The 2008 Toronto Blue Jays thread

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:43 am

Someone asked George W. Bush who he'd start a team with if he was an owner again.

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb;_ylt=AlD ... zZtZtShgM6

He picked Chase Utley and Roy Halladay. I GUESS HE'S NOT ALL BAD.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:17 am

The Lakers took a 3-2 series lead last night on a game -- the first game this season -- that I actually watched!

It was a close, exciting game, which I don't understand how the Lakers won because they appear to have only one player capable of placing the ball into the "hoop", and even he wasn't placing the ball into the "hoop" properly last night.

Whatever! The Lakers now have a chance, on Friday night, to make this thread revert to being primarily about the world's worst baseball team, the Tampa Bay Blue Jays!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:42 pm

So this can go back to the Jays, right?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:16 am

Have at it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:43 am

Because, I mean, the team you were wringing your hands over is going to win like their 100th championship in two we-- hahahHAHAhahaha, sorry, I forgot that the NBA will make a seven game series take 28 days -- win their 100th championship in a month.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:03 am

Well, I had to take the thread over when I did because 1) the thread was really starting to suck, 2) there was a genuine sense of uncertainty about the outcome of the Lakers-Utah series.

I don't think there is any uncertainty about the outcome of the Finals, and the thread hasn't sucked lately (mainly because nobody's posted to it), so there's really no point to that.

ICJ · Post by **ICJ** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:34 am

Well, the Jays lost 7-0 to the Brewers last night. There's no hope for the offense, there's no youth movement, there's no talk of trading A.J. Burnett (who still amazingly has trade value) for a bat.

This was the year to make a move, as the Yankees will be terrible this season. But the Jays couldn't take advantage, of course.

Losing 2 out of 3 to Seattle was really what did it for me. Just amazing.

So, who's to blame besides the manager and GM? Let's ignore the guys that got hurt.

Alex Rios. Completely fell off the face of the earth. This should have been his best season, and he's become a complete sinkhole in the lineup.
A.J. Burnett. Hate to blame a pitcher because the staff has been so good, but Jesus.
The offense in general. When you have zero outs and a guy on third, you need to score him, and this team is incapable of doing so in that, and similar, situations.

So fuck it. $14.95 to MLB.tv really isn't a bargain. Plus, the new Kaspersky (sp) update they installed at work is incompatible with MLB.tv. MLB.tv uses a "banner" to ask you for your credentials when you want to watch a game. The anti-virus software blocks it, because ohh hooo hooo bloat means it can't just block viruses, it's got to completely control your desktop. And the developers on MLB.tv are pretty much incompetent. So, seriously, fuck it. I'm cancelling today.

See you in 2009! Where there will be even less hope!

Cito Gaston · Post by **Cito Gaston** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:22 pm

Don't go, Robb. I'll have this team in 4th place by the trading deadline.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:01 pm

http://bjays.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/j ... -all-back/

I was reading the comments on this blog and lo and behold I read one that sounds like my brother's rapist wit so i bothered to look to the left and read the username. AND WOW IT WAS MY BROTHER

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:51 pm

Gibbons wasn't what ailed the team, so Cito won't be able to fix anything.

Anyway, Dr. James Andrews is seeing Shaun Marcum tomorrow, so the season's a fucking wash anyway. Man, I'd be nice to see some playoff baseball in the next 15 years.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:56 pm

The good news! The early MRI on Shaun Marcum (the AL's ERA leader) was seemingly positive.

The bad news! Our GM is a lying douchefuck who has actually said, "It's not a lie if we know the truth!" in reference to player injuries.

If you want to see a team shut it the fuck down, just wait until Shaun Marcum gets told he needs Tommy John surgery. They were scoring one run a game before it became hopeless. I can't even bitch about the farm system being unable to come up with a replacement (which it won't): we got Marcum, McGowan and Litsch from the farm system recently, and they have all been fantastic.

Expect to see David Purcey called up from Syracuse. If you are going to be in the town where he makes his first start, do whatever it is you do to hide your car when you hear of the possibility of hail coming.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:45 pm

Shaun Marcum does NOT need Tommy John surgery, thank Christ.

I really hope they bring up John Parrish, who is 10-0 with a sub-3.00 ERA in Syracuse.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

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

Knuckles the CLown wrote:my brother's rapist wit

OK, that was funny.

Bruce

Knuckles the CLown · Post 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

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

Bugs · Post 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.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.)

bruce · Post 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