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shack

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Ho hum, another loss in Tampa. This Pillar kid is in way over his head, 0 for 13 should send him back down.
Are you saying that the Jays wasted another 32nd round pick?
 

Insidious Von

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Ho hum, another loss in Tampa. This Pillar kid is in way over his head, 0 for 13 should send him back down.
Pillar has promise but he swings the bat like Woody Allen. His faulty mechanics don't allow him to make decent contact, Gose is struggling as well but his mechanics are better developed. Neither of them will be able to drive the ball with brute strength like Edwin Encarnacioooooooon.

Brett Lawrie is maturing like a fine Barolo.
 

gcostanza

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Ho hum, another loss in Tampa. This Pillar kid is in way over his head, 0 for 13 should send him back down.
Well saxon, at least you've given him a fair shot.

He has the exact same number of hits after his 1st 13 AB's in MLB as E.E. had.

Encarnacion seems to have turned out okay.
 

mynameisearl11

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Training camp is just around the corner. Time to start a new thread on..the Leafs! LOL. And then by next January we will talk about the Leafs need a coaching change!
You need a sense of humour to survive as followers of TO sports teams. Once the Leafs start to fade as a team the Jays would come into a picture again in Feb. They are working well together to keep TO sports fans remain interested.
 

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OK... bottom line... once again!

MANAGEMENT 101: a good manager must inspire his team... he is the glue that binds the individuals together, so that they perform at their level of competence and talent and play together as a team... like the conductor of a symphony orchestra.

This bullshit that the players, not the manager, perform out on the field is just that: bullshit. The conductor is not called upon to play the violin, clarinet or trombones, either!

If that does not make sense to you, then do not pursue a career in management, whatever the field.

If you have seen Gibbons' TV interviews and his after-the-game press conferences, you know without any doubt that the concept and word "inspiration" does not belong in his catalog of talents nor in his dictionary.

The BJ's have been like an orchestra without a conductor all year...

Perry
I agree. I think the manager and coaches need to keep morale high, analyze why certain players aren't performing up to expectations, etc. Its interesting that the Dodgers have a dozen or so ex players on their coaching staff. Some very renowned ones such as Mattingly, Honeycutt, McGwire, Lopes, Wallach and on. Even Sandy Koufax is in some special capacity. Have to believe these guys are more effective than the Jays staff.
 

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Can the Jays pay Robinson Cano 1 billion dollars to play in Canada for them next season? Man, he would look so good playing along side with Reyes. If Cano comes to Toronto,we can start printing WS tickets! LOL.
 

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Can the Jays pay Robinson Cano 1 billion dollars to play in Canada for them next season? Man, he would look so good playing along side with Reyes. If Cano comes to Toronto,we can start printing WS tickets! LOL.
Dream on.
 

mynameisearl11

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Dream on.
Even with more money I don't think Cano would agree to play at the Rogers Centre. Cano would prefer grass at Yankees over the 'stupid' field turf the Jays playing on right now.
Unless do I hear one billion?? Pay him more than A-roid contract,he maybe reconsider. Yes,dream on...lol.
 

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Bullpen can't handle the Yankees in the first game of the double-header.

Quite a reversal now with the starting pitching having improved a lot and the bullpen not now delivering saves.
 

saxon

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Yes the bullpen couldn't keep it close, but then again the hitters couldn't get the key hit with runners in scoring position. Doesn't help when Bautista leaves with a sore hip, probably will miss the second game as well. Can't afford to have guys like him out of the lineup for too long especially against the Yanks.
 

Jennifer_

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Can the Jays pay Robinson Cano 1 billion dollars to play in Canada for them next season? Man, he would look so good playing along side with Reyes. If Cano comes to Toronto,we can start printing WS tickets! LOL.
I wish... but Jay-Z there's no way Jay-Z will let him leave New York.
 

mightymouse007

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Can the Jays pay Robinson Cano 1 billion dollars to play in Canada for them next season? Man, he would look so good playing along side with Reyes. If Cano comes to Toronto,we can start printing WS tickets! LOL.
Even if we have Cano, we won't make the playoffs. We need a surplus of good pitching. This team just sucks right now in all directions. Our pitching sux, our defence sux, our hitting sux.
 

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Even with more money I don't think Cano would agree to play at the Rogers Centre. Cano would prefer grass at Yankees over the 'stupid' field turf the Jays playing on right now.
Unless do I hear one billion?? Pay him more than A-roid contract,he maybe reconsider. Yes,dream on...lol.
Cano is a Yankee for life, ala Jeter, Rivera, Mantle, Posada, Williams. The chance of him ever in a BJ uniform is zero.
 

saxon

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Bautista now on 15 day DL with a bum hip. What else can go wrong with this team? This seasons has turned into an effing joke.
 

shack

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Bautista now on 15 day DL with a bum hip. What else can go wrong with this team? This seasons has turned into an effing joke.
The joke is that during training camp I heard Bautista say, "I don't see what can go wrong".
 

Nad Smith

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The degree of effect of playing on turf can't really be measured, but you gotta wonder......get grass now! or asap.
 
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