uh-oh and Six
The streak is as bad as any that my wife has washed out of my shorts, bless her heart...maybe she can help in some way to do away with the Blue Jays nasty streak.
more to come...
May 2009
Say it 'aint so Joe
From all angles they look the same but with a 4 game losing streak.
So its been up and down lately with a sweep by Boston and then a rare night where Doc Halladay does not get the win. I really don't want to reflect much except to say to all the Shea Hillenbrands that the ship is not sinking.
Prior to the Boston sweep there was an intriguing stat for this season that the Jays have a poor record in series when the Doc doesn't pitch, which was most evident in Boston. So a sweep carried over into the dumbest thing in baseball, inter-league play and a 1-0 loss to the Braves on Cito's first game back since the World Series win in 1992.
Inter league Sucks!
With such an obvious advantage to the NL team there should be changes. I concede that states like New York, California, Florida, and Texas with teams in both leagues likely appreciate inter-league so there needs to be some sort of governors vote which teams participate with some teams having an opt out option. However, I also think that the inter-league play should be used as the determining factor in which league is awarded with home advantage in the World Series instead of an exhibition game.
Regardless, with Casey Janssen looking to start his first game this year for the Blue Jays after dominating the minors and Ricky Romero back to pick up where he left off this season hardly looks like a fluke, and the Blue Jays can get back to winning series.
I wish Travis Snider all the best in getting out his rut and swinging the bat like he can. Enjoy the game tonight.
That's all for now from yours faithfully.......Shine on, Cheers and Smell you later!
wait till 2010...
I just wanted to point that what helps make this season even better than the obvious great play by your Toronto Blue Jays was the low expectations from the media and anyone who gives a damn about baseball; and pretty much the entire off off season the general message by people in know was wait till 2010.
Yesterday the Jays, according to the prophetic ramblings of baseball people, had made it posting a 20-10 record.
God Bless Cito Gaston.
THIS IS THE YEAR
Shine on Blue Jays, Shine on.
It's a good day to be a Blue Jays fan
It's a good day
to be a Blue Jays fan.
A reporter asked Cito Gaston this past
weekend if he could believe that the Blue Jays would get off to this kind of
start, and he as the now and then manager for your Toronto Blue Jays simply
said, 'yes'.
Of course Cito knows all about this kind
of Blue Jays start because it was his Blue Jays team in 1992 that got off to a
21-9 start, so as good as this year's team has been out of the gate Cito has
managed a better start, and in the same uniform too.
So how does this team keep it going?
That's simple, the bats need to keep hitting the crap out of the
ball and give rest to the bull pen and not just when Doc is pitching.
And speaking of hitting the crap out of
the baseball, Travis Snider needs not to reinvent himself for the show and to
do what got him to the bigs, which is hit the crap out of the baseball; and
more time spend in Toronto will mitigate such hitting slumps which Snider has
recently experienced going 0-32. Fortunately he has the advantage over every
other rookie with 2.5 men in his back pocket to iron out any wrinkles.
The two and a half men I speak of are
Gene Tenace, Dwayne Murphy and the .5 in Cito Gaston which is whom Cito has
labelled his coaching staff; and, though Geno is the official hitting coach,
Cito was the hitting coach in the late 1980's prior to managing the team to
back to back World Series championships.
I'm going to try something new here
today. I'm going to find some negatives (I'm not the best at this so bare with
me):
A rookie patchwork pitching staff with
McGowan, Marcum, Litsch, Romero, Janssen, and Ryan all on the DL, replace with
the untested Cecil, Romero, Ray and inconsistent Purcey. And
with a starting staff that seems to be on a limited pitch count there is
an inevitability that a highly taxed bullpen will run out of gas
sooner rather than later.
Although there are some guys looking to
have a career year there are several batters that are not sprinting out of the
gate like their teammates; though Wells is a career slow starter, his slow
start seems to have affected Rios and Overbay. What concerns you humble
narrator is the fact that anyone who gives a damn about the Jays is aware that
these three guys should be leading the charge under the tutelage of
the 2 and half men due to their skills and abilities and the fact that they
came out a Cito-Geno spring training.
So the doomsday scenario that
was dibbled all preseason seems to be a farce. In what is supposed to be
a gutter of a year waiting for our M&M's to return to the mount and allow
the kids to take their lumps, there are some good young arms holding the fort
and are giving us something to believe in. There is some
serious veteran depth on the bench with Millar and Bautista, and
with the 2 and a half men in charge of the offense there is a good reason to
believe that this is not a coincidence and that our most talented players,
Wells and Rios, will have a year to remember whilst in the care of Cito and
Geno. Oh and about BJ Ryan, well whatever will be will be and he has time
to find himself with Scotty Downs a solid interim closer.
That's all for now from yours
faithfully......Shine on, Cheers and Smell you later!
