Buck Martinez drives me crazy, oh and Jays lose.
by Tom Dakers on Jul 21, 2010 5:00 PM EDT
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That wasn't fun.
Don't want to talk about the game, I'm sure I will, but first. Buck Martinez, among the brilliant things he and Pat said, told us the Jay have to "dial up the in intensity". The difference, between the Jays and the Yankees, we are told is 'intensity'. Not, you know, $150 million in salary. Or talent. Or any of that. It is intensity. Thanks Buck.
Anyway, bad game. Marc Rzepczynski didn't pitch well. He started pretty good but ran out of gas by the 5th inning. He tends to throw too many pitches, I guess we all know that. But he gets ahead and then misses the zone by 3 feet until we have a full count. 4.2 for him, 9 hits, 1 walk, 3 k. Casey Janssen and David Purcey did great in relief.
Offense? There wasn't much. We got our first run off a Edwin Encarnacion double (5th double in the last 3 games) and a John McDonald double (good thing he was batting second). Vernon Wells had 3 hits. Overbay and Hill had one each. 0 fors for Adam Lind (though he got on on an error in the 9th, stupid score is supposed to know when a guy is on a hit streak and give him a hit on those), Jose Bautista (looked lost at the plate, but then he was great yesterday), and Jose Molina. Fred Lewis and Dwayne Wise also shared an 0 for 4. Lewis left the game after rolling his ankle. He is day to day.
Update: Adam Lind's ground ball that was called an error has been changed to a hit. He retroactively has a 14 game hitting streak. Someone obviously told the scorer that Lind had a hitting streak going.
Zack Grienke is pretty good at that pitching stuff, so shouldn't feel too bad about losing to him but we didn't look good doing it.
No Jays of the Day. Mac gets closest (.068) for driving in the first run of the day. Suckage Jay is Scrabble (-.182).
We are off to Detriot for four games there. Tomorrow's is another afternoon game. Is it a holiday on that side of the border?
I'm going to go try to get the taste of this game out of my mouth. Have a good afternoon.
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Well since you brought it up.
I have to admit, I agree with Buck. I don’t want to start a sh*t storm because (especially as of late) it has been a faux-pas to talk about intangables like intensity. I do agree that in MANY occasions, the Jays appear to lack any intensity or enthusiasm. CRAIG HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE THINKING/FEELING/EMOTING…you’re right I don’t. I do however watch other baseball teams play and the very good teams do appear to have a certain jene se qua when they play. Maybe it’s intensity, maybe its nothing. Its teams that don’t rely on the long ball, they seem to always be on their toes, run harder, play faster…again, I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Do I agree that its what differentiates the Jays with the Yankees? No…but I don’t completely disagree with Buck on this point.
by craig in calgary on Jul 21, 2010 5:12 PM EDT reply actions
i think its that everyone on the Jays are being told to go out there and hit homers as Cito orders. So with everybody swinging for the fences a lot of guys end up 0-4 or 1-4 with a couple of SO. That might give someone thd impression that they dont play with intensity.
I still think they are a good defensive team and they make a lot of good plays so i cant really say they dont hustle on D.
that jene se qua is doing little things like stealing bases, bunting, the hit-and-run and we dont have the players to do that or the manager that wants to play that kind of game
This isnt really a rant on Cito its just saying we dont have the players to play the type of baseball that gives off that jene se qua.
by FenixL on Jul 21, 2010 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
*twitch*
“Je ne sais quoi” is the expression you are going for. French for “I don’t know what”.
Sorry, 15 years of french makes me want to correct when I see it butchered like that :P
As to the points – I agree. The Jays do look like they’re going hard on D, but on O, they just don’t have the opportunity to play “small ball” which is basically what most observers seem to equate with intensity on a baseball team.
"Don't tell me it's impossible. Be honest and tell me you can't do it. Tell me you don't know how."
Speaking of Yankees, and intangable...
I though this was really funny.
Derek Jeter Leads Yankees with Dramatic Walk-Off Intangable.
by craig in calgary on Jul 21, 2010 5:15 PM EDT reply actions
here
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http://www.reverbnation.com/syc
http://www.facebook.com/thesyckid
http://www.twitter.com/thesyckid
Jobau for Madison Bumgarner
http://www.reverbnation.com/syc
http://www.facebook.com/thesyckid
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And the streak continues. I was shocked to hear at the start of this series that we haven’t won a series in KC in something like 7 years…. and yet it continues. I know we only play there once or twice a year or something but it still feels bad
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Sometimes I do feel lucky that we don't have cable TV anymore...
Although, the radio broadcast crushed today at the 1st inning, and after Mike Wilner (Don’t like him) covered a couple of innings, Jerry broadcasted all of it through his (Rogers) cell-phone. Not only did he sound like he’s in the trenches under heavy artillery, just imagine the radiation! It must have cooked his brain…
Festina Lente
It went down again today?
I know it died last night too and they had to use a land-line to do the broadcast. It was quite odd because there was no background noise (ie – stadium sounds) so when they weren’t talking, it was just dead air.
"Don't tell me it's impossible. Be honest and tell me you can't do it. Tell me you don't know how."
I listened to the game on my old radio today, it was pretty brutal. Mike was okay for his part, but you could tell he was more of an analyst than a play by play broadcaster, way too much talking. Sometimes you felt like you missed a few pitches now and then as he was talking. I think Mike knows how to do play-by-play, but his heart is being an analyst. I was glad when they got back with Jerry on the cell, but it was weird with no stadium background noise.
just a question
does radio broadcast (fan50) match perfectly with TV broadcast (RSN)?
I was thinking of muting the TV (kinda getting tired of Buck & Pat) and listening to the radio feed instead.
by YunelTheLazyLatino on Jul 21, 2010 9:16 PM EDT reply actions
Yes they match most of the time.I like to do that too.
JMac
… (good thing he was batting second).
Hmmm… Everyone disagreed yesterday.
I’m thinking that the hiring of Buck was a big mistake. I love the radio play-by-play the Jays have had over the years and I wonder why we can’t get similar quality for our TV announcers. I guess I got spoiled by Dan Shulman, who might be the best play-by-play guy on TV.
But back to Buck. Seriously, there isn’t there a better guy out there for the job? I know he’s an ex-Jay and all that, but he’s just not good. He makes so many misidentifications, blows the ball-strike count all the time, and spouts off so many meaningless things.
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