Blue Jays 07-08 Off Season Thread

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:33 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Jayson Stark, an ESPN columnist, apparently includes him in a book of his, detailing the most overrated players in baseball history. How a guy who was removed from HoF eligibility in his first year could ever be overrated is kind of beyond me... but okay.
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Ha, ha, ha, a guy who loved the 1993 Phillies is going to tell us how much Joe Carter sucks. I would now like to make you all aware of my upcoming novel, "A Thousand Poles Joe Montana Has Smoked." Gray Griffon Press, 2007 release. I think it really gets into the nitty-gritty of how Montana wasn't even THAT good.

This still pisses me off. As does the streaming video content that automatically starts playing on espn's pages.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:36 pm

Troy Glaus has been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for Scott Rolen.

This is one of those deals where I will assume the GM knows more than me. I liked having Glaus in Toronto, but that's the nature of baseball these days. Unless you root for two or three privileged franchises, get used to seeing the players you get move around.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:27 pm

well you traded a guy whos success is based on using roids for a guy who never lived up to his potential because he chose to stay clean.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:05 pm

Knuckles the CLown wrote:well you traded a guy whos success is based on using roids for a guy who never lived up to his potential because he chose to stay clean.

Oh, bullshit.

NO ONE in Major League Baseball chose to stay clean.

At best those who didn't use steroids were not using them because they'd have conversations in the locker room like this:

Loser Dude: Hey, man, can you hook me up with some 'roids? I need to get up to my A-game!

Steroid Dude: GRRRAAAAARGHHHH!

Second Steroid Dude: What my esteemed colleague means is, "Steroids? Why do you think we would know how to get steroids? FUCK OFF, NARC!"

Bruce

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:13 pm

I was talking about Steroids not fat pills!

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:29 pm

BEST OF

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:47 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Troy Glaus has been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for Scott Rolen.

This is one of those deals where I will assume the GM knows more than me. I liked having Glaus in Toronto, but that's the nature of baseball these days. Unless you root for two or three privileged franchises, get used to seeing the players you get move around.

So says the unholy armchair quartbacking fucking mutant crotchfruit of Billy Beane and John Madden's manboob sweat. Who the fuck likes the fucking BLUE JAYS and the SAINTS anyway? French-Canadian hookers?

Hey! HEY ROBB! FUCK YOU!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:19 pm

The fucking Blue Jays signed Rob Barrakakajas today. I hope everyone reading this eats shit.

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:37 am

Granted, it's in MLB's interest to post propaganda making even the most lopsided of divisions sound like they're going to be competitive, but damn if I'm not optimistic about the team this year. Link.

I think I'm trapped in some kind of temporal causality loop or something, because I get this way every year somewhere around the last two weeks in February.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm

Last year, the theme of the season was "players lost to injury." How are things looking so far?

The Blue Jays are down two pitchers:

Joe Kennedy (death, out for year)
Casey Janssen (torn labrum, out for year)

And the first game is still two weeks away.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:35 pm

This quote from Hank Steinbrenner is dynamite. I'm loving the fact that he's inching closer to a "KNOW YOUR PLACE!!!" rant.

"I don't want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and it's the Yankees, the Red Sox, Dodgers, Mets," he said to The New York Post. "I would prefer if teams want to target the Yankees that they at least start giving some of that revenue sharing and luxury tax money back. From an owner's point of view, that's my point."

I don't even know where to begin.

1. Fantastic, you fat-faced chimp - form a baseball league with just the Yanks, Sox, Dodgers and Mets. We don't need or want you. Whatever "championships" you win will be just as irrelevant as the ones won by the big spenders after the 94 strike.

2. If you have such a problem with "subsidizing" other teams (yeah, the Rays have sure benefitted from the few million they've received, ten years of last place finishes and counting), then let's put in a salary cap and floor. The Yankees can't win unless the dollars per win are four times what some of the other teams spend, so we'd all be happy with that.

3. I can't say I'm amazed that he's too fucking stupid to understand that the Yankees only generate those revenues because of the other 29 teams. This is because he is just the son of someone who actually had some business sense, in George Steinbrenner. Hank is a stupid son of a bitch who was handed over the team due to health reasons. He's already surpassed the jackassery his old man exhibited over the course of 30 years. You know what will be the last thing I talk about, should I ever own a professional sports team? How fat Jennifer Love Hewitt is. But that's what Hank opened with.

This is great. The next ten years of New York baseball is going to be completely hamstrung by probably the dumbest fucking guy currently active in the game. I don't wish death on people, so I never wanted George Steinbrenner to "hurry up and die," so this is the best scenario possible. His retarded kid that has been completely worth the wait.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:09 pm

Did we talk about how the Tampa Bay Devil Rays now demanding to be called the Tampa Bay Rays is unbearably stupid? No?

You find yourself talking much more deliberately when speaking with the muscle behind the Tampa Bay … Rays' … system of $1 fines. You feel as if you are under oath, sitting in some hearing room on Capitol Hill. Matt Silverman, the president of the … Rays … is the man whose name is on the citation sent out by the club when they identify media members who use their old name, rather than calling them the … Rays.

"We've sent out more than 50 letters," Silverman said. "But we have a whole backlog we have to get out." There are about 30 of those, and Silverman figures that the bench-clearing incident between the Yankees and the … Rays … on Wednesday will probably lead to another 50, now that Tampa Bay is in the news.

Silverman came up with the idea as part of the effort to remind club employees to stop reflexively using the team's name of 10 years, the … Devil Rays. (A historical reference is considered to be acceptable, he says.) The internal fines have added up to about $100, Silverman reports, citing some examples of employees who chose to just hand over $10 or $20 to cover violations that they'd anticipated. On the day that pitcher James Shields signed his multiyear deal, he began to utter the first half of that former name -- "Dev …" -- and then caught himself. Silverman -- jury, judge and executioner in this drive for precision -- ruled that this was not a violation, because Shields didn't utter the full first half of the old moniker.

I hope they never stop losing 90 games a season. Hahah, wow.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:08 pm

That is NOT the level of maturity and professionalism I'd expect from someone so deeply involved with an organization primarily concerned with throwing and hitting a little ball for money.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:45 pm

Reed Johnson was cut today, to make room for Shannon Stewart, and Scott Rolen broke his finger.

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:56 pm

Well! At least I haven't wasted any money on MLB.tv yet.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:33 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Reed Johnson was cut today, to make room for Shannon Stewart

Good choice!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:23 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Reed Johnson was cut today, to make room for Shannon Stewart.

When did MLB let women onto the field?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:42 pm

Anonymous wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Reed Johnson was cut today, to make room for Shannon Stewart.
When did MLB let women onto the field?

July 8, 1994.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:44 pm

She can bat for my team anytime.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:46 pm

Vitriola wrote:She can bat for my team anytime.

She can handle my bat...oh, never mind.

Bruce