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oh-9 the season
The birds are singing and fish are jumpin’ surely spring is in the air.
Happy belated Birthday Day Cito, did you get a little Irish that day?
I trust that you are enjoying life relevent to what you may deem to be well, and if you ever want advice how to kick that up a notch gimmie a buzz.
So I started the new year with some questions, which I think most fans do at least inwardly, and I wanted to put some thought into these onions of mine. Today we’ll disect the most important question.
How many games are the Jays gonig to win? That there is the main question, which from I gather doesn’t spawn much optimism. To preface my answer, forget about the axis of evil as they will do what they do and our Blue Jays do get up for those games, however I don’t forsee the Rays having another big year because they dramatically altered the culture of perception of their upstart team last season from crap to contender; though they still have great looking pitching which in your narrator’s humble opinion thinks they should turn dimes into dollars, meaning they have so many highly ranked pitching prospects and can move some arms for quality players and/or other high prospects in positions they could deepen the talent pool and strengthen the franchise and it’s future. HOWEVER, the reason I digress was to say that unless the Ray do something to change the color of the new dress they bought for the prom they are now a sexy pick and a threat in the American League East and our Jays will no longer roll over for them as they have for as long as my think box can recall, because our Blue Jays seem to raise the bar for the axis of evil, aka Yankee’s and Bo.Sox thus will do so for the new ALE threat. Does this give us an opportunity to have the Blue Jay’s ALE triple threat now to be called the Big 3, we’ll see? (Thank God we’re not Baltimore fans)
So with all that said, and no if’s here either, I think Clement and Purcey will have big seasons giving Marcum and McGowan plenty of time heal. I forsee Overbay and Rolan playing well above their career averages, espcially Overbay with his new old number—no that we’re superstitious. I believe Snider, who is ranked 3 in baseball prospects is the real deal, and he and Lind will shock, that’s right shock the three finger puppeteer kind of shock, many and all. I think V-dub will NOT play to his potential, BUT will have a 300-30-100 gold glove season, which will prop up Rios to take that next step. I think Hill will be force and with all this potential bat strength I think J-MAC will be a safe starter for that highlite glove of his with Scutaro and Inglett behind him giving depth in the middle infield. And, the bench has pop with Millar and Bautista at the ready with ex Astro reclimation project Jason Lane in the outfield to keep the kids hungry—not too shabby…and how good does Lane look this spring, WOW!
Don’t think for one second that the pitching will fall off. Since Thompson, Okha and Zambrano were replaced by Litsch, McGowan and Marcum those rook’s have given hope and this season journeyman pitchers Clement and Maroth will hold the fort until Purcey, Cecil, Mills and Janssen look ready to make that step, though I still think that Clement will be good pickup this season as well as Maroth, if he can come back from the M&M (MCL, Miniscus) injury, will be good according to my tigers scout Cook. In the pig pen almost all the boys are comin’ back to HogTown with Accardo coming back fighting for a spot which will be HUGE this season for that melencholy 5th spot of the rotation. In closing, BJ Ryan has rediscoved a breaking ball pitch with bite, which he didn’t have last season, as well as improved velocity to make your humble narrator and Blue Jays fan think that this can be a great season from at least the pitching perspective.
The catchers spot is probably the deepest position for the franchise. Currently the are three vet’s on the Depth Chart with Hod Rod, Barret and Chavez though I believe the three kids in Thigpen, Arencibia and Jeroloman should start to carry the torch with all that I’ve heard, why not if this is suppose to be a year of growth?
All in all, and that being that I predidict…
The Jays take the Wildcard with 93 W’s
That’s all for now from yours faithfully……Shine on, Cheers and Smell you later!
Run Down………….
So, l haven’t opened up my big brain to you in a about a month, as I was speechless with the 10-0 run.
Initial thoughs:
Halladay’s back to back start, which subsequent loss ended the 10 game streak, was in my perfect hindsight an error…yes, I crowned Cito Lord of the land though I quickly realized while watching that game that by starting the ACE Cito took some pressure off the team which made some errors and stopped hitting.
Q: is it possible to pick up Garland and Lowe, or sub Sheets in there as well as Man-Ram, oh as well as Bonds and perhaps upgrade Texiera or Giambi…ie. will uncle Ted spend 120+ Million dollars?
– baseball-reference.com cyber heroine for the baseball junkie.
more 10-0 thoughts:
that run was accomplished with our 4 of our 5 best relievers, 2 of which (Janssen & Accardo) are out for the season, not near there level they’ve been:::Downs and Ryan, if you weren’t following.
Q: with us having hindsight, would we still have traded Rolan? or kept Stewart over Johnson?
A: yes and no
– idiots who call Mike Wilner’s post game am590 show and express there opinion suggesting Roy Halladay should be traded obviously don’t have any good baseball friends because a good baseball friend would slap that little bich so fast for being an idiot– Halladay in pinstripes would break the heart of every Blue Jays fan anyone who would suggest such BS is not a fan of the team and doesn’t know anything!
I love watching Snider, but I believe it would serve him better to take in another season in 3A however, now with the Jays moving the farm to SinCity, well, I within this same thought will take a 180 and say it is better for him to platoon with Lind.
That’s all for now from your’s faithfully……….Shine on, Cheers and Smell you later.
Honor and Glory, the numbers don’t lie!
I promised you pictures and I promised you stories and then I disappear for a month; however your faithful narrator and blogger has come off the fence. I want to call out J.P. Ricciardi.
Enough is enough! The Blue Jays are 7 years into J.P.’s 5 year plan and this guy has not only proven to be poor at evaluating talent, over paying contracts, being publically critical of free agents to the point of embarrassment, but he has been shown up so enough is enough, he has to go.
Lord Cito by the grace of God-ffrey has been resurrected and his initial demand was to have Adam Lind as an everyday player, which J.P. refused to do prior to Lord Cito’s arrival, and that has proven to be a decision that has given the team hope and an outfield with depth and youth, and power which again to hammer the point home showed up J.P.
Sure Mench had some good years and is obviously going through something (perhaps steroid withdrawal), and Wilkerson too had his share of successes with the long ball, in the past, and yeah Stewart is a career .297 hitter but, all these guys were passed up by every other general manager in the league and for good reason they’ve lost it–and believe me that it pains your humble narrator to bestow such accusations because I try to find the silver lining and hope for the best, however the numbers don’t lie.
If J.P. truly wanted to make this the year he could have acquired Barry Bonds or even Man-Ram to make a run, but it is apparent that J.P.’s biggest disgrace is that other GM’s don’t want to work with him–so ask yourself what is the point of having a GM that can’t get it done on so many levels?
Since this is my blog I have to say it is pretty pitiful that J.P. didn’t let Scott Richmond play the Olympics and that there should be a public flogging of the bum who denied a kid an opportunity to play for his country and cough up some poor cliché about the Majors vs. the Olympics–pathetic!
If I was in your shoes I would try to do something to help the Blue Jays in another way other than complaining about the division you play in. I would contact all the other teams that sadly have empty ball parks or have miniscule payrolls, or have not been near the playoffs for long time and lobby for their organizational support to confront Bud Selig for fundamental changes to baseball, whether it be a hard cap or more teams in the playoffs because you have an opportunity to be in a position to have noteworthy people listen or at the very least take your call, read your email/fax and give you a second of their time and can also do what an average joe can’t do, call Bud up to talk.
Sorry J.P. you can’t at the end of every season cry the same crocodile tears and lament that you put a winning roster together and injuries plagued it to another mediocre season and that we play in AL East with the big spenders, boo hoo. The fact is that you obviously didn’t put a winning season together, since the number don’t lie and neither does what is written on the World Series trophy, moreover every team is affected by injuries so to use that moot point as an excuse is pitiful since other teams seem to into the playoffs with smaller payrolls and have a chance for honor and glory.
That’s all from yours faithfully……Shine on, Cheers, and Smell you later!
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