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Down to the Bottom of the Sea: Game 39, Jays at the Indians of Cleveland

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If you actually watched the entire game on Saturday, you're a far better man than I. I got in from my gig at around 8:30, saw the Jays down 12-0, and immediately put in a Netflix (The Fisher King, which I liked a lot). Between that and the bad news regarding Wells, things are looking pretty bad right now. Newcomers Wilkerson and Mench haven't exactly lit things up. Once the 10 days have passed, I hope the Jays send someone down and recall Lind - the way the offense is going, it's not like Lind can make it any worse, so we might as well give him some regular MLB at-bats and see if he shows himself to be a major-league hitter, since he will be 25 in July.

I won't be around for the game today, as it's Mother's Day and I have a feeling Mrs. Hugo might prefer, well, pretty much anything to watching the Jays flail uselessly against another left-handed pitcher. The Jays will throw Shaun Marcum, while the Indians counter with Cliff Lee, who is pitching even better this season than Marcum is. Maybe that drubbing will wake something up in the Jays, who knows? At the very least, ruining their pythagorean record will hide their pathetic performance in the clutch.

Update: 5.12.2008: Let's go ahead and use this game thread for this afternoon's 4 pm game. Torgen is, as usual, right on the mark, and I jumped the gun one start. It's A.J. Burnett against Fausto Carmona this afternoon, and then the 2nd half of the trad. doubleheader will be the Marcum-Lee matchup.

 

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Today is Burnett vs. Carmona

Marcum vs. Lee is tomorrow.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 12:52 PM EDT   0 recs

Now that's shaking up the lineup

Wilkerson, Hill, Rios, Rolen, Stairs, Overbay, Scutaro, Barajas, Inglett (in LF)

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 12:55 PM EDT   0 recs

And it's raining

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 1:01 PM EDT   0 recs

Interesting that the games in Detroit and Pittsburgh have been called already

and in Cleveland they’re trying to wait it out.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 2:19 PM EDT   0 recs

Well, now they've called it

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 2:34 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh joy, it's going to be a regular-style doubleheader

not the day-night kind.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 11, 2008 5:03 PM EDT   0 recs

Try as in try to be somewhere where you can watch it?

Or try as in try not to be repulsed by what you see?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I guess I like what they've done with the starting staff

Put in young guys and watch them improve….course I guess that wasn’t the plan last year….the old, used to be good pitchers they signed got hurt and they had to use the young guys…..now the hitters are getting hurt and they search out older used to be good players.

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

1-2-3 in the first for the Jays

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:09 PM EDT   0 recs

Burnett looks good thought....

nice K to start the game

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:14 PM EDT   0 recs

Rolen takes a walk....

Lets see how Stairs does against Carmona’s fastball….

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:21 PM EDT   0 recs

Grounds into a double play

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:22 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Can we stop pulling the ball yet?

At least Stairs’ GIDP ball was up the middle.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:24 PM EDT   0 recs

Scoot's been so hot

I thought he should be leading off. At least until he cools off again.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Against lefties, anyways.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Inglett can't swing on a hit and run

and Barajas makes it back to the bag.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT   0 recs

What was that?

is there some law that says we have to have a runner thrown out on the bases every game…...just made it back

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT   0 recs

Well the ball was below his knees and inside

Not much swing you can put on that

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

RISP time!

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:39 PM EDT   0 recs

0 for 1

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:40 PM EDT   0 recs

Absolutely

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

0 for 2

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:43 PM EDT   0 recs

He came highly recommended by Derek Jeter

a man with a vested interest in our failure. How can we blame him?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

another K for AJ

5 now…..what’s the most K’s in a game for the Jay’s this year?

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:53 PM EDT   0 recs

I woudl assume so

Carmona is a ground ball machine.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Rios singles into the Bermuda Triangle

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT   0 recs

The opposite field Bermuda Triangle, no less

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Rios not running

but breaks up the double play.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:57 PM EDT   0 recs

He was probably thinking

“Pevey is waving me to third.”

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 4:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Tabler is saying what a good play it was for Rolen....

Damn it you get 27 outs a game don’t give them away

by rincewind on May 12, 2008 4:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

24 if you count Barajas.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Another fly ball for Wilk

this one almost not caught.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:16 PM EDT   0 recs

AJ lucked out

That was almost game over.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:34 PM EDT   0 recs

And that's game over.

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:36 PM EDT   0 recs

Stairs breaks up the double play

because we have enough of those already. Overbay, why are you pulling the ball?

"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"

by Torgen on May 12, 2008 5:44 PM EDT   0 recs