JP also confirmed that AJ isn't going anywhere. Also a Canadian kid named Richmond has been called up to start. I don't know anything about the kid but he was slated to be on Team Canada so he must be doing something right.
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JP also confirmed that AJ isn't going anywhere. Also a Canadian kid named Richmond has been called up to start. I don't know anything about the kid but he was slated to be on Team Canada so he must be doing something right.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Odd choice on Richmond, I feel that Parrish had done enough to warrant sticking in the rotation. His AA numbers were brutal but he was way better in AAA, with an ERA of 2.53, OPA of just .210 and 31 Ks in 35 IP. We'll see how it goes, but I'm not sure how the team saying we think we can get back in it with this huge series and calling up some no-name to start against the best team in the division necessarily go together.Comment
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Hm, what to make of this team?
They've got a lot of home games coming up, I even heard some rumblings on The Fan about a miracle turnaround being a possibility. Forgive me for not sharing the optimism.Comment
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Even if they did what Cito says "win 2 out of 3 every series" this team still likely won't make the playoffs but it does send a good message that they're starting to come around. I fully expect this team to perform much better if Cito & Co are here next season.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Man this team is so frustrating. Pretty good start from the kid and the BP holds the Rays down but all we can get is 2 runs in the first inning? DP in the first before the HR costs us at least one run. Lead-off triple in fourth - nada. Second and Third none out in the fifth - zilch. Honestly the offense is making it way too easy on opposing pitchers. You won't win many series when you only score 5 runs, yet you should be sweeping or at a minimum taking two out of three when you hold your opponent to 7 runs in a series. I realize Wells and Hill, two of the main cogs of the offense, being out will hurt production. But the simple fact is they had 9 hits and stranded 10. What on earth will it take for this team that can hit with the best of them with no one on base realize that hitting doesn't change once someone is on?! This was the team's chance to show they still have a run at this thing in them but quite frankly they just proved to the world they just don't have the timely hitting that run would require. But get this: the Rays are worse with hitting with RISP than the Jays are. They just hit more HRs and pick up the easy runs they need to (like the ones we didn't today and all year). They are also much better in division than the Jays are. All it takes is that one extra effective out per game or that one big hit with guys on that the Jays have been unable to do.
I still do think its a pretty good club and the future is looking good with the prospect pipeline we have in AA right now, but that help is a minimum of two years away from being impact players. I'm not a bandwagoner by any stretch and I won't stop supporting the team, but they make it difficult to watch on many occasions. Hopefully, as you said, Cito stays and can actually get a proper hitting philosophy into the guys minds and they can pick it up for next year and make the run we all thought was coming this year.
What I think this has shown us is how important Aaron Hill is to this offense, though. We had the incredible May that shot us right into contention, but Hill's injury is the exact time the team started to plummet. This little hot streak just before and just after the break made things look good, but I seriously think that if Hill had never been hurt we would be much closer to this thing than we are.
Wow, just looked back and realized I rambled a bit. If you read that whole thing good on you and any thoughts?Comment
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I'm not sure what's funnier, the Weird Al concert I went to last night or the fact that while I was there the Jays managed to lose a game they were winning 6-0...That's sure not gonna happen often so its such a shock when it does.
What are your thoughts about the Jays trying to pick up Ibanez? We probably would have needed to trade Stairs to make it happen but i would have enjoyed having a least someone else exciting to watch for the rest of the year. Glad the Jays didn't mortgage the future on Bay, but he sure made the Sox look good for ditching Manny for him.Comment
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Well Ibanez is no spring chicken either but I think he'd do about as well as anyone else on this team offensively. Landing Bay would've been REALLY exciting but it'd cost way too much so i'm glad they didn't do that.
BTW how did the Weird Al concert go? Did he perform well?Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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He performs amazingly. He was on for over 2 hours with no intermission and changed costumes for almost every song (ie beards and black for Amish Paradise, Star Wars costumes for those songs) and he really played the crowd well. It was a good show, if you like his stuff I'd definitely recommend you go see his concert.
Also, nice to see the guys come back and win after last nights heartbreaker, something we didn't do for a long time the last time we blew a save.Comment
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Hey hey!
First ever 4 game sweep of the A's in Blue Jays history!
Too bad this wasn't going on oh say, early June. also JP has apparently made statements that Cito is definitely going to be here next year. If one reads between the lines JP is basically saying he (JP) will be saying Sayonara come October.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Yeah man I'm loving every minute of it. Came out on Monday and caught all four games in the sweep! I love the resiliency in the team to get two come-from-behind wins in the series, something you know never would have happened even a few months ago. Now I'm hoping we can run through the Indians and make it a 7-0 vacation haha.Comment
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Hey guys, let's talk shop.
Looks to me that AJ Burnett is a regular back stabber. The guy is definitely going to opt out after having his greatest season ever and he has a shot at 20 wins! I feel like a guy who's been strung along by a hot chick. We date for a while and she keeps teasing some action in the sack then when she allows it she runs off to a better looking/richer guy.
Meh...
Oh well at least the freed up money can get us a power bat. This team isn't that far off. We just need a big bopper or two. I know it's impossible but i'd love to see the Jays land Mark Texeira.
Anywho, I hope Burnett returns to his enigmatic/injury plagued form once he signs with another team.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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My feeling is that it isn't for sure that he will go, although it is likely. As it stands now I think that if everyone stays healthy and we can add one of Tex, Vladdy, or Manny (the latter 2 would be signed to DH, and yes I realize that is a faint hope at best) we will be a playoff team. Unfortunately, if we retain JP I don't see anything like that happening.
Is this not the most frustrating team in years? Win 4 in a row, swept by cruddy team like Cleveland, looks like we're gonna take 3 in a row from Detroit. I just don't get it...Comment
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Thank goodness Scotty Downs appears to be okay. After seeing so many pitchers go down with freak injuries I was beginning to worry there. Seems to be just an ankle sprain and they'll re-evaluate tomorrow.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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My feeling is that it isn't for sure that he will go, although it is likely. As it stands now I think that if everyone stays healthy and we can add one of Tex, Vladdy, or Manny (the latter 2 would be signed to DH, and yes I realize that is a faint hope at best) we will be a playoff team. Unfortunately, if we retain JP I don't see anything like that happening.
Is this not the most frustrating team in years? Win 4 in a row, swept by cruddy team like Cleveland, looks like we're gonna take 3 in a row from Detroit. I just don't get it...Comment
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