Toronto Blue Jays

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I think it is very clear that the Indians pitching is just flat out better than the Jays. The Miller acquisition is phenomenal for them. The Indians shut down the Red Sox offense as well. Jays have pitched better against them than the Sox but still not good enough.

I hope the Jays can win at least 1 game. Ideally 2 to force the celebration back to Cleveland.

 

[spaminator]

Suspect in Jays beer can tossing case no longer works for Postmedia
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 12:05 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 17, 2016 07:19 PM EDT
TORONTO - A man who was charged after allegedly tossing a beer can towards a Baltimore outfielder during a high-intensity Blue Jays playoff game is no longer employed Postmedia Network Inc.
Ken Pagan was charged with mischief earlier this month after surrendering at a police detachment in downtown Toronto.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 24.
The 41-year-old Hamilton man worked for Postmedia as a sports editor.
Postmedia spokesman Georgia Sourtzis confirmed Monday that Pagan had left the company.
She would not elaborate on the circumstances of Pagan’s departure, but the company had said earlier that it was conducting an internal investigation following the beer-tossing incident.
Postmedia is the parent company of the Toronto Sun.
A can thrown from the stands at a Jays game on Oct. 4 narrowly missed Baltimore Orioles player Hyun Soo Kim as he made a catch.
The toss triggered a social media frenzy as many analysed photographs and video footage from the game to figure out where the can had come from.
Suspect in Jays beer can tossing case no longer works for Postmedia | Toronto &

 

[Mowich]

No commenting or keeping track during the game today. I'm just going to sit back and see what happens, hoping and praying that the Jays can pull off a miracle.

GO BLUE JAYS, GO!

 

[Ludlow]

No commenting or keeping track during the game today. I'm just going to sit back and see what happens, hoping and praying that the Jays can pull off a miracle.

GO BLUE JAYS, GO!

I guess Cleveland has a pretty good ball club

 

[Mowich]

I guess Cleveland has a pretty good ball club

They have a excellent ball club, Ludlow - I don't have a negative thing to say about them. They've made brilliant use of their starters and the bullpen. They have guys that steal a base from under your nose and never quit trying. Their bats are doing just enough to keep the team ahead in the scoring. If they go on to win this series, I sure hope it's your Cubbies they will be playing in the World Series.

 

[Mowich]

Final: 5 - 1..............................FOR THE JAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that's 1 down...................hey it's only 4 more to go. And back the team goes to Cleveland.

Correction - it appears Game 5 is in TO, pardon me.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Final: 5 - 1..............................FOR THE JAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that's 1 down...................hey it's only 4 more to go. And back the team goes to Cleveland.

Correction - it appears Game 5 is in TO, pardon me.

Also only 3 left to go! Well technically 7 including the 4 wins in the world series!

 

[Curious Cdn]

Also only 3 left to go!

There's an optimistic spirit!

 

[Cannuck]

Sometimes I hate being right. I never gave the Jays much chance because they can't play the short ball. I hop I'm wrong though. They have been a streaky team so you never know

 

[spaminator]

Blue Jays get a little help from 10th man

By Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 08:19 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 08:29 PM EDT
TORONTO - Forget the curse of Chief Wahoo and welcome Toronto’s lucky blue turban.
“I wore a blue turban because I felt something special was going to happen,” said “Super Fan” Nav Bhatia.
He had a hunch.
“I wore a white one to the first game and it did not seem to work,” he said. “But I felt good about the blue one.”
He was right.
“I will be wearing a blue turban the rest of the series,” said the Mississauga Hyundai car dealer who’s famous for his support of the Toronto Raptors but is a stalwart at all Toronto team games.
He hopes it will be a long one. Fans of Canada’s team are hoping for a comeback miracle.
As Sportsnet broadcaster Hazel Mae tweeted to her friends in Red Sox Nation: “You know what I am thinking!” She was there when the Sox clawed back from an 0-3 deficit against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS and went on to win the World Series.
The Jays took their first step Tuesday with a hard-fought 5-1 win at the Rogers Centre. Now the series is 3-1 for the Indians and the Jays face another must-win game on Wednesday, again with a 4:08 p.m. start. If needed, Games 6 and 7 would happen in Cleveland on Friday and Saturday.
“I love the grittiness of this club,” Bhatia said.
There is life in Blue Jays Nation and fight in this team. There’s nothing more infectious than the roar of that Rogers Centre crowd.
Cleveland quieted the place down in Game 3, but for Game 4 the crowd snapped back to life when Josh Donaldson launched a bomb to left field in the third inning.
That 10th man is so important to the Blue Jays’ success because that collective noise and electricity make the Dome so hard to play in for visiting teams.
And Nav was one of the 49,142 doing his part from his seat behind home plate.
Cleveland have their Indians and Bhatia himself originally comes from India. He’s a proud Sikh who immigrated to Canada in 1984 to escape threats on his life.
He started out living in a Milton basement, and is now one of Canada’s most successful car dealers. Today he’s involved in many philanthropic endeavours to help people in need across the GTA (including sending hundreds of underprivileged kids to sports games every year). He knows a thing or two about hard work and overcoming challenges.
Everything he has ever dreamed of accomplishing has come true. Now he dreams that this American League Championship Series will shift back to Cleveland.
So move over, Chief Wahoo, because the Blue Jays have their own vision quest and Nav will be wearing his, and Toronto’s, lucky blue turban for Game 5 on Wednesday to help them achieve it.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
Super-fan Nav Bhatia at the Rogers Centre for Game 4 on Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016. (Joe Warmington/Toronto Sun)

Blue Jays get a little help from 10th man | Warmington | Toronto & GTA | News |

 

[Mowich]

Blue Jays get a little help from 10th man

By Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 08:19 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 08:29 PM EDT
TORONTO - Forget the curse of Chief Wahoo and welcome Toronto’s lucky blue turban.
“I wore a blue turban because I felt something special was going to happen,” said “Super Fan” Nav Bhatia.
He had a hunch.
“I wore a white one to the first game and it did not seem to work,” he said. “But I felt good about the blue one.”
He was right.
“I will be wearing a blue turban the rest of the series,” said the Mississauga Hyundai car dealer who’s famous for his support of the Toronto Raptors but is a stalwart at all Toronto team games.
He hopes it will be a long one. Fans of Canada’s team are hoping for a comeback miracle.
As Sportsnet broadcaster Hazel Mae tweeted to her friends in Red Sox Nation: “You know what I am thinking!” She was there when the Sox clawed back from an 0-3 deficit against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS and went on to win the World Series.
The Jays took their first step Tuesday with a hard-fought 5-1 win at the Rogers Centre. Now the series is 3-1 for the Indians and the Jays face another must-win game on Wednesday, again with a 4:08 p.m. start. If needed, Games 6 and 7 would happen in Cleveland on Friday and Saturday.
“I love the grittiness of this club,” Bhatia said.
There is life in Blue Jays Nation and fight in this team. There’s nothing more infectious than the roar of that Rogers Centre crowd.
Cleveland quieted the place down in Game 3, but for Game 4 the crowd snapped back to life when Josh Donaldson launched a bomb to left field in the third inning.
That 10th man is so important to the Blue Jays’ success because that collective noise and electricity make the Dome so hard to play in for visiting teams.
And Nav was one of the 49,142 doing his part from his seat behind home plate.
Cleveland have their Indians and Bhatia himself originally comes from India. He’s a proud Sikh who immigrated to Canada in 1984 to escape threats on his life.
He started out living in a Milton basement, and is now one of Canada’s most successful car dealers. Today he’s involved in many philanthropic endeavours to help people in need across the GTA (including sending hundreds of underprivileged kids to sports games every year). He knows a thing or two about hard work and overcoming challenges.
Everything he has ever dreamed of accomplishing has come true. Now he dreams that this American League Championship Series will shift back to Cleveland.
So move over, Chief Wahoo, because the Blue Jays have their own vision quest and Nav will be wearing his, and Toronto’s, lucky blue turban for Game 5 on Wednesday to help them achieve it.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
Super-fan Nav Bhatia at the Rogers Centre for Game 4 on Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016. (Joe Warmington/Toronto Sun)

Blue Jays get a little help from 10th man | Warmington | Toronto & GTA | News |

Rock on Nav.............we need all the help we can get. You go man. :smile:

 

[spaminator]

 

[Mowich]

Of all days to have to get my Snowies on, I had to pick today........course I couldn't have know how important this game was but the Universe must have because my tire guys got things done in record time and I was able to get back in time to see the bottom of the 1rst.

Cleveland is currently ahead 2 - 0 going to the bottom of the 3rd...........sure hope Jays bats wake up soon........they are up against a rookie fps............GO JAYS, GO

The only thing I'll be happy about when this series ends - except of course a Blue Jays win.......will be that I don't have to listen to the game announcers...........where oh where are Buck and Pat.

The Cleveland Indians will advance to the World Series after beating the Blue Jays 3 - 0 in Game 5. I wish them all the luck.....they are a great ball team, fine competitors and were simply the better team in this series. Sorry Jays fans........as with my Riders.........there's always next year but expect to see a different Jays team in the spring.

 

[spaminator]

 

[Curious Cdn]

Of all days to have to get my Snowies on, I had to pick today........course I couldn't have know how important this game was but the Universe must have because my tire guys got things done in record time and I was able to get back in time to see the bottom of the 1rst.

Cleveland is currently ahead 2 - 0 going to the bottom of the 3rd...........sure hope Jays bats wake up soon........they are up against a rookie fps............GO JAYS, GO

The only thing I'll be happy about when this series ends - except of course a Blue Jays win.......will be that I don't have to listen to the game announcers...........where oh where are Buck and Pat.

The Cleveland Indians will advance to the World Series after beating the Blue Jays 3 - 0 in Game 5. I wish them all the luck.....they are a great ball team, fine competitors and were simply the better team in this series. Sorry Jays fans........as with my Riders.........there's always next year but expect to see a different Jays team in the spring.

FORE!!

swoosh

 

[Cannuck]

The writing was on the wall with a half dozen or so games left in the regular season when, with runners at first and second and nobody out (down a run) the next three batters came up and swung for the fence. You just aren't going to win a World Series playing that kind of ball

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Cleveland was clearly the better team.

Jays need to take care of these items this off season to have a shot next year:

• Re-sign Edwin (most important)
• Get a manager who won't bat a .150 hitter in the leadoff position. (too bad they just announced Gibbons will return).
• Get a backup infielder with some pop. With Travis having injury issues Goins/Barney are not going to cut it.
• I am indifferent whether they re-sign Sanders or Batista.
• Good Bye R.A. Dickey, Thole.

Another exciting season again falling just short.

 

[JLM]

Cleveland was clearly the better team.

Jays need to take care of these items this off season to have a shot next year:

• Re-sign Edwin (most important)
• Get a manager who won't bat a .150 hitter in the leadoff position. (too bad they just announced Gibbons will return).
• Get a backup infielder with some pop. With Travis having injury issues Goins/Barney are not going to cut it.
• I am indifferent whether they re-sign Sanders or Batista.
• Good Bye R.A. Dickey, Thole.

Another exciting season again falling just short.

Yep, "it matters not whether you win or lose but how you play the game"

 

[talloola]

Of all days to have to get my Snowies on, I had to pick today........course I couldn't have know how important this game was but the Universe must have because my tire guys got things done in record time and I was able to get back in time to see the bottom of the 1rst.

Cleveland is currently ahead 2 - 0 going to the bottom of the 3rd...........sure hope Jays bats wake up soon........they are up against a rookie fps............GO JAYS, GO

The only thing I'll be happy about when this series ends - except of course a Blue Jays win.......will be that I don't have to listen to the game announcers...........where oh where are Buck and Pat.

The Cleveland Indians will advance to the World Series after beating the Blue Jays 3 - 0 in Game 5. I wish them all the luck.....they are a great ball team, fine competitors and were simply the better team in this series. Sorry Jays fans........as with my Riders.........there's always next year but expect to see a different Jays team in the spring.

I wonder if we will ever see gibbins again in Toronto, I think not.
in his case it mattered big time how they played the game, this isn't
house league, this is a business, just like hockey, and results dictate
questions and answers.
that cute little saying has a much different meaning in pro sports.

 

[Mowich]

I wonder if we will ever see gibbins again in Toronto, I think not.
in his case it mattered big time how they played the game, this isn't
house league, this is a business, just like hockey, and results dictate
questions and answers.
that cute little saying has a much different meaning in pro sports.

I just read IRBS' comments and apparently management announced that Gibby will be back next year........I should copy IRBS and your comments to him............he might do better next year. :smile:

Cleveland was clearly the better team.

Jays need to take care of these items this off season to have a shot next year:

• Re-sign Edwin (most important)
• Get a manager who won't bat a .150 hitter in the leadoff position. (too bad they just announced Gibbons will return).
• Get a backup infielder with some pop. With Travis having injury issues Goins/Barney are not going to cut it.
• I am indifferent whether they re-sign Sanders or Batista.
• Good Bye R.A. Dickey, Thole.

Another exciting season again falling just short.

I agree about Eddy, RA and Thole and your remarks about Ryan and Darwin. I don't see Joey as a priority at all - he either takes what they offer or he and the team will part ways. I would like to see them re-sign Michael - at least give him another year. I don't know whether Kevin, Tulo, Darwin, Zeke and Smokie have contract talks coming up but if they do, I would like to see all of them remain with the team. I also hope Jason Grilli is back next year.

Just heard Marco say he'll be a Jay again next year - good news there.

I think of all the teams in both leagues that didn't make even this far and what it took for them to get as far as they did but still not quite there. I'm looking at these last two years as practice for the World Series so that by the time we do get there we are battle hardened and know exactly what it takes to get to the biggest show in baseball and come away a winner.

And, when all is said and done our Jays did finish 4th best and in doing so provided us with some moments we aren't likely to forget. Thank you Blue Jays for another great year of baseball.