Blue Jays: 2015 edition

[mandrill]

You mean the way KC kept the tap on, winning their last 5 games? They sure showed Houston and (dis)proved your theory.:thumb:

Game today: Cueto v Kazmir. They have both been erratic since being traded to their new teams. (Yup, for all his issues yesterday, Jays got the best performing pitching rental of the season in DP!) If KC loses this one, they go back to Houston down 2-0 and head into the Keuchel Zone. Keuchel appears unbeatable at Minute Maid.

 

[The LoLRus]

One notable feature of this thread: with some exceptions, those who understand the least post the most.

Perry

Yup, and you're Mr. Expert.

I'm quite sure the Jays will come calling for you once Gibby gets fired

 

[AK-47]

This MLB feed with Bob Costas is so much better than yesterday.
Better pitch tracker.
Better commentators.
Better everything.

I hope SNO sticks with it till end of world series

 

[bluecolt]

The Cubs are the only team left in baseball that has not won the World Series in its new stadium.

 

[DanJ]

The Cubs are the only team left in baseball that has not won the World Series in its new stadium.

??..

 

[eguapo]

The Cubs are the only team left in baseball that has not won the World Series in its new stadium.

How do you account for the 8 teams that have never won a World Series?

 

[bluecolt]

How do you account for the 8 teams that have never won a World Series?

The Cubs are the only team to open a new ballpark and not win a World Series in it. They opened in 1912.

 

[Nad Smith]

I remember what Harry Caray once said about the Cubs.."Anybody can have a bad century"

 

[DanJ]

The Cubs are the only team to open a new ballpark and not win a World Series in it. They opened in 1912.

You still need to expand on that. I suspect you mean of teams going back to that time in baseball history. But of teams that have won World Series in their history, Cubs, Pirates, Reds, Marlins, Braves, Mets, Tigers, Orioles, Twins, and Indians (might be forgetting someone), have not won a World Series in their current ballpark.

 

[black booty lover]

Joey Boom Bats makes the Rays pitchers get their shoe boxes.

Nice celebration but where's the Kevin-Cola dugout tarantella?

They got to do their little dance twice yesterday....lol

 

[bluecolt]

You still need to expand on that. I suspect you mean of teams going back to that time in baseball history. But of teams that have won World Series in their history, Cubs, Pirates, Reds, Marlins, Braves, Mets, Tigers, Orioles, Twins, and Indians (might be forgetting someone), have not won a World Series in their current ballpark.

I have to go over this again every few years. The Cubs are the only team remaining that has opened a new field, not an existing field, and have not won a World Series in it. I am not including the new fields that have recently opened like Comerica Park or Jacobs Field. My comment was for old timers and old parks.
You must be really young because the Pirates(Mazeroski's home run in 1960), Reds(The Big Red Machine in the 70's), Marlins in 1995, Braves during the Hank Aaron 1957 era and in 1995(their only World Series in the 90's), Mets in 1969(Miracle Mets) and 1986(Bill Buckner's boot) , Tigers in 1968 and 1984, Orioles(several times with the most memorable when they beat the World Champion Dodgers, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen in 1966, Twins with Jack Morris in 1991 and Indians in 1948 with Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain, have all won in their previous ballparks.
Please look up your facts and get them straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of baseball lore.

 

[shack]

Please look up your facts and get them straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of baseball lore.

It may be more due to your lack of being able to clearly articulate your point.

 

[busterhut]

I have to go over this again every few years. The Cubs are the only team remaining that has opened a new field, not an existing field, and have not won a World Series in it. I am not including the new fields that have recently opened like Comerica Park or Jacobs Field. My comment was for old timers and old parks.
You must be really young because the Pirates(Mazeroski's home run in 1960), Reds(The Big Red Machine in the 70's), Marlins in 1995, Braves during the Hank Aaron 1957 era and in 1995(their only World Series in the 90's), Mets in 1969(Miracle Mets) and 1986(Bill Buckner's boot) , Tigers in 1968 and 1984, Orioles(several times with the most memorable when they beat the World Champion Dodgers, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen in 1966, Twins with Jack Morris in 1991 and Indians in 1948 with Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain, have all won in their previous ballparks.
Please look up your facts and get them straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of baseball lore.

So if they have won in their previous ballparks but not in their current parks his statement was correct. Perhaps you need to get YOUR facts straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of the english language. The way you express it is extremely confusing-it seems yoiu are calling Wrigly a new field many parks built in the past 20 years are not new.

 

[gcostanza]

One notable feature of this thread: with some exceptions, those who understand the least post the most.

Perry

 

[bluecolt]

So if they have won in their previous ballparks but not in their current parks his statement was correct. Perhaps you need to get YOUR facts straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of the english language. The way you express it is extremely confusing-it seems yoiu are calling Wrigly a new field many parks built in the past 20 years are not new.

Busterhut,

It is the English language, not english language, and Wrigley Field, not Wrigly Field, was built by William Wrigley, Jr. (of Wrigley's Gum fame)specifically for the Cubs as a brand new stadium in 1914. The Cubs, read carefully, have not won in their new stadium to date. That is a century plus one year. All of the other teams in the Major Leagues have won the World Series since, but not the Cubs. What more can I say?

 

[busterhut]

Busterhut,

It is the English language, not english language, and Wrigley Field, not Wrigly Field, was built by William Wrigley, Jr. (of Wrigley's Gum fame)specifically for the Cubs as a brand new stadium in 1914. The Cubs, read carefully, have not won in their new stadium to date. That is a century plus one year. All of the other teams in the Major Leagues have won the World Series since, but not the Cubs. What more can I say?

The fact that i made a typo certainly validates your point.
I don't think anyone else considers WRIGLEY field a new stadium, yet you keep calling it that. No need to say anymore, you are as clear as mud already. I am still with the others who think you are not explaining yourself clearly at all. What more can I say?

 

[gcostanza]

The Cubs, read carefully, have not won in their new stadium to date. That is a century plus one year. All of the other teams in the Major Leagues have won the World Series since, but not the Cubs. What more can I say?

San Diego Padres
Seattle Mariners
Tampa Bay Rays
Texas Rangers
Milwaukee Brewers
Houston Astros
Colorado Rockies
Team formerly known as the Montreal Expos

I don't think I missed any franchises, but stand to be corrected.

Care to let us know in what years the above listed teams won the World Series?

 

[DanJ]

I have to go over this again every few years. The Cubs are the only team remaining that has opened a new field, not an existing field, and have not won a World Series in it. I am not including the new fields that have recently opened like Comerica Park or Jacobs Field. My comment was for old timers and old parks.
You must be really young because the Pirates(Mazeroski's home run in 1960), Reds(The Big Red Machine in the 70's), Marlins in 1995, Braves during the Hank Aaron 1957 era and in 1995(their only World Series in the 90's), Mets in 1969(Miracle Mets) and 1986(Bill Buckner's boot) , Tigers in 1968 and 1984, Orioles(several times with the most memorable when they beat the World Champion Dodgers, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen in 1966, Twins with Jack Morris in 1991 and Indians in 1948 with Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain, have all won in their previous ballparks.
Please look up your facts and get them straight before displaying your lack of knowledge of baseball lore.

In comparison to you, yes I'm sure I'm really young (46). However, I wasn't incorrect in what I said at all. I'm sure in your advanced years, you misread what I wrote and thought I said those teams had never won a World Series, when in fact I wrote that they had, just not in their current parks. Perhaps what you meant is the Cubs have the longest World Series drought of any team that has moved from their previous stadium to their current one? Because they certainly aren't the only ones.

 

[AK-47]

You know what though, aside from Loup and Price we LITERALLY have no other lefties in the pen.
Maybe putting Price out there wasnt such a bad idea, but perhaps he needs to be left there???

You tell me. Am I wrong??

 

[Insidious Von]

Back to the Future?

Here's an interesting stat for u.

If the Cubs get to the World Series, it will be their first Final since 1945. That's 70 years of futility. The closest they came to getting there was 1969 when Ferguson Jenkins was the ace of their pitching staff. The Maple Leafs are the Cubs of hockey, taking into account pre-WW II franchises. They haven't been to the Stanley Cup Finals since 1967, at the close of the current season that will be 49 years. If the bottom is set at 70 years, can they surpass that ignominious mark?