Time Is An Ocean But It Ends At The Shore: 3/14 Game Preview and Thread, Braves at Blue Jays
by hugo on Mar 14, 2010 12:45 PM EDT
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Hi everyone. Happy Daylight Savings Time.
The Jays take on the Braves again today. The lineup:
Jose Bautista, 3b
Aaron Hill, 2b
Adam Lind, lf
Vernon Wells, cf
Lyle Overbay, 1b
Randy Ruiz, dh
John Buck, c
Alex Gonzalez, ss
Travis Snider, rf
Brandon Morrow starts today for the Jays (3 innings), with Josh Roenicke (2), Shawn Camp (1), Scott Downs (1), Jason Frasor (1), and Kevin Gregg (1) all to follow.
In other news, Dustin McGowan was scheduled to throw his second simulated game this morning. Assuming everything goes well, the plan was to start working him into games next week. But we'll have to see how today goes first.
Alden Gonzalez had an article on lefty rotation hopeful Dana Eveland on bluejays.com today. I thought this bit from Cito was interesting:
"[Eveland's] pitching real well," Gaston said. "We're just going to keep running him out there and hope he continues to pitch like that. If there's no space on this club, he'll certainly be close to go and get it [elsewhere] if he had to. It's just that this is a good spring for us, as far as pitching. We have a lot of good pitchers here this year, and it may just go down to the wire, see who could take those jobs."
As I mentioned this morning in our pitching spring training rundown and Andy Mc pointed out in yesterday's comments while listening to Eveland strike out 4, give up 2 singles (one which should have been caught by Jeremy Reed) and walk no one over his 3 innings, Eveland is out of options. I don't see any way a 26-year old lefty pitcher who has already had some major-league success and who has pitched well this spring clears waivers, so I think the Jays have to find a spot for Eveland or lose him. My guess is that if Eveland continues to pitch well, the Jays will try to find a spot for him, even if it means using him in the bullpen and optioning Jeremy Accardo, Casey Janssen, or Jesse Carlson. Of course anything could happen over the next few weeks.
Today's title comes from the Bob Dylan song "Oh Sister" off probably my second or third favourite Dylan record, Desire. The quote seemed fitting given that today is March forward here in North America.
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nice to see
them try snider and lind in the outfield with ruiz at dh
Gets a ground out for the third out.
with all these ground ball pitchers….we barely need outfielders
"Hi everyone. Happy Daylight Savings Time"
Is that tonight then?
shocked..my dollar store alarm clocked changed by itself
by bowling_kid25 on Mar 14, 2010 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
nope =(
but my gf just informed me she did it when i went to the washroom
boo i thought i got a good deal
by bowling_kid25 on Mar 14, 2010 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions
when all the changes started to happen with the lineup, jerry and allan thought
that Freddy Freeman was at bat and were wrong about 4 times in a row until the stadium announcer announced that Freddy Freeman was actually up to bat.
It was funnier than my poor description of it.
oh ok....I guess I did hear the end of that...
I heard the stadium announcer loudly announce his name, but didn’t know the joke.
hey hey
how’s the game going?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I got up at 6 and ran 12 miles before I remembered the time change
now I need a nap
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
making me tired....
I had a late night last night, then the good folks in the house woke me up when they got up for church
I missed some....wife is going off for the week, helped her pack up....
sounds like Morrow made a mistake
I missed it too
doing laundry
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that's sort of what I took from the comment too
but I’m not sure that’s up to him
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
the eveland part, that is
not the moron part
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Ruiz bomb
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I don't know
Cito seems pretty dead set on Bautista leading off. Maybe if EE has a setback
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
too bad they are both righthanded
with pronounced platoon splits
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
they said he was going to start playing this week, though
if he does, he’d be pretty much on schedule to start the season.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Woo Radio back up on the window ledge…. Full of Static but I can still hear it!
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Just for spring training? Nah Im good
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
our adventurousness on the basepaths
is really not paying off this spring
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yes
the old pi day, ides of march two-day holiday
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I tried to get Pi day off work last year. Boss wasn’t buying it.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
when I worked in a lab
we had a June 22 mole day holiday. not the whole day, though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Ah whenever a holiday comes up on my calendar for any day during the year I ask to leave work.
Hey its labour day in New Zealand can I go home???
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
in my job, no one pays any attention to when people come and go
we can leave or take off whenever we want, just have to set our away message. we all have so much work they know they are getting their money’s worth, and then some
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
it's super-awesome to set your own hours
less super-awesome that you are setting them around a 70-hour workweek.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that's why i chose not to go to law school
ppl told me you have to love it, it’s not worth the money sometimes, and law school is hell lol
you definitely have to love it
or at least love the money, I guess. with law school, it depends. I had more fun in law school than ever before, or since.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
rmember i mentioned that i was in DC during that protest...
just how big was that relatively speaking?
it was a big one
nowhere near as big as the anti-war protests during the Bush Administration, though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
it was bizarre
the whole block that I work on was closed off for it. I had to wade through thousands of really angry people holding crazy signs, some of the craziest being held by little kids, just to get to my office.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
ya they had the whole part between the captol building and supreme court closed
and the area to the left (when walking from monument)
yeah
this doesn’t concern me in the slightest. Unless it leads to Gregg getting the closer job, and not even really then.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
just hope it's just one of those outings
and there’s no injury
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
he has been hiding it well
for the past, what, 50 years?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Watched him 'interview' Paul and Ringo about the Love thing
He didn’t even know who he was talking to. Amazing a guy can do that little preparing and still keep a job.
that was absolutely unbelievable
I think King’s problem, besides being a complete idiot, is that he isn’t interested in anything other than himself. That doesn’t make for very good interviews.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I saw him interview Bill James years ago....
was just funny. Had no idea why he was talking to this guy.
Hugo... you still need to write that post explaining how you and jesse became jays fans, in the USA
would be interesting to hear
that's a good idea
it involves a lot of hating the Yankees and Red Sox and a hilarious and disastrous family trip to Toronto
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Yeah I actually always wondered that.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
or maybe I should outsource it to Dirk
have you guys read any of his Twitter stories on how various Jays players became Jays? The Brad Mills one is pretty hilarious.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Warning track power to center for Hill
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
he doesn't hit a lot of home runs to center, if I recall
pulled most of them last season
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
IMO we need 2 durable long guys in the BP this year...
so if cito needs to put Tallet in the rotation there should be a spot for Eveland in the BP with Eveland and Camp as the long guys… Even though i´d like to have Casey J. around with the Blue Jays maybe we have to send him down as he has options left to make room for Eveland.
by jaysfanfromeurope on Mar 14, 2010 2:45 PM EDT reply actions
assuming that's what they want to do,
I wonder whether Janssen or Accardo would be the odd man out. Carlson has options left too, but his job seems safer even with two other lefties in the pen.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
sounded like Buck was on that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
lots of that is on the pitchers, too
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Downs seemed sharp
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
he could use a good outing
I don’t think his spot on the team is in any real jeopardy, but there are a lot of pitchers hanging around still.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
and he had one
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Padilla got hit
“in a pretty bad place”
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
w00t
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
and he phrases it as a question
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yup
so do I
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Post is now up on MLBTraderumors… still quoting the same source though. Nothing else coming up on twitter either.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
If everyone were on Twitter....
wouldn’t it just be a lot of undescernible noise?
follow up question...
how do I spell discernible?
good enough for a fanshot though!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
It mostly is just a bunch of noise. But it is handy when you are following a ton of writers and they all have different sources.
Makes trade deadline days tons of fun
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
he's not
wonder what the plan for him is.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
they put him on the 40-man
to protect him from the Rule 5. That makes me think they have some plan for him
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that's not a problem
if Ruiz makes the Jays though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
at least, until/unless Cooper
is ready to move up
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Roenicke in
gives up a quick single
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
swing and a miss
Roenicke using that 96 mph cheese
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
not a bad inning for Josh
although he wasn’t really facing major-league hitters
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
same here
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
whoops
Tom, you beat me to the Fanshot. I just posted one. Fail!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
are you sure?
yours got a comment already
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
my guess is
that when he saw that teams were really interested, he figured he could drive up the price by coming closer to his real age as it would make him closer to the majors. 19-year old guy you figure is years off
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
hit for the Big Lubanski
that hit really tied the game together
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
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