Triple Play? Pfft. No Big Deal.
Cleveland Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera slayed Jays fans last night by performing an unassisted triple play in the fifth inning.
While lesser fans and sports commentators have been making a big deal out of the play. Johnson Burbank wants you to know that he turns a triple play once a week.
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Y'know, I never saw that triple play as I was in London and of course never bothered to look for it imagining that it would just make my heart turn to shit.
But after watching it, it actually looks pretty gay.
If Scutaro was a fraction as gritty as Eckstein he would have tried hustling back to first.
hey guys i just listened to this week's podcast. Already you guys seem more comfortable. Too bad Kelly didn't make it on but I guarantee no one will ever stiff you again. Cat-Hale was my favorite.
That video game dude must get mad tail.
As for the triple play, the colour commentating dude was remarking about what a rare instance it was for the Jays to have two on base with no outs. And then the next thing you know...
I like how he throws the same pitch every pitch. Just like people who run that same bullshit WR Pass play in Madden where the corner drops off so you just run it every play. God, I hate people.
Funny how all the pundits made a big deal out of the triple play and Lee's performance.You would have thought that the Tribe won the game.It reminds me of that stupid Fisk home run ,the Sux lost the World Series.The triple play is easier to swallow,because the Jays won although they should learn from their mistakes.In the end,Lee's pitching and Cabrera's play meant NOTHING.The Jays got the W and the Tribe got the glory,I'd rather have the W,thank you.
"Stoeten and Parkes are also Dutch"? HAHAHAHAHA.
They may be dutch fans . . . and Stoeten's dad is dutch . . . but come one!
They're as Dutch as i'm unobnoxious.
And um... everyone on that side of my family for like hundreds of years. But yeah, I know what you mean.
I didn't know blacks played baseball games. I learned something today
Wow runner on 3rd 1 out and 0 runs. So it begins again haha
haha rance the jinxer
It would be awesome to score before the 7th or 8th inning tonight.
Somehow I think the Jays are going to have more than one unassisted triple play turned on them this year.
We're going to see all the possible defensive plays. Someone is going to double to the pitcher, then get bunted home on a bunt double. Then an inside the park home run. Next inning, a 4-5-2-8-7 double play.
Jamie and Tabler are fucking retards. The ball was obviously dropped at 2nd base to turn the double play and that thought never even crosses either of their two minds. He can't make it look obvious or they would have called deception.
Doesn't mean Stewart's not the reason. Running like a lazy cock eater . . . droolin all over the place and gaggin' and shit. Eckstein woulda ran that out! haha.
LOL, a 4-5-2-8-7 DP is 2nd to 3rd to home to center to right.
I'd pay to see that.
Game over.
Well... they'll get 'em tomorrow...
sp--i always feel the need to correct shit. this supposed double play would end in left field.
thx
yer mama
Stairs is an on-base machine these days. Good on Lyle for the juicy double as well.
So, now they're really going to have to find a way to fuck this one up...
Playoffs!
The first video is why I love youtube. The second video is why I have a love-hate relationship with youtube.
yer mama, I meant to say left but wrote right. What is it called when that happens?
I love it when Lyle doubles to left-center. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
They're saying Purcey will get called up to start saturday, then get sent down. I'm not sure how the wacky baseball rules work, but can't he be claimed by another team like Banks?
15 pitches. The stuff Mad Magazine sketches are made of.
Greatest Blue Jay Ever.
Quick, when was the last Jays HR?
May 8th in Tampa.
read: ugh.
PlayoffS!
Anon re: Purcey: No. He can go up and down with no repercussions.
Oh yeah, and GREATEST. BLUE JAY. EVER.
Sooooo... was 70 pitches the limit tonight? I mean I'm all for light workloads but he didn't seem to be struggling.
Hill landed hard on his right shoulder too... perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Kay ya... this is going to get some people goin...
HERE WE GO!!!!
didn't think it was a horrible move when he brought him in, though it did seem a bit early to be playing matchups
oh well
Where are all the guys who think Gibbons rides guys too long tonight?
Doing a dance, no doubt... a dance of pain. I just think Litsch could have easily finished the 6th.
It's super lucky we got out of that one with the lead. I'm not sure Jesse can even look at Gibbons right now.
Gibbons hooks guys too fast!!!!
Litsch was cruising, it seemed. A puzzling decision perhaps, but let's score some more runs and let the bullpen lock it down.
Meh... Morneau hit Litsch pretty hard in his previous AB, no? Which isn't to argue that this worked out.
And now... probably for the first time ever... I'm sorta hoping Frasor comes out for the next inning. Ugh.
I found myself actually wanting Morneau to hit that ball out actually and not because he's a Canadian (I actually kinda hate that greasy fuck to be honest) but in order to show how silly a move it was to start playing matchups in the 6th with a starter in control with only 70 pitches thrown. And also to see Gibbons get fired sooner rather than later. And that's not because of a crazy, sky is falling cockface either. It just seems, for reasons I can't really explain in full volume, that it's time.
Yeah who is pitching the 7th? The 8th is Downs territory and uh ... I don't want to see the fat black guy out there right now.
I love when Gibby comes strolling out of the dugout. He looks like he has a broomstick crammed up his ass when he walks around.
Armando is definitely going to surface tonight. I doubt he's the new mop up man... That seems to be Tallet.
Wow a double play ball that wasn't turned... intense.
yer mama: that would be his knees. I've got bad ones and I stagger like that some times. Catchers have no knees at that age... they just have the ends of bone rubbing against each other.
It's what stopped his playing career.
I don't like pulling Litsch there. He'd only thrown 70 pitches and 1st base was open so you could have walked Monroe to get to Cuddyer. Sorry but this was yet another blunder some Gibbons.
I do agree with you Stoeten, Frasor should come out and work the 7th. Reason? This is another close game that could possibly go to extra innings and we can't afford to blow through relievers like a sailor through Thai hookers on shore leave.
wow i was not expecting a hit there
andrew--as a guy who like shoving stuff up his ass i know that its a lack of ky jelly causing uncomfortable rubbing in his rectum.
haha intentionally walking rios to pitch to rolen? what the shit
Possibly the first time the Balkman will get use in back to back games.
Does anyone know of any software that we can run in a post that will update constantly? Does that exist?
That could be a pretty swell idea, and we could just set up an open post for road games.
I should've explained that better.
I was thinking like some sort of chat software that runs remotely.
Anyone hear of anything like that?
We could make our own wikipedia.
I think I know what your saying like running a chat in a post that everyone can add to instead of going to the comments.
I have no idea other than that would be awesome.
dpedd61... Now, I completely know that it isn't you the other times, but Gibbons also gets shit on when he leaves pitchers in for what people think is way too long. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't most times. And if the bullpen holds it looks like a stroke of genius, or if Litsch stays in and blows it he's been left in too long.
Also, Warren, though I'm not saying I've thought enough about it to say for sure I agree with Gibbons, but a quick look at Litsch's splits shows there are definitely red flags about keeping Jesse in at that point-- poor performance with runners on, and the deeper into the game he gets, the 6th and beyond in particular. Plus, Morneau, before tonight was 3 for 5 against him with 2 RBIs, and Morneau, I believe hit one pretty hard in the previous AB.
Yeah. Exactly. MLBTR does something like that for their weekly chats. It seems to be moderated though, and I don't know how easily you can put something like that into blogger.
You may need to get your own host for that. Unmoderated live chats are bandwidth hogs for the servers.
You could always start up an IRC channel. But that might be too old skool.
You all open this in a full tab at least, right? It's really not so bad. I kinda like seeing all these comments on our posts. Makes people who don't read them think that we're way more popular than we are... and then offer us ads and podcasts and video games to give away.
an irc room would be cool but it might kill the ingame comments and honestly who doesn't want to read a wall of FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
WHAT HAVE THESE IMPOSTORS DONE WITH THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS???
ok, dennys reyes clearly has a much bigger dome than mench
Hitting refresh every bit is annoying, but not that bad. But if you can figure something like that out it would be bad ass.
hits!
incidentally if anyone's seriously considering the irc thing go with synirc.net not some shitty gaming network or whatever the fuck
Fair enough and I agree...there are dudes out there that will rag his ass out no matter which way he goes and that is very douch-esque. I think Gibbon's MO over his 4 years has tended to vere far closer to pullig the plug on starters too early than leaving them in too long (as witnessed by the absolute dearth of Jays starts with over 110 pitches thrown by the starter).
I'm always of the belief that you live and die with the starter as long as you can and the bullpen (outside the set-up man, closer and possibly lefty specialist) arefor the situations where the starter can't get it done. Even the other night, when Marcum came back out and got beat up a bit in the 9th, I was cool with that 100% (albeit a little bummed he couldn't seal the deal).
Either way though - I'm not stroking out over it or anything since the end mostly justifies the means...just sayin is all.
1st and 2nd with nobody out. lets see what way we can find to get out of this without scoring any mother fucking runs
Stew's starting to look good at the plate again
What a Mensch!
There are thousands of irc servers and I don't doubt there's a Jays room somewhere out there. But I'm lazy.
Denneys Reyes looks like he needs a stop at Denney's. Or he needs to stop going to Denney's.
*facepalms*
i expected nothing less from benitez
There's the Armando I remember...
lmao...first pitch as a Bjay
tossing 95 mph though... not bad. Works quickly too
Home run, strikeout and walk. Call it the Armandon Benitez Hattrick.
Benitez had a great run in New York (the less bad one) but he's only pitched about 8 innings this year.
He should be running mop up / 6th inning and be a good addition. If not just to add the #9 active saves leader for that intangible veteran presence.
At least the Jays aren't loosing 3-0 again.
snakeface gets the job done
SNAKEFACE!
BALKMAN CLOSER OVERDRIVE!
pffffffffffffff. . . yikes. Too close.
Litsch is 5-1... where's the 411 on that??
Oh, right... his ERA.
What a very normal baseball game, compared to the 2-1 and 1-0 affairs we've been living through.
Scott Rolen for best PERSON ever? I think so.
Btw, defense wins championships
Stoeten: I agree, don't have Litsch pitch to Morneau. IBB him and pitch to Cuddyer, which saves another warm up and sit down by Carlson. Still, that's the only problem I had with Gibbons tonight and I'll gladly take that as the thought of winning two in a row has be down right giddy.
It's about time they played a game where they didn't make me want to break things. I'd like to see a few more, though.
I bet the score would allow you (perhaps pay you??) to hold your game chats over there . . . and you could just link to it in a post.
Yea, seriously, they could generate some good ad revenue in the chat window.
Fuck. That's actually not a terrible idea.
I'm a real ideas man.
I'm also your new manager. Haha.
I know Kissing Suzy Kolber, the football blog (fucking hilarious too for those of you who follow the NFL), hosted a live chat deal on NFL Draft Day. It worked OK, but they had to moderate so I'm not sure if you guys want to do that. Could be kind of distracting and just generally shitty. You also don't seem to care what gets posted.
Of course I also have no idea what it was or where they got it. So this is most likely useless.
My wife has a favorite baseball player. My wife also has a pet fish. My wife is the best wife because, while she's not really into baseball, she really tries for my sake. She wants to share something I love with me so she watches the games and asks questions and does her best to learn about something she really couldn't care less about.
My wife's favorite baseball player is Reed Johnson. Her primary reason for him being her avorite player is about what you'd expect for her demographic. Reed Johnson "has the sexiest arms". Valid or not I find it endearing and I was totally on board when she decided to name her new pet fish Reed Johnson. She insisted on everyone using both names and always called our fish by both names when she talked to him (which she did frequently).
We have a nice home for Reed Johnson. We bought a large fish bowl, some nice, large, smooth stones and a very authentic looking olde English castle replica (miniature) to decorate the the space. We clean it once every five days or so to keep things fresh and to keep Reed Johnson happy. Tonight was cleaning night so I had to pause the Jays game on the PVR right when John Gibbons was pulling Litch (WTF was that about anyway?) and do the deed. I really don't mind, I kind of like Reed Johnson and I love my wife so what's to be upset about?
I finished up, cleaned everything, put the stones and the castle back in the bowl and placed it back on the table where it belongs. I took a few minutes to watch Reed Johnson swim around and act crazy (like he always does after a water change) and I was satisfied everything was OK so I went back to watching the baseball game.
My wife went to check on him sometime later during a commercial break and immediately called me over to the fish bowl. She wanted me to see something she thought was important and serious. One of the large, decorative stones that we put on the bottom of his fishbowl had come somehow come loose (or fallen or something I have no fucking idea) and landed on Reed Johnson's head. It was a fatal blow. Reed Johnson is dead. His head was crushed.
At first my wife was kind of chuckling. I said to her "Well, I know it's just a fish but I think this is kind of sad." At that she immediately broke down and started sobbing. I felt really bad. Not only did I kill Reed Johnson (through carelessness with these obviously dangerous stones) but I was also made my wife break down and cry. She blames her breakdown on the fact she's pregnant and has hormones racing or something, but I really blame it on myself. I feel really bad. It's almost enough to make me cry. I just want to say that it really sucks when you not only kill something but also make someone you love cry at the same time (in case you didn't know).
Since I'm posting this pathetic(and really long) story and also hoping people won't be shitting down my throat for it, I'd like to say thanks and officially apologize to all the DJFs who I slammed for their boring stories about ankle injuries a while back (when PMoD was injured). I was out of line. You were just sharing and I was insensitive.
I also want to say fish are really fucking stupid.
Guys, do you realize how awesome our defense is? We have 7 GG caliber position players. We have arguably the best rotation in the majors and one of the best bullpens. IF our offense ever comes around LOOK OUT. I can totally see a 18 wins 20 games kind of streak happening.
j.d. give yer wife some J.D. (the drink).
Fuck, the only way to make that one up to her is to get a new large aquarium or a faggoty hamster... are you going to cremate? have a burial?
Maybe Johnson commited suicide . . .
beau...she actually wants a puppy. I can't deal with a puppy. I tell her "You're getting a baby, you don't need a puppy".
There will be no fancy burial or anything. I plucked him up out of the bowl and went to flush him down the toilet. I asked my wife if she wanted to come with me and say goodbye to Reed Johnson and that just made her cry more. I don't get women.
You don't want a new puppy and a new baby in the same year. Trust me on this. Whatever you do, do not buy a puppy while your wife is pregnant. Do not do it.
Obviously, you name the new fish Shannon Stewart.
Also, if you only read this portion of the story, it's much more interesting:
I had to pause the Jays game on the PVR right when John Gibbons was pulling Litch (WTF was that about anyway?) and do the deed. I really don't mind, I kind of like Reed Johnson and I love my wife so what's to be upset about?
I finished up, cleaned everything, put the stones and the castle back in the bowl and placed it back on the table where it belongs.
MBE...You're preaching to the choir (converted?)
Parkes...Since it's my turn to name something and I want to move away from all the bad memories associated with "pets named after Blue Jays" I was seriously consitering "Horrendous" after The Librarian's cat on the Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
Sadly, that does make the story seem more interesting. It's been one of those nights. I can't catch a break. Dead fish, sad wife, and early morning mockery. Life doesn't get any better than this.
How about Johnson Burbank?
That's going to be my new, staying in a hotel name.
I almost ended a relationship with a girl when I told her that I never liked HHoF when I was a kid.
Even if you never liked HHoF you still had to respect The Librarian and The Professor (Julius Sumner Miller).
I wish I got where the Johnson Burbank came from but my scope is limited. What I studied in university never once brought me close to "writing furiously about how Mark Leyner's Et Tu Babe is the poststructuralist equivalent to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
I don't even know what that means. I'm a poor reader. What about some of Dan Brown's work? That rocks.
It's going to be really difficult to platoon 3 new fish in that same tank.
"faggoty hamster"...!
I just pissed myself.
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