Blue Jays vs. Red Sox Recap:
Even though I didn’t have the opportunity to actually watch the end of this game, I’m still dumfounded by the amount of idiots demanding for robot umpires after tonight’s call. In my opinion robot umpires would take away from the tradition of the game and I also don’t see a plausible way for a robot umpire to make that call without delaying the game. Maybe instant replay should be implemented where teams are allowed a certain number of challenges per game but that is an argument for another day.
Just some observations from the game:
- Why the fuck wasn’t Thames starting today in LF? Sure John Farrell said that the matchup of Lester was a difficult one for Thames, but why start the kid against the best LHP in the league in Cliff Lee. The benching today of arguably their hottest hitter over the last 10 days was of the stupidest things John Farrell has done all year long especially considering we had to see Corey Patterson play. While we’re on the topic of Patterson, I’ll never understand what the fuck he was doing in the 7th inning (I think?) when he was picked off at 3B with your cleanup hitter in Adam Lind up. That fucking retarded move in itself should deserve a fucking demotion. I can only sit here wondering when the fuck Adam Loewen is going to get a shot to prove himself against Major League pitching. It sure is a lot better than watching Farrell run Patterson and Raj Davis out their every other day.
- Has John Farrell lost his fucking mind with his line up today (before the Yunel scratch)? He put a guy with a career .320 OBP and a season OBP of .263 ahead of the greatest hitter in the game while putting the guy with the career .364 OBP behind your two best hitters (Lind and Bautista). Still not sure what the fuck goes through that mind of Farrell’s.
- If I were to make a line up with the players we currently have in the system right now, it would look like this.. Yunel Escobar SS, Eric Thames LF, Jose Bautista RF, Adam Lind 1B, Edwin Encarnacion 3B, Travis Snider CF, J.P Arencibia C, Aaron Hill 2B, Cooper/Loewen DH
- When it comes to Encarnacion, I know some of you are going to say,“ The guy can’t play the field.” Well I’ll just reply with, “Who the fuck cares, it’s not like we’re winning anyways, might as well boost his trade value by actually playing him at a position other then fucking DH.” And yes Raj isn’t even close to being an everyday OF in the Majors, so he also gets to ride the pine.
The Rebuttal
So now that I can delve into the nonsense Stoeten provided over at Drunk Jays Fans today, let’s finally look at the nonsensical, misguided, and even foolish fucking opinions about the direction of this franchise.
“Newsflash-- as you like to say-- champ, we were talking about Thames and Cooper after that game, and we were hardly calling them "DONE," we were simply not enthused about their prospects of being anything more than fringe-regular Major Leaguers-- which is exactly what we agreed on about Thames yesterday, who Parkes pointed out-- as he'd written in a post at Getting Blanked earlier-- needs to be better at taking pitches.”
After 41 Major League AB’s you guys already fucking labelled Thames as AAAA guy that will never have any success in the MLB. So when the question was brought up about the possibility of calling up some of the younger guys like Thames, Cooper, and Snider after the Braves series, you guys went on to say, “that there’s nothing down in Las Vegas that we don’t already have here and it’s not worth calling these players up due to their inability to be successful in their first Major League stints.” I mean, hey you guys could be fucking right about these guys, but at least give them the fucking chance to be successful at the Major League level. They're not learning anything from being coddled down in AAA where they get to hit .400 in a hitter’s friendly league. Baseball is a game of adjustments and if they do indeed fail while trying to perform at the Major League level, they need to be given the opportunity to make the given adjusts at the fucking MAJOR LEAGUE LEVEL while not looking over their shoulder worrying if they’re going to be sent down or even played for that matter, case in point, Jose Bautista.
And now you’re trying to sit here and tell me that Eric Thames needs to be better at taking pitches. Are you fucking serious? Eric Thames had a 10% BB rate in AAA this year, if you’re going to complain about anyone not taking good pitches or walking enough, let’s just look at Adam Lind with his career 6.8% BB rate. For you guys to not be enthused about a guy who has raked at every single level of baseball he’s played at in Thames is utterly fucking retarded on your parts.
You have to understand something here, I’m all for the development of these fucking players in the system, but the way some of our young players have been treated (Cecil, Lawrie, Snider, Loewen, Thames and Cooper) is fucking inexcusable. These guys have fucking proven that they're good enough to be given a chance to succeed at the next level and they weren’t given that chance until after the fucking Super 2 deadline, not surprising coming from an organization like the Toronto Blue Jays.
“Of course, I wouldn't put it past dickless Pete to have mistaken my sarcastic comment about Thames giving the Jays spark as "gushing," after all, he's one of the astonishing fucking hysterical cretins who rages about Rogers not pissing away money like they're the New York Mets or Chicago Cubs.”
For this team to be successful especially in the AL East, it will have to start spending money like the aforementioned teams above. I’m tired of management sitting on its ass waiting for this supposed home-grown fucking talent to be called up and hopefully contribute at the Major League level. Anthopoulos and more specifically the cheap bastards that own this team in Rogers are quite possibly wasting one of the greatest years from anybody in the history of baseball. If this talent does indeed come up and is able to contribute, (key word if) Bautista will surely have regressed from his current dominant self. But it’s not like this isn’t typical for Rogers though, we did waste 13 years of Delgado and Halladay (1996 to 2009) by not surrounding are franchise players with the players needed to win in the AL East. It seemed like we were waiting for our home-grown talent to emerge then as well. Maybe you don’t recall the glory days of the Toronto Blue Jays (obviously were too busy delving into the nonsense with the band) when they had the most expensive payroll in baseball. It doesn’t take a genius to understand this fucking concept, now we just need a fucking willing owner to spend money.
“It takes a serious absence of cerebellum to have missed the fact that Rogers paid $11-million to Rivera), that they were the third-highest spending team in the 2010 draft (only barely behind Washington and Pittsburgh, who had picks like Bryce Harper and Jameson Taillon inflating their totals) and will certainly be up there again this year, that they dramatically expanded the scouting department, that they reinvested a lot of their savings on Wells into Bautista, that they've been as active as any club with international free agents (committing $10-million to Adeiny Hechavarria alone, signing Adonis Cardona for more than any Venezuelan amateur ever-- $2.8-million-- and just this week paying the most for any Latin American infielder signed this year-- $1.3-million to Dawel Lugo), etc. et-cocksucking-cetera.”
Sure, their spending money, but as of right now, their spending enough money to appease the fan base to think there actually doing something productive with all the money they make. For a team to become successful in the AL East, they have to do all the things you mentioned above including bring in some home-grown talent (like they have in Lind, Snider, Thames, JPA, Romero etc.) as well as spending money on the FA market to the point where they’re payroll isn’t below fucking average (like it has been for the last decade) which to me is a slap in the face especially coming from the richest ownership in the history of fucking sports.
And aren’t you the one that continually bashed the Jose Bautista signing? Looks like he could potentially pay off the whole fucking contract this year if he puts up to a 14 or 15 WAR (with wins above replacement going for nearly 4 million a win last off-season)
Any ways, it’s been real Stoetes… just remember, when Lawrie comes up for his September call up, don’t totally write the guy off if he slumps for 30 AB’s like we all know you will, then jump on his bandwagon when he leads this team to a potentially playoff run in 2015..
Have a good one..
