It's Memories that I'm Stealing, But You're Innocent When You Dream: GameThread for Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox, 30 Sept 2009, 7:10 PM EDT
by jessef on Sep 30, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
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Well, our corvids look to keep our their fine play over the last week and a half (having won five straight and eight of the last nine).
Roy Halladay is on the hill for the Jays and -- since Boston backed into the playoffs last night with a Texas loss -- the Red Sox send out their B-Squad, featuring Joey Gathright in centre, Josh Reddick in left, Alex Gonzalez at short (with Jed Lowrie playing third in Mike Lowell's stead) and another old friend of ours, Chris Woodward. While the SAWKS may not be playing their best, it won't be easy for Doc to live up to the expectations he set with his last start, in which he recorded nine strikeouts and zero walks in a shutout of the Mariners.
Kevin Millar gets another start at third for the Toronto nine (and this time he bats third in the lineup? I understand that's because of Wakefield, but still . . .) and Randy Ruiz gets the start at DH.
If it's Doc's last start as a Jay, I hope it's a good one.
Today's thread title comes from the Tom Waits song "You're Innocent When You Dream"
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Doc against a bunch of Triple-A players and backups....
if you could put long shot money on a no hitter this would be the type of game
Of course papelbon has so much to be bitter about
lind hit three homers that game. papelbon’s only won two world series in his career so far.
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Did you hear the jays laid off about two dozen more staffers, no one from the
baseball operations. Still not a strong indicator of any type of payroll boost
Millar hitting third?
come on
that should be Ruiz or Snider … heck i would even rather see Johnny Mac in that spot
hmmmm Ruiz is far from young...
I’d guess he’s the type that would do well against a knuckle ball pitchers
Millar finds your lack of faith disturbing….
/makes the force choking sign
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
well, the fact that he will not be with Jays next year and Snider will and hopefully so will Ruiz, so naturally you would like to “invest” the AB in next season
if i were wakefield
i would tell the red sox i’m thinking about retiring so they would decline their option and then go for the surgery and sign with another team
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wakefield has a bizarre contract
every year the red sox can take a 4 M dollar option.
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Yeah he is a Red Sox through and through Like Johnny Damon…. wait… nevermind
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
ball doesn't flutter as much in cold air, right?
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How do you think someone figured out to throw a knuckle for the first time ever….
Alright I want to learn how to throw a pitch that defys physics and moves like a whiffleball.
Brilliant! I’ve got just the thing!
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i read the origins of the curveball
that one is fascinating. candy cummings was like 150 lbs and lived in brooklyn and wanted the ball to curve like a seashell
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nice to see wakefields knuckler isnt so sharp tonight
he always seems to baffle the jays
of course
when I say “throw,” I can’t locate the ball and when I say “hit,” I mean in the batting cages
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in the words of Jamie Campbell
“he got schooled”
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i would say
Ruiz may have been mis-judged his whole career
It's Johnny Mac
They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.
maybe
Jays should sign Kotchman with the good glove at first if Edwin is gonna play 3rd … LOL ;-)
about the same glove and less bat than overbay
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I wonder what the ump said to doc
“Fair enough, you’ve made your point” — something like that?
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or he might have looked at Ortiz’s huge stature and looked to Roy and said “you aren’t particularly smart are you?”
LOL, that little nugget comes from a guy I knew in university, who was really big and some smallish guy tried to mug him in London, UK so he beat up the mugger. In court, the judge looked at the beaten up would-be mugger and my larger associate and said to the mugger “you aren’t particularly smart are you?”
LOL
thought the same
but if he finishes it up perfect I’ll be satisfied
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yikes
not sure Ortiz is the guy i would pick to plunk … LOL
if he was moving his arm down
when he got hit, that might be good because his triceps would be extending at that point
ok
now lets get serous
this guy has answered the call every single time he has been asked since call up
well, as to Ruiz hitting solo taters
i would point out that he is hitting late in order where there are less likley to be base runners hence the larger share of solo taters
i don't think you have to convince anyone here
about the non-existence of clutch hitting
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That's what Bob Ueker said about catching a knuckle ball, it's easy
you just wait till it stops rolling and you pick it up
doc's only struck out one
not easy to pitch a no-hitter unless you strike a bunch of guys out
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But striking a bunch of guys out takes a bunch of pitches
They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.
Grienke will win im pretty sure
then Felix Hernandez maybe in 2nd.. Doc 3rd or 4th… havent really checked their stats or anything thats just what im assuming.
Onions Baby Onions
yep, that's the problem
Greinke and Verlander have been legitimately as good (or better) and Felix has been great and lucky and CC has a lot of wins
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If doc hadn't lost two (three really) starts to the groin strain
I think he’d definitely be third
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the complete games might buy him a vote or two
and depending on how he finishes tonight
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Not sure
His reputation will help. And if he finishes with a strong game tonight that will really help
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not that he should need help
but I assume C.C. will be ahead of him (though I don’t think he should be)
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they called that first at bat a single? Thought it was an error easy...
slightly more chance of Ruiz hitting a triple than Millar
So I just decided
Ruiz makes the team as at least a bench player next year. Then second we need to find a Joey Gathright/Corey Patterson etc that can be a 4th outfielder and be a real pinch runner. Then over the off season Lind learns to play outfield.
Unfortunately the OF will suck but whatever.
this is what you want to happen
or this is what you are resigned to as happening?
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The Ruiz thing
Is what I want. I really don’t see us spending that much money and I think Ruiz deserves a shot.
Then second, find a cheap guy that can fly. It was an embarrasment that Johnny Mac was the pinch runner this year.
"The Jays are putting the boots to the Red Sox"
Medium-style?
They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.
now he has to keep the shutout
gathright is probably going to take second
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though if he does
it would be ridiculous down by 10 runs
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this guy (hunter jones) looks like he should be bartending in a diner
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played one game at third in RookieBall
back in 2000, when he was 18 years old.
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If they would have been playing in the outfield
they might have had a chance
They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.
It was a line drive that landed at the cut of the grass
Rolen isn’t 12 feet tall.
They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.
If William Wallace was playing third
he’d have had it!
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nice play rod
and surprising that redsox fans let him reach for it
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pen is up . . .
must be getting work in with the day off tomorrow, right? doc’s only at 81 pitches
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You think doc would come out of this one?
I kind of get the feeling he wants to finish what he started
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Cito doesn't exactly strike me as the top to take him out
and certainly not against his wishes
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i wouldn't mind seeing dirk get work
but at 85 pitches it seems kind of silly to take him out when he’s working on a shutout
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what kind of celebration will the Resox hold???
when they have been playing so poorly the last 2 weeks and they got in on another team misfortune ( they were going to clinched eventually but still), I would be really concern if i was a Boston fan
hahaha
i put money on it when you said, he made me lose it
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yeah...it will be your fault...
he’ll read that and decide ‘I don’t want to pitch for the Jays anymore’
ha
my guess is, A. he won’t read it, B. if he did, he’d know it was in jest, C. if by some unexplainable happenstance he didn’t know it was in jest, he wouldn’t care.
but i’ll append this with:
Please stay, Doc!
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