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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    Raptors playoffs start saturday? maybe we should work on a thread for that, fuck why would anyone ever take Doc out? I wouldn't, if I'm gibbons he is not only working 9 every start but he is closing too

    I guess if I am Gibbons I am concerned about pushing him hard after the 10 inning-106 pitch game. I don't know his pitch count today when he was pulled, but I assume it was around 100. Tough loss today, maybe Gibbons should have gone to Frasor in the 8th instead of Marcum, or Jansen as he seems to be hot right now, I don't think he pitched in Wednesday's game, but I could be wrong. Manny was due for a HR with 0 coming in and I am pretty sure Skydome/Rogers Centre is where he has hit the most HR's in his career in any road stadium besides Jacobs Field where he started his career.
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    another tough loss last night in Baltimore; looks like it's going to be a LONG 6 weeks until Ryan gets back, and hopefully he returns to full form; also, hopefully the Jays can hold serve and play 500 ball until then
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  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    Get ready to be swept today bitches. The O's aren't doing it pretty but our bullpen has been untouchable. What good is BJ Ryan going to be if you never have a 9th inning lead?
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    culot4 wrote:
    Get ready to be swept today bitches. The O's aren't doing it pretty but our bullpen has been untouchable. What good is BJ Ryan going to be if you never have a 9th inning lead?


    I know this is weak who gets swept by the Orioles? what is this 1998?
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  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    Get outta here Toronto, you make the Devil Rays look like a contender. I've never seen a team argue balls and strikes as much as you guys. Last night your manager gets ejected for doing it, and at one point Vernon Wells was arguing after a 3rd strike that he swung at. I can't tell if our pitching is that good or your hitters are that bad. Regardless I'll take the sweep, and our 10th win of the season. There is money spent wisely, and money just spent...you guys are the latter.
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    culot4 wrote:
    Get outta here Toronto, you make the Devil Rays look like a contender. I've never seen a team argue balls and strikes as much as you guys. Last night your manager gets ejected for doing it, and at one point Vernon Wells was arguing after a 3rd strike that he swung at. I can't tell if our pitching is that good or your hitters are that bad. Regardless I'll take the sweep, and our 10th win of the season. There is money spent wisely, and money just spent...you guys are the latter.


    pardon?
    Toronto 13 13 .500
    Baltimore 12 15 .444

    a lot can happen in a week

    so Doc is fucking sick last night and AJ made me fucking sick tonight. I don't like the fact that I could make the team at certain positions but I do love sal's stache
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,181
    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/story/2007/05/02/halladay-award.html

    Halladay named AL's top hurler for April
    Last Updated: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | 6:15 PM ET
    CBC Sports
    Take a seat Daisuke Matsuzaka. Ditto Johan Santana. Toronto's Roy Halladay is the top pitcher in the American League for April.

    The Blue Jays' ace took honours Wednesday after winning four of his first six starts to open the season.

    The Blue Jays' Roy Halladay has yet to give up more than three runs in a game this season.
    (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) On Monday, Halladay tossed a complete-game five-hitter in a 6-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on the way to his third career AL pitcher of the month award.

    Halladay's other complete game was a 10-inning gem in a 2-1 win over the Detroit Tigers on April 13.

    He sports a tidy 4-0 record and 2.28 earned-run average this season with 33 strikeouts in 47 1/3 innings pitched.

    He's a security blanket," Toronto manager John Gibbons told MLB.com of Halladay. "Very rarely does he get knocked around. He gives you a chance to win and you usually do win.

    "He saves bullpens, he continues winning streaks, stops losing streaks and that's how you get things going."

    Halladay, 30, a four-time all-star and winner of the 2003 Cy Young award as the top pitcher in the AL, lasted at least six innings in each April outing and has yet to give up more than three runs in a game this season.

    "He's like all of the great ones that have pitched in this game," said Gibbons, who collected his 200th career victory as manager of the Jays. "You give them a little lead, they smell it, they turn it on, and it makes them that much tougher."
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Bump

    Sorry, I didn't see this thread. The other one is being deleted.

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  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    Is anyone watching the game this afternoon?

    No particular reason...
  • culot4
    culot4 Posts: 775
    Another no no lost in the ninth....What the hell was the deal with that dude's meatchop sideburns.
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  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    Well... it was close; and we're back at .500!

    And NOW it looks like the Jays are going to trade Glaus...
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    The gatorade shower knocked out the mic ...

    great game.
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  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    Spring training has begun...

    I know the whole overly optimistic feeling every season, but is anyone else excited to see this team?

    Scott Rolen
    David Eckstein
    the return of BJ
    the 'return' of Wells and Overbay

    Even if we don't win the wild card, here's to some meaningful September games.
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    Im more interested in seeing how McGowan pitches, and see if Rolen still has it at fielding especially.
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  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    kenshunt wrote:
    Im more interested in seeing how McGowan pitches, and see if Rolen still has it at fielding especially.

    Yeah, if McGowan puts it all together, with AJ in his walk year, another steady year from Doc - if the Jays made it they would have a great 1-2-3 for the playoffs.
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    Starting Rotation
    Halladay
    Burnett
    Mcgowan
    Chacin
    Marcum


    Thats my guess
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,181
    kenshunt wrote:
    Starting Rotation
    Halladay
    Burnett
    Mcgowan
    Chacin
    Marcum


    Thats my guess


    Whats the over under on number of games before Chacin gets hurt! :p
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  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    kenshunt wrote:
    Starting Rotation
    Halladay
    Burnett
    Mcgowan
    Chacin
    Marcum


    Thats my guess

    I think if Ryan is on the roster, then they're going to try Casey for the 5th spot...
  • tvismyfriend
    tvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    kenshunt wrote:
    Starting Rotation
    Halladay
    Burnett
    Mcgowan
    Chacin
    Marcum


    Thats my guess
    I highly doubt Chacin is going to make it onto the opening day roster. He'd have to be back to form and it seems a little too soon for that.
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    tvismyfriend wrote:
    I highly doubt Chacin is going to make it onto the opening day roster. He'd have to be back to form and it seems a little too soon for that.

    yeah, not sure if he has any options, but I think he would have, as he came up and stayed for the whole season for his rookie year and he has been injured the past 2 years

    Jesse Litch will be the 5th starter to start the season, unless he gets bombed in Spring Training or is injured, and maybe Chacin being the long-man to start the year, or starting in AAA

    I'll have my watchful eye on Eckstein, as I became a HUGE McDonald fan over the last couple of years he has been a Jay, and he became one of my favourite players to watch last year after he became the starting SS. Just a shame he won't be the opening-day SS presumably with that sparking defence, a treat to tune-in and watch
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    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
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    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
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