Robert Ray just went 8 innings (and counting), 3 hits, 1 run, 1 walk. He ain't going anywhere. I know it was just against the White Sox, but he bought himself another start. What a feel-good story!
So it's gonna be Halladay, Tallet, Cecil and Ray... and I'd be shocked if Richmond is still a starter after his next start. Well, I dunno, if someone's dumb enough to throw 9 right handers at him he could dominate, and I guess it's possible Arnsberg used the week to teach him something.
Also, Bugs!!!! You hate A.J. Pierzynski, right? Because Cito Gaston is pretty much ending his fucking career in the bottom of the 8th here today, haw haw haw. Cito's a fuckin' assassin.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:41 pm
by Bugs
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Also, Bugs!!!! You hate A.J. Pierzynski, right? Because Cito Gaston is pretty much ending his fucking career in the bottom of the 8th here today, haw haw haw. Cito's a fuckin' assassin.
You're damn right I do. What happened? I missed the last few innings.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:44 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Basically, things were not looking particularly good for the home 9. Vernon gets on base and easily steals second on A.J. Lind golfs a shot into right (IIRC) which scores Vernon, making it 1-1. The next play is scored as a wild pitch, but I recall the announcers discrediting Pierzynski for it, and Lind goes to third.
Jose Bautista singles to score Lind, making it 2-1 Jays, and then Bautista steals second as well. Haw haw haw!
Too bad Barrett was on the DL, woulda been great to pinch hit him at the end as a final fuck-you.
The big thing going on with the Jays is that they are about to trade the best player -- Roy Halladay -- in franchise history.
Oh, they have the money to pay him. Rogers Communications is filthy rich.
Oh, they have the ability to surround him with superior talent. The team desperately needed another big bat in the lineup. When 20-year-old Travis Snider had to be sent to the minor leagues, J.P. Ricciardi (the Jays' general manager) was forced to promote older guys from the minors and sign David Dellucci. None of those options panned out. Rather than just get the team a DH in the off-season (when sluggers were going for record-low prices), ownership was content to do nothing.
So, all the problems were easily fixed, the fans are just witnessing the worst ownership in baseball fuck this up.
Roy Halladay has been the best thing about the Toronto Blue Jays since the strike in 94. And it looks like he's on the way out. I know I've got 99 other problems right now, but to not even have baseball? What a terrible summer.
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:15 pm
by Bugs
I'm with ya, man. I've never in my life thought to myself in the month of July: "Man, I can't wait for football to start."
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:45 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
It's just bullshit. How much better would this team be if they had just signed a GODDAMN DH? (The answer is: much, much better.)
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:18 am
by Bugs
RawbB, I'm in Boston this week for work, and had to take this picture, on both our behalf. Enjoy.
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:49 am
by Bugs
Soooo... Rios is gone, on waivers, to the White Sox. In return, the Jays get... out of paying the remaining $60M on his contract. Now, this makes sense from a financial and baseball standpoint. But why is it that what passes for making financial and baseball sense is usually the act undoing something stupid Ricciardi did years ago?
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:53 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Yeah, the lies started already. "This is not a salary dump!" Ricciardi, you lying fuck, you got NO PLAYERS BACK. What the fuck else is it?
I don't even know what is and isn't his decision any more.
And there's no way that money's being re-invested back into the team. No fucking way. My guess is that payroll is $40 mill next season. That's why there needs to be a salary cap and floor... to stop sleazebag fucking owners like what the Jays have from gutting their team and being condescending about it when it happens.
It fucking kills me that Wells is going to cost us Roy AND Rios. From what I've read, it was not J.P.'s idea to sign Wells to that albatross. It was ownership. Ted and whoever.
Well, rather than take responsibility for it, and sell the goddamn team, they are now keeping Wells (the second-worst position player in baseball this year, after the catcher for the Rays, Dioneer Navarro) and getting rid of every other asset with value. I love how nobody in the history of upper management has ever taken responsibility for anything, ever, in this country.
Er, on this continent. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:17 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Roy Halladay's 1-hit, complete game shutout of the Yankees will be the only memorable thing about this fucking season. Aside from the fact that they were one fucking DH away from competing and making things interesting. Fuck baseball. The Yanks are good as a foil for your own dudes, I'll give them that much.
I was prepared to say that the Jays have the worst ownership in sports *right now*, but I've been following the HBO show on the Bengals (not watching it, I can't find it anywhere, but following threads on it) and while the Jays' ownership is bad, man... they ain't that bad.
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:05 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Last night, Blue Jays DH Adam Lind hit three home runs. Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon hit him during his 4th plate appearance, robbing the fans of a chance to see those two square off.
(Papelbon is the kind of guy you can only like if he's on your team. He's as dumb as an empty box of rocks and just as obnoxious. If he played for the Jays I would care about neither of those things.)
The Sox put out a AA team tonight, having clinched a playoff spot. The only guy on the team who'd be anywhere near a playoff lineup was David Ortiz.
WHOM ROY PLUNKED AFTER A PERFECT FIRST INNING
Roy went on to pitch no-hit ball into the sixth inning, finishing with a 3-hit complete game shut out. It would have been great if he went through 28 guys with one retaliatory plunking (and to Ortz's and Roy's credit, they were professionals about the whole thing).
I've sort of resigned myself to the fact that he won't be with the Jays next year, I just hope he doesn't go to another team in the AL East. I don't ask for much. I am directly asking for that.
I'm going to refrain from making statements like, "it's his last game as a Jay" or whatever, as I got that out of my system during the All-Star game. He's easily the best Blue Jay of all-time and best player I've ever followed. I hope he's on the team long enough for the series at Colorado next year.
And Cntl-F for my name. APPLEKEY-FAG for it if you're on a Mac.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:51 pm
by pinback
How's it goin'?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:14 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
I know I should say a few words about how the greatest baseball player I've ever followed is no longer with my team. Sometimes I hate feeling obligated to write, like regarding the New Orleans trip.
Oh, I've got a thousand words in me, though.
Suffice it to say that we may very well get three prospects back that will be instrumental in a future championship.
But baseball is fundamentally broken if certain teams can have guys finish their entire careers in one uniform, and others can't. It disgusts me. Roy took signed two extensions for less-than-market value to stay in Toronto. I am so angry that I never got to see him pitch in a Jays uniform.
He'll pitch in Colorado some day, though. And I'll be there. The Rockies would be my "second favorite" team (though the distance is so great, it's better to say that they are the only team in baseball, with maybe my brother's Mariners, that I don't actively loathe) but when he eventually comes here to pitch, I'll be in the stands.
(Probably with a Chinese knockoff HALLADAY 32 jersey, bought specifically to not give MLB any money.)
But yeah, this is the worst thing that's ever happened in sports, at least to me. And it's the work of one guy - Paul Beeston, chief operating officer of the Jays - and the pieces of shit that make up the board of directors for Rogers Communications. Jays fans were robbed of something special because these assholes couldn't surround Roy with good players. I don't blame Roy in the least for finally accepting a trade. He's the best at what he does, and it was unacceptable that ownership couldn't put a better team around him.
It sucks. It hurts less than if it came out of the blue (I had been expecting this for half a year now) but still, I doubt anything in sports could be worse, unless it was the Saints moving or something.
When we get older, we're sort of looking for excuses not to follow certain teams and sports. I'm not quite there yet, but honestly, baseball is fundamentally broken. It should not be this way. It is uninteresting this way. I can't think of any other sport where, even if you have one of the five-best players in it, you have no shot at making the playoffs before the season starts.
That being said, I hope Roy wins a championship in Philly, and resigns wiith the Jays right as the players we got last night enter their prime.
What a nice little pipe dream.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:18 pm
by Bugs
If he wins with Philly, I will understand how Bruins fans felt when Ray Bourque finally won a Stanley Cup w/ the Avalanche after 537 seasons in Boston. Unlike you, Robb, there are only a handful of teams in MLB that I actively hate: The Yankees, Red Sox and Phillies (which made the world series fun this year; all i rooted for was both team buses to crash into each other).
I guess this is less painful than if he went somewhere else in the division, but I was holding out hope that the Angels would get him, a team that I sort of like (Scioscia's the man) and even pulled for in that WS against the Giants.
You're right, this is absolutely the result of that Cadre of Fuckwads DBA the Jays Front Office, for the last decade, being completely incapable of finding their own assholes with both hands and a flashlight, much less putting together a winning team.
This sucks, but I too have seen this coming for a while, and what helps me sleep at night is that, for Blue Jays baseball to return to prominence, things needed to get a lot worse before they could get better.
We did get some intriguing prospects in the deal, particularly Drabek. A+++++ WOULD DRAFT AGAIN pitching prospects always pan out, right? They never become complete busts, right?
(sigh)
Be happy, Robb, at least you have the Saints. Between the Bills and Jays, I wonder if either of my favorite teams will ever win a championship before the franchises are moved and stadiums are imploded.
Given the late start to his dominant career, will we see Roy in the HoF one day? And what hat will he be wearing?
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:13 pm
by content beaver
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:59 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
All right, if I can't write something about Roy leaving, then I can't write about anything.
