Could this Game Threat possibly be lamer than yesterday’s? I think I’m already proving that it sure can. But I assure you it’s for good reason. Huge congratulations to the Hammsters. Chris and Liz, you guys are truly awesome and that was one king hell of a day.
OK, back to baseball…
Um… y’know… at 3 o’clock.
I’m gonna check out the Pride Parade instead of the game, but I figure I’ll see an equal number of guys dressed as Angels, and long balls
Hopefully it’s the Jays hitters getting the hanging balls over the plate today.
“Canada sucks, nationalism makes me sick! everybody stop having fun today!”
-the entire score baseball team on twitter recently
its an excuse to party, why cant i identify with the arbitrary borders i happened to be born in? and more importantly, why does it seem to bother you guys so much that I do? Did Donald Sutherland’s army of maple syrup covered beavers beat you guys up as kids?
I must say that I sympathize with Señor Stoeten’s views to an extent, especially concerning the irrational highs and lows of fans, and his just criticism that Lawrie is popular in a way that Bautista does not seem to be.
One has to wonder, though, with that attitude of reflexive cynicism, why Stoeten chooses to follow professional sports at all. Nationalism is not always jingoism, especially when one has seen just how gentle this country can be relative to so many other parts of the world. Live and learn, I suppose. Bonne fête du Canada!
You completely lost me in the first sentence of the second paragraph. What does one thing have to do with the other?
You are dubious, justifiably perhaps, about the Jays’ attempts to wrap themselves in the flag, about the relevance of Lawrie’s nationality, or anyone else’s, et cetera. So be it. But we are watching men playing a boy’s game, and those men are encouraged (even in baseball, señor) to show emotion, dress in big primary colours and engage in pranks like high school kids. And all to the bottom line of Fucking Rogers. If you’re going to accept all that sardonically, why not the rest?
When the fuck did I say anything remotely close to anything like that?
there is the obsession with maple boners…
or at least pointing out that we get them when we see Canadian boys doing well in the bigs.
@ Stoeten
I’m not going to get into it, I gotta leave.
It may have not been the message you thought you were sending but I also get the same impression from your posts and comments.
Maybe it was one of your circular arguments where you stated to be a proud Canadian but fuck anything Canadian about baseball and celebrating it.
Again,just the image you seem to present.
Happy Canada Day. Enjoy the final and the Jays game.
With the Euro today,I’m pleasantly surprised at a new game threat.
Now that I’m back from a self imposed exile. I’m still crunching numbers but it could be that AA is ready to make big moves in the off season. He may make some before the trade deadline but 2013 looks very good, both fiscally and team wise,
Happy Canada Day to one and all! Seriously, how can you not be proud of a country whose national symbol is a beaver?
+ Billions and Billions
balt death spiral has begun
they’ll be resigning vladdy annnnny day now.
Zaun looks great. IF EE doesn’t get to go to the allstar game that’s a shame.
Sportsnet’s “Greatest Canadian baseball victory” is against a Buck Martinez managed US team. LOL.
(I know one game can go either way, yadda, yadda, yadda)
with Ernie Whitt coaching Canada… Stubby Clapp* would’ve been better but still, SO cool!
*ALL TIME GREAT Name
That hot girl who did the rabbit ears behind Barry Davis’ head – towers over him.
Upon further review, just every adult passing Barry Davis is towering over him.
bet he’s still kicked off the rides rides at Wonderland
Brett Lawrie: very good young player for the Toronto Blue Jays. Who the fuck cares where he’s from.
Canada Day Baseball: Another excuse for me to drink in the afternoon and Rogers to sell another alternate Jersey to the fans.
Canada Day: different from the above due to its non-commercial nature. Also an excuse for me to drink in the afternoon. A celebration of the semi-independence of the nation-state we live in. Full independence would be attained some 115 years later. It was kind of like moving out of our childhood bedroom into the garage, and calling it our first “apartment”, where we stayed until we were 30, and our parents finally said “look, wee need you to think about moving out.” But, Still worth Celebrating.
As for the rest… Why You Mad Bro?
Happy Canada Day Monkey Army!
balt and clev are the only plus 500 teams with negative run diff. hard to keep that up
if balt falls fast as \i expect they will, jays will only be 1 game back
Dafuq? Some chump like Laffey shouldn’t be allowed to wear the same uniform number as the sainted Doc Halladay.
Anyone got a stream?
and having Colby on the bench has already cost them a run
You mean Bautista?
brain cramp.
A drink or two will work wonders to relieve the cramp, and won’t be frowned upon this afternoon.
Cletus is in CF, Joey is the one DHing today. Seriously, Rajai… You’ve got Mike Trout on second and you’re just gonna lollygag it? To the bench you go!
The all star process should be changed; how does the cubs get two all stars and have a shitty team but the jays have just one all star ( albeit starting the game) ?
Ugh. Fucking umps again.
Is being deeply incompetent, unintelligent and overweight a prerequisite of umpiring?
not quite, the odd guy isn’t overweight
Unearned run, umpire fuck up, baserunning mistake….ya this is how you want things to go against a cy young candidate
Bad case of the yips.
They should just keep interviewing Olympians and let us watch the game.
Sweet Jesus, I can’t wait for the first streaker.
As long as they turn the mics off this is the best suggestion i’ve heard in awhile
Need to lock up Aaron Laffey to a long term extension.
Not watching yet but lets score some runs for old Laffey.
I’m SO F*ING tired of a pitcher being called a
good athlete if his glove happens to scoop a
ground ball going 1/2 mph.
STOP THE INANITY!!!
Incompetence is the name of the game today.
I’ve never seen an ump do that.
The home plate umpire is not a good person.
the ump is drunk or hungover. refs and umps are fucking brutal in all sports this year. the fix is in, somebody is making them retarded
For fucks sake, stop giving away outs
“Yeah he makes a lot of contact also”
…..
what?
Blue must have Tourette’s Syndrome.
Escobar is seeing everything great, just let him have his AB without having to think about protecting runners, for fucks sake this team only wins when it hits so just let them hit.
Are you fucking kidding me? Double steal? WHAT THE FUCK
Glad we gave that out away. We don’t fucking deserve to win.
So in this game that is:
-Edwin out trying to stretch a single
-Rasmus out on a double steal or something
-Bautista should have been on but ump missed that
-Davis drops a ball, leading to an unearned run
and its only the 5th inning.
The Baseball Gods are fickle, and have 4 innings to smile on the home team.
There is no way Laffey is sticking around after this season. Playing with a bunch of fucking little leaguers.
WTF is it with this team and Callaspo? A team of Callaspos would hit them better than a team of Trouts and Pujolses.
How many home runs are we going to give fucking Callaspo?
This has got to be the dumbest, most irritating “interview” ever.
You hire dumb and irritating interviewers and its hard to expect anything else
You all need to… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw
I never need to hear Buck + Tabby talk about Speedos. Ever. Nightmares forever.
Someone with Photoshop skills could make them pay for that shite.
Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!~nothing at all~ nothing at all!
Stupid, sexy Flanders!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4iVQyp9L4
Ok i am home from shopping with the daughters, let the comeback commence.
Another decent start from Laffey….WTF has Laffey got that Cecil hasn’t? …
A fastball and cutter that actually gets down.
Smoke and mirrors.
Well Laffey has been pretty good today. I’m thinking he’s better than Cecil. Certainly his career hr/9 rate is much better. He can actually get the ball down.
Regardless of what Laffey has done previously this start and last have been excellent and it’s just what the team needed.
That is a good start. Thanks
Really impressed by what Laffey has done against two great offenses. Don’t see him being useful long term, but mate he can help keep the rotation above water for the rest of the year.
Might as well leave him in the rotation for the rest of the year and actually see what he’s got.
C’mon Colby…
How about this time let the runners stay where they are and don’t give away any outs.
All riiight bases loaded. C’mon Jose.
In case you missed my last post Blue Jays, I am home, I am watching, I am ready for you to score a ton of runs. Thank you.
Not much to ask, and done politely to boot. (very Canadian)
Keep complaining CJ…
Yes! Lucked out huge there.
Booted by Kendrick. Fully DIMED collision at home plate!
WTF was that
Make up call?
Weird, I didn’t think you can block a tagging arm like that and manage to not get tagged out.
Have a good rest of the weekend, Mike.
Scioscia is not impressed with our Maple Boner, but the Baseball Gods have spoken.
Looks like they didn’t like the way Lawrie launched himself at the catcher. Amazingly he shoulder blocked the glove arm and managed to not get tagged.
Maple Boner on Canada Day the play was never in doubt.
Wilson’s rattled.
CJ’s rattled, can’t let him get out of the inning.
Looks like the glove never tagged Lawrie, and then he beat it back to the plate. Close but this umpire isn’t getting any slack after this game.
I lol’d at one of the Angels coaches yelling at Lawrie.
Totally agree, just find it hard to believe the umpire actually noticed that giving how bad he’s been, probably had his eyes closed when making the call
That’s totally going to be in the sports highlights later.
Lol old helmet tosser 13 is going to be even more insufferable after that play.
Lost in all that is that a nice head first slide would have avoided that whole confrontation
THATS JUST AN AGGRO SLIDE BRO,WHAT THE FUCK IS BUTCHER CHIRPPIN ME FOR,I’LL MEET YOU OUT AT THE ROUNDHOUSE PARK FOR A DEMONSTRATION AFTER I FINISH WITH YOUR BOYZ HERE,JUST A FEW MORE RED BULL ONCE WE FINISH THIS OFF. LIVING LIFE DIMED PALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Cherry Beach might serve better.
Fuck it.
Another fucking awful baserunning play, come on the ball barely left the infield
Should not have sent him. Butterfield been doing that a lot lately.
Aggression is not a substitute for common sense.
OH BTW , MY AGENT IS FIELDING CALLS FROM THE PREDATORS, BLACKHAWKS AND CANUCKS FOR FREE AGENCY DAY, I DONT EVEN PLAY THAT FUCKIN GAME BUT THEY WANT MY PRESENCE IN FRONT OF THE NET BOTHERING THE FUCK OUT OF GOALIES
Bloody brutal. No outs no reason to risk it.
Horrible slide by my boy Cletus too. Could be the turning point of the game.
Yep. FUCK
I didn’t really see anything wrong with the slide. He didn’t have much choice there, he was DOA.
A hand first slide to the outside of the plate would have made the catchers job much more difficult there .
I won’t pretend that I’ve ever personally done that, but with the plate well blocked, wouldn’t it be difficult to reach the plate on the way in (or by?)
True, but just to play devils advocate, Hester really did have the plate almost perfectly blocked.
Yep, DOA. Absolutely no need to go head first and risk injury when the ball beats you by that much.
Can’t see game on tv how far out was Rasmus by?
10 ft
The fuck was butter doing then?
half a kilometre.
The Jays should be pretty embarrassed about how they played that entire inning.
Fucking total dogshit.
At least we knocked out wilson
Hey Baltimore and Tampa both lost.
Good chance we are too.
You need to leave the house come back in again.
Totally i was only good for 2 runs that time.
Go and pleasure yourself again. I believe that worked.
Done!
Your cummings (and goings) work to perfection my friend.
Shame Escobar is such a hacker. Hawkins didn’t throw one strike to him. Should have walked a run in on 4 pitches.
Also, the legend of Lawrie just continues to grow. He’s now added “catcher killer” to his resume along with “ump killer.”
E5 in left – this could be interesting…
Please–that particular sobriquet has been retired.
Ok now I’m back squarely on the fence where JPA’s concerned….what the hell are they going to do when D’Arnaud comes up?
My apologies. Haven’t been paying attention.
Finally retired Babe Callaspo
The Jays always seem to get screwed by the umps.
Even that “make up call” could have been arguably correct, in which case it wasn’t a make up call.
John Farrell has nice writing.
He’s not without skills.
he tocks and rites gud…btw, is that him doing that script? Seems to me it’s been like that since before Farrell.
Isn’t usually the bench or other coaches who write the official line up cards?
I read some time ago that it’s Butter who fills out the game cards.
Dafuq? This was supposed to be a reply to the comment about Farrell and nice writing on game cards.
Come on perez no more runners ffs.
WOOT!
I get the Angels being pissed at the umps, but don’t really get why they’re pissed at Lawrie. Seemed like a fair collision to me.
I hope Lawrie hits a HR now.
It’s Lawrie veering towards the catcher for the collision.
sweet
Wtg Jp!!!!
Tied!
BOOOOOM
JP just did the team and himself a world of good.
I missed the HR by JP. Another low pitch hit for a HR.
Missed this while following today’s game, but it appears Edwin Encarnacion has been snubbed by the players for the all-star game, who instead voted in Adam Dunn and Billy Butler.
Top of the order coming up and instead of Oliver, fucking Cordero is in?
Time for COCO B. WARE!
And he does it again lol man coco you know how to make the fans hate.
I hate this fucking fatass.
Dammit.
Thanks Cordero.
And the CoCo show returns
We must liberate this city from all these FAT FUCKS
aw fuck coco
FUCK MAN WHY IS OLIVER NOT IN FUCKKKKK
cordero got screwed on the previous pitch, that was strike 3.
Like I was saying, only the Jays get close calls called against them at home, it feels like.
Fuck Coco!! Someone DFA that bastard…this game is (was?) WINABLE!!!
Did Frasor pitch last night?
nope
Isn’t Frasor better than Cordero?
Wilner just got a boner, he now gets to spend another night telling off Jays fans that wisely wish Cordero had been DFA’d in April
you may just be right…there IS something about that guy.
Trout has been quiet, can’t really except him not to wake up a bit at least.
especially when the pitcher grooves a fastball….
Frasor, Oliver and Janssen all weren’t used yesterday. No excuse to not use your best relievers in a late tie game.
Exactly it’s ridiculous we’ve been through this before dammit
LOL
COCO TIME indeed.
fuck, Coco.
Thanks Cordero. Again.
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