Toronto Blue Jays
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What a weird, strange, exhiliarting game. I was not so sure of the outcome for a good part of the game but when Joey Bats did his stuff - I knew they would come through. Congratulations Toronto Blue Jays and all their fans. Great game, great win.
I watched a replay of Baptiste hitting the home run. Pretty cool. Good to see another team in there besides the Yankees or Red Sox. I'll root for the jays,,,unless they play the cubs.
Heard that there will be a game on Monday, Canadian Federal Election Day.
It is an evening game that starts at 7 p.m. Big news junkie but I will watch the game or put twpo tvs beside each other, so I can watch election results.
It is an evening game that starts at 7 p.m. Big news junkie but I will watch the game or put twpo tvs beside each other, so I can watch election results.
I voted in my advance poll on Saturday night, about 7:30. The staff was glad that finally someone came. They were nodding off. No one in front of us . Took 10 minutes max.
I had to wait in line (of about 4). They said it was steady and busier than usual advanced polls.
Jose Bautista does not need to “calm that down” and “respect the game”
Rangers reliever Sam Dyson is pretty good. Had a nice year (154 ERA+ in 75 appearances). He likely has a good future working out of bullpens around the league and, as far as any of us know, is a hell of a guy. Maybe a husband. Maybe a father. Good neighbor. Loyal lodge member. Let’s just grant him all of that and more, what with us really not knowing much about him.
Let us also say this about him: last night he was a big whiny baby who could have stood to take a few moments to gather himself and contemplate his shortcomings and general place in the world before spouting off.
You know what happened by now. Bedlam in Toronto following the crazy Russell Martin Shin-Soo Choo interference play. Fans going way over the line into Looneyville, throwing beer cans and the like. Amped up emotions for everyone in Rogers Centre, players included. And then, in the bottom of the seventh, a comeback capped by Dyson serving up a monstrous homer to Jose Bautista that, had it not been for the fine engineers and construction workers who built Rogers Centre, woulda blown the goddamn roof off the place.
Oh, and this:
This was A Moment. Actually, this was not just a moment, it was an iconic moment in baseball history, or at the very least soon will be. This was one of the game’s premier sluggers experiencing perhaps his greatest triumph, having shocked his team and nearly 50,000 screaming Blue Jays fans out of the confused funk into which they fell a half inning before, snapped them into an exuberant frenzy and carried them to the next round of the playoffs.
Sam Dyson, however, was not as impressed. He found this to be a good time for an etiquette lecture:
Let us also say this about him: last night he was a big whiny baby who could have stood to take a few moments to gather himself and contemplate his shortcomings and general place in the world before spouting off.
You know what happened by now. Bedlam in Toronto following the crazy Russell Martin Shin-Soo Choo interference play. Fans going way over the line into Looneyville, throwing beer cans and the like. Amped up emotions for everyone in Rogers Centre, players included. And then, in the bottom of the seventh, a comeback capped by Dyson serving up a monstrous homer to Jose Bautista that, had it not been for the fine engineers and construction workers who built Rogers Centre, woulda blown the goddamn roof off the place.
Oh, and this:
Sam Dyson, however, was not as impressed. He found this to be a good time for an etiquette lecture:
“Jose needs to calm that down, just kind of respect the game a little more. He’s a huge role model for the younger generation that’s coming up playing this game, and I mean he’s doing stuff that kids do in Wiffle ball games and backyard baseball. It shouldn’t be done.”
What a bunch of condescending, patronizing paternalistic nonsense. Who in THE HELL is Sam Dyson to tell Jose Bautista what he “needs” to do? What has Sam Dyson — for as wonderful a person as he may be — ever done or known to give him the right to tell a twelve-year veteran, six-time all-star, team leader and national icon — to two or three nations at this point — what should or shouldn’t be done? And even if he does have any standing whatsoever to lecture Bautista, which he sure as hell does not, how dare he offer up that most mindless, loaded of cliches: “respect the game?”
Bautista did not choreograph some elaborate touchdown dance here. He did not set out to insult the manliness or integrity of Sam Dyson or the Texas Rangers. He had just hit the second biggest home run in Toronto Blue Jays history and, for anyone younger than, say, 25, the biggest in living memory. Most definitely the biggest moment of his professional life. If you are the sort of person who thinks that such a thing cannot be celebrated, you should just give up trying to find happiness in life, consult an actuary about exactly how much time you have left until you die and optimize your investments accordingly. And please, as you do so, be sure your door is closed and your curtains are drawn because the very sight of such a joyless figure as yourself will bring the rest of humanity down.
Pressure + Triumph = Exuberance. If you find that equation troublesome or the concept behind it difficult to grok, you have challenges far beyond trying to get major league hitters out. If you think that some Kafkaesque, self-contradictory, thought and emotion-policing set of “game-respecting” rituals take precedence over it, you’re missing the very point of sports, entertainment and, maybe, even the concept of joy itself.
If such a set of beliefs is required for you to Respect The Game, find a different game. The rest of us will be over here marveling at one of the most exciting baseball moments we’ve ever experienced.
Jose Bautista does not need to “calm that down” and “respect the game” | HardballTalk
What a bunch of condescending, patronizing paternalistic nonsense. Who in THE HELL is Sam Dyson to tell Jose Bautista what he “needs” to do? What has Sam Dyson — for as wonderful a person as he may be — ever done or known to give him the right to tell a twelve-year veteran, six-time all-star, team leader and national icon — to two or three nations at this point — what should or shouldn’t be done? And even if he does have any standing whatsoever to lecture Bautista, which he sure as hell does not, how dare he offer up that most mindless, loaded of cliches: “respect the game?”
Bautista did not choreograph some elaborate touchdown dance here. He did not set out to insult the manliness or integrity of Sam Dyson or the Texas Rangers. He had just hit the second biggest home run in Toronto Blue Jays history and, for anyone younger than, say, 25, the biggest in living memory. Most definitely the biggest moment of his professional life. If you are the sort of person who thinks that such a thing cannot be celebrated, you should just give up trying to find happiness in life, consult an actuary about exactly how much time you have left until you die and optimize your investments accordingly. And please, as you do so, be sure your door is closed and your curtains are drawn because the very sight of such a joyless figure as yourself will bring the rest of humanity down.
Pressure + Triumph = Exuberance. If you find that equation troublesome or the concept behind it difficult to grok, you have challenges far beyond trying to get major league hitters out. If you think that some Kafkaesque, self-contradictory, thought and emotion-policing set of “game-respecting” rituals take precedence over it, you’re missing the very point of sports, entertainment and, maybe, even the concept of joy itself.
If such a set of beliefs is required for you to Respect The Game, find a different game. The rest of us will be over here marveling at one of the most exciting baseball moments we’ve ever experienced.
Jose Bautista does not need to “calm that down” and “respect the game” | HardballTalk
Blue Jays fans behaviour is despicable!!
Man who threw beer can that sprayed baby at Toronto Blue Jays game charged with mischief
Hope the Blue Jays lose just because of the way the fans are acting..
Guess that's what you get when you have a beer league softball team.
Man who threw beer can that sprayed baby at Toronto Blue Jays game charged with mischief
Hope the Blue Jays lose just because of the way the fans are acting..
Guess that's what you get when you have a beer league softball team.
Blue Jays fans behaviour is despicable!!
Man who threw beer can that sprayed baby at Toronto Blue Jays game charged with mischief
Hope the Blue Jays lose just because of the way the fans are acting..
Guess that's what you get when you have a beer league softball team.
How many fans were there? Was it just the one man who threw the beer can? Could it be possible you are "tarring them all with the same brush"?
No matter what sport you care to talk about there will be fans who are complete *******s and should never see the inside of any arena, stadium, whatever. That said, you are taring all the fans with the same brush and that is not only unfair it is untrue. There were hundreds of families in that stadium last night. There were hundreds of seniors. You think they were throwing **** on the field? I highly doubt it. There were hundreds of people who simply came to cheer their Blue Jays on and did so in a true Canadian manner. Were there a bunch of drunken louts who tried to ruin it for all, you betcha and there always will be as long as people get to the point of inebriation where they no longer have control over their actions. And too, the higher the stakes, the higher the emotion.
Five Blue Jays difference makers in the ALDS
TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have advanced to the American League Championship Series after taking the ALDS with a wild 6-3 Game 5 win over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday.
Here are five Blue Jays players who made an impact in the Division Series:
JOSE BAUTISTA
Toronto's right-fielder, who's been with the organization since 2008, is relishing his first post-season experience — and contributing in a big way. The 32-year-old Bautista hit the series-winning three-run homer in Game 5, giving Toronto a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the seventh after a controversial run had pulled Texas ahead in the top half of the frame.
"I knew I did something great for the team at the moment of impact because I knew I hit that ball pretty good," Bautista said of his series-clinching shot. "I gave us the lead in a crucial moment so I was happy to do that."
Bautista also hit an RBI double in the third inning Wednesday to account for four of Toronto's six runs. He's batting .273 with two home runs through five post-season games.
KEVIN PILLAR
Pillar led the team with a .412 batting average through the first four games of the series and had a third-best OPS of 1.118. He had three hits in Game 4 — an 8-4 Toronto win that forced the deciding fifth game — becoming the first Blue Jay to record three or more hits in one post-season game since Paul Molitor and Roberto Alomar did it in 1993. The Blue Jays centre-fielder made a name for himself this season as a formidable defender, and that continued into the post-season. Pillar made a spectacular snag in the fourth inning of Game 5, running from deep to shallow centre, diving forward and getting his glove under a ball before it hit the turf to rob Josh Hamilton of a base hit.
ROBERTO OSUNA
The Blue Jays rookie closer has continued his impressive first season into the playoffs. In four appearances in the five-game ALDS, Osuna worked 5 2/3 innings, giving up zero runs on zero hits. He came into Game 5 with a three-run lead and five outs to get and struck out four batters en route to his first post-season save.
"For a 20-year-old kid to be able to do what he's done, to get the last three outs of the game, those are the toughest three outs to get in Major League Baseball, and that's incredible," left-hander David Price said about Osuna following the Game 5 win. "For him to be able to step up the way he has, that's special."
With Toronto trailing the best-of-five series 2-0, Osuna came up big in Game 3, getting the final three outs — Prince Fielder, Mitch Moreland and Elvis Andrus — in the Blue Jays' 5-1 win. The next day he again worked a perfect ninth to help Toronto even the series.
MARCUS STROMAN
Stroman's season began in agony, tearing his ACL during a spring training fielding drill, but from that moment on he vowed to return to the mound in time for the 2015 post-season. Not only has Stroman lived up to his promise, he's exceeding just about everyone's expectations. Stroman started the decisive fifth game of the ALDS, giving up two runs on six hits, a walk and four strikeouts. He also pitched the second game of the series, a 6-4 extra-innings loss, where he went seven strong innings, fanning five and allowing four runs (three earned).
JOSH DONALDSON
Donaldson tied for third place on the franchise post-season home run leaderboard with two (Jose Bautista, Pat Border, Kelly Gruber, John Olerud, Devon White and Dave Winfield are the others), and he drove in three runs over the first four games of the ALDS. Donaldson's first homer of the post-season came in the first inning of Game 2 in Toronto, and cut the Blue Jays' deficit to 2-1 in an eventual 6-4 loss in extras. His second gave the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead in the first inning of Game 4 in Texas, which Toronto won 8-4. Donaldson had a game-tying RBI and a run scored in Game 5, too.
Melissa Couto
Canadian Press - October 15, 2015
Rotation for ALCS set:
Game 1: Estrata (also probably 5)
Game 2: Price (also probably 6)
Game 3: Stroman (also probably 7)
Game 4: Dickey
Boomer, the behaviour of a few fans was not great. But **** happens. No worse then New York or Chicago. They almost killed the poor kid who caught the foul ball a while back (Bartman). Comes with 50K in the seats.
But I sense that you lived in Texas at some point so I think your feelings might be a bit twisted around the Rangers failure to win that game.
Game 1: Estrata (also probably 5)
Game 2: Price (also probably 6)
Game 3: Stroman (also probably 7)
Game 4: Dickey
Boomer, the behaviour of a few fans was not great. But **** happens. No worse then New York or Chicago. They almost killed the poor kid who caught the foul ball a while back (Bartman). Comes with 50K in the seats.
But I sense that you lived in Texas at some point so I think your feelings might be a bit twisted around the Rangers failure to win that game.
I talked to my daughter at noon. She said that her husband should be in Kansas City by then. I guess David and a friend hopped a plane for Kansas City yesterday evening. They had no hotel and no tickets to the game but they went anyway. I imagine that they will be going to both games in KC before heading home. David is a huge Blue Jays fan.
KC up 3 - zip bottom of the 5th. Our guys are having a tough time finding in holes in the Royal's defense - meanwhile the Royals are not having any problems finding ones of their own. Estrada has been off and on tonight.