, then scoreboard watching hoping the Guardians or the Texas Armadillos ** lose too. And we can't tie the Armadillos so if we win 80 they have to win 79 or less. We can tie the Guardians at 80. And we split with the Orioles could tie them at 80. Wouldn't that be crazy? ** I think the name Rangers is not good either, because Rangers were pretty violent and probably shot at Native Americans, so I think Armadillos is a better name for the Texas team.
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The first two baseball games I remember watching were game 7 of the 1985 ALCS, and game 162 against the Tigers 1987. Probably explains my cheery outlook.
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Technically they qualified for the playoffs 6 days before the season ended .... However 2025 was still one of the most exciting finishes to gain the bye which gained them some rest and avoided the wild card and was key to everything that happened last October. They blew a 5 game lead in about 7 days then had to win 4 in a row to close season with the Yankees also winning every night.
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Maybe they would like Sean Keys. He'd be a great piece for a team that does load management.
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Your totally right on this. People don't get that Vlad at his best was not once in a generation, but once in history. Do you think you'll ever see an 18 or 19 year old have the kind of minor league seasons Vlad had. You will not. Do you think a Blue Jay will ever set the young player (22 and under) homerun record? No they won't. Do you think a Blue Jay will ever have a second half like Vlad did in 2024? Probably not, this one could happen. No Blue Jay will ever have a playoffs like Vlad did in 2025. Jo Jo Parker. Exciting. Wonderful. Maybe he'll be the first 50 WAR Blue Jays position player. Will he hit .400 as a 19 year old in double A? No. He is already 20 and only has 3 weeks in high A. When will the next Blue Jays to hit 48 homers as a 22 year old appear? NEVER. When will the next Blue Jays to hit .320 as an 18 year old in State side full season ball appear? NEVER. Juan Sanchez we all love and know he will grow to be wonderful and he hit 100 points less. .220!
