The 2008 Toronto Blue Jays thread

by **Bugs** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:30 pm

Well, if it has to be an AL East team in the WS and it's not Toronto, I'm glad it's the tuberculosis devil rays.

I guess Cito got signed to a two year deal.

Also, the Jays ended their AAA affiliation with Syracuse and will be moving the farm team to Las Vegas next year. That's an interesting decision. Are there a parent and farm team further from each other than Toronto and Las Vegas?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:40 pm

I am still in denial, and in fact I think, for the 2009 Season Thread, I will be updating it as if I am shocked that they haven't been giving Marcum as many innings as he should be getting.

I'll probably write a bunch of "FUCK J.P.! FREE MARCUM" type stuff, and maybe we can have a poll and sort of group-pick where he pretendingly is.

Pretendingly!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:06 pm

Shaun Marcum will be having Tommy John surgery shortly. He will miss the entire 2009 season. Luckily, I am in denial, so I won't have to deal with this for several months.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:35 pm

OK, this is probably all I've got on the Blue Jays this year:

http://www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe ... -ricciardi

They start the 09 season against Detroit on April 6th, my birthday! I recently asked my father if he'd like to catch a game in Toronto (with Mom and my brother) and he reacted as if I had asked him to homebrew-up some Čerenkov radiation in the tub. Who knew? I look forward to hating sports after a lifetime of hating sports when I reach my sixties.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:31 pm

Ah, what the hell, we've got fuck-all else to talk about here. "Mencherson" is the funny part, as there are two washed up outfielders on the team right now in Kevin Mench and Brad Wilkerson.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:28 pm

In an attempt to give the season one last chance, manager Cito Gaston is going to pitch our #1 and #2 pitchers on short rest.

This quote from The Ack over at Drunk Jays Fans is the funniest thing I read all week. I don't think anyone is necessarily going to get it besides Bugs and my brother, but what can you do.

Can you imagine how Doc's eyes lit up when Cito told him he was going on 3 days rest? He probably immediately went to the locker room and punched Mencherson in the face out of sheer adrenaline.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:57 pm

Holy shit, I had forgotten how FUCKING TERRIBLE the White Sox announcer are. "LET'S GO, GUYS!" "THEY'RE THE GOOD GUYS!" Just now --

"It hit him!!! YES!"

What a bunch of fucking unprofessionals.

by **pinback** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:58 pm

I sure could go for a banana right now.

by **Knuckles the CLown** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:43 pm

fun fact, Cito Gaston is from San Antonio, Texas NOT from some banana farm in central america.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:24 am

Um, yeah, they lost. Halladay had a bad game of all people. Well, maybe an unlucky one: he whiffed 8 guys and only walked one. Ah well, might as well just enjoy the season the rest of the way. This team is more or less coming back intact next year (Casey Janssen will replace A.J. Burnett, who will walk in free agency) so if they can keep this confidence, cool.

And it bears repeating that Cito Gaston, who won two championships in Toronto and lead this team to its current turnaround, is an amazing manager who should have got another shot in the big leagues.

by **ICJ** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:41 pm

So, the Blue Jays have won ten in a row.

If they lose tomorrow, I jinxed them. I wanted to write since it was four in a row, because that itself is amazing.

But Halladay is on the mound tomorrow, so this was really my only chance to reference the winning streak.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:41 pm

Hahah, they aren't a "state actor" according to that joke of a professor. How much state revenue goes to fucking sports team? What a fucking joke. People will defend anything.

Not that I care if some Sox fan descended into that shithole and got thrown out though. They did him a favor.

by **bruce** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:35 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: - The Yankees play in a stadium with a right field line that is a fucking joke

Babe Ruth cries!

No, seriously, that's why they BUILT it that way.

ICJ wrote:It's fucking FILLED WITH NEW YORKERS. The kind I hate, not the upstate kind. That place, when a game is going on, is probably the worst place on earth.

http://gothamist.com/2008/08/28/nypd_de ... from_1.php

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:10 pm

First off, Matt Stairs was cut and Travis Snider (our #1 prospect) was brought up.

Secondly, I hate hate hate this shit:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd ... Id=rss_tor

It's a story about the OMG MEMORIES the Jays have of that goddamn shithole Yankee Stadium. I love the circular logic:

- The Yankees play in a stadium with a right field line that is a fucking joke
- They grab up a bunch of lefty hitters in their history, because RHP is more common
- Then, on the basis of thousands of cheap-ass fucking home runs, they have success
- Which makes that fucking shitheap "majestic" or whatever.

It's fucking FILLED WITH NEW YORKERS. The kind I hate, not the upstate kind. That place, when a game is going on, is probably the worst place on earth.

But instead, the Jays have to give lip service to it, because nobody has the testicles to call it out for the dump it is.

Halladay is good for a homer down one of the lines every time he pitches there, and as far as I am concerned, those don't even count. Wow, Matsui hit a ball 315 feet. Amazing. Put these guys in the hall of fame. Put like 30 of them in there.

And the new one was going to be constructed thanks to corporate welfare before Bloomberg stepped in. (It may be pretty ridiculous as-is, but I am too disgusted to go check.)

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:09 pm

This is the kind of lineup we get to enjoy these days:

Eckstein, DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .271
Scutaro, 2B 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 .264
Rios, CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .283
Overbay, 1B 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 .273
Barajas, C 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .250
Lind, LF 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 .310
Rolen, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .260
Mench, RF 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 .233
McDonald, SS ... does it even matter.

Yeah, Eckstein, Scutaro, Mench and McDonald all in the same game. WHY THE FUCK IS SCUTARO BATTING SECOND.

How hard is it to simply make the following fucking lineup:

SS Eckstein
2B Inglett
RF Rios
CF Wells
LF Lind
1B Overbay
3B Rolen
DH Stairs
C Zaun (righties) Barajas (lefties)

And stick with it? No, Eckstein batting first is not ideal, but I am realistic enough to know that we are 20 years away from OBP mattering in a lead-off hitter. "Because of the opposing pitcher" is the answer.

It's OMG lefty since Washburn was out there, and therefore Mench was involved. He is DONE. Thanks for the tryout, it's appreciated, he is FINISHED. Inglett's had 15 at bats against lefties this year. He won't play worse than Scutaro in the long hall. Scutaro is going to lead this team in at-bats. Marco Scutaro, who has achieved an 86 OPS+ every year of his life. He is a fine sub. He is a SUB.

I can't believe we now can't fucking hit lefties. I guess that's what happens when Big Hurt and Glaus leave. This is the easiest thing to solve in baseball - a lefty-hitting DH - and we can't do it.

by **Bugs** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:09 pm

I get way too schizophrenic when I think about the 2008 Toronto Blue Jays, so I haven't been posting much. Never before has a team given me so much hope, yet piss me off so much.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:42 pm

Here is a nice post from a Seattle fan that watched Roy Halladay yesterday: http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/1/562249/31-51

I seem to only be able to write about Roy when the rest of the team lets him the fuck down. Perhaps this is because I give rise to content through hatred? We are guaranteed to have Roy on the team for the rest of this year, 2009 and 2010. If J.P. Ricciardi gets another extension out of him, it will shut me up and make me dumb and happy.

by **Knuckles the CLown** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:26 pm

bruce wrote:
Knuckles the CLown wrote:my brother's rapist wit
OK, that was funny.

Bruce

well thank Jim Carey

by **bruce** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:13 am

Knuckles the CLown wrote:my brother's rapist wit

OK, that was funny.

Bruce

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:47 pm

Annnnnnnnnnd I just read that with the day off, they don't need to bring anyone up to start just yet. Whoops.

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