2021 Blue Jays General Discussion Thread
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Highlander
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4 runs in the ninth to sweep the Braves. This team is catching fire and without some of its star players.herman said:
Highlander
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Montoya was speaking of Manoah today and saying how compose he was to have Ross Atkins in the stands for his pitching performance. I would say it is less than a week before the big guy arrives to write his legacy. I know this might seems a premature overstatement, but the kid is already 24, he's gotta start sometime.Deebo said:
Heroic Shrimp
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Jays up 8-0 and 2 outs from climbing to a half game back of Boston for the division lead.
Heroic Shrimp
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Well, they were a game over .500 before winning 6 or their last 7 while scoring a ton. Two shutouts in the last three games, too.Bender said:
L K
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Tony Larussa has certainly been doing things the last 24 hours.
All stemming because a 28 year old rookie hit a 3-0 home run off a position player in a blowout.
He's now ouright fighting with his players in the media on comments. It's just downright silly.
I also enjoy the "irony" that Tony LaRussa is concerned about the unwritten rules of baseball as a 2 time DUI recipient.
All stemming because a 28 year old rookie hit a 3-0 home run off a position player in a blowout.
He's now ouright fighting with his players in the media on comments. It's just downright silly.
I also enjoy the "irony" that Tony LaRussa is concerned about the unwritten rules of baseball as a 2 time DUI recipient.
Kin
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L K said:
I'm kind of torn on this. On the one hand I think LaRussa is wrong here specifically, Baseball isn't a game where you can let the clock run out so you do have to take your cuts and if the opposing pitcher(or infielder masquerading as a pitcher) is throwing meatballs you should take your best swings.
But I feel like whenever this issue comes up on twitter or wherever there's this expressing from people my age and younger that all unwritten rules everywhere are stupid and that not taking your foot off the gas when playing an overmatched opponent has nothing to do with good sportsmanship. I'm reminded of that thing from a few years ago when the US Women's Soccer team, the most successful and well funded team in the world, was playing a much smaller and less well funded team and beat them 12-0 or whatever and celebrated each goal like they were overtime winners. When they got criticized on Canadian TV ever so softly it was like "How dare you? How dare you try to stifle expressions of joy! Those other players should have tried harder to stop them!".
I feel like there can be a middle ground where you don't have a red-ass about it but you can also recognize that there is a line where running up the score makes you a jerk.
bustaheims
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9th inning, up by 12, and a 3-0 count? Yeah, probably shouldn't be swinging, but also shouldn't causing this level of outrage.
dappleganger
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L K said:
Tony respects the unwritten rules. It?s the written rules he takes issue with.
L K
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bustaheims said:
I'm perfectly fine with him swinging. The Twins didn't walk up to the plate and strike out on 9 pitches in the bottom of the 9th. If you want to have games stop because a team is up by too much they put a mercy rule and let teams forfeit the end of the game.
To me a guy being on the mound and throwing 49 MPH pitches is more of a silly thing than a guy swinging at it.
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https://twitter.com/MLBPipeline/status/1395187325051752453
Man, how much longer do we have to wait to see him in the Jays starting rotation?
Man, how much longer do we have to wait to see him in the Jays starting rotation?
dappleganger
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Heroic Shrimp said:
Next week.
bustaheims
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L K said:
Yeah. He?ll definitely struggle at the MLB level if he can?t locate all his pitches. The fastball-slider combo will be enough for him to survive, but not enough for him to fully realize his potential.