2023 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[Karl]

Stolen Base. Nice going Espy.

[Karl]

So are we gettin another Springer dinger or a Springer dinker?

[Jiri Hrdina]

I like Whit

[Karl]

Whit is an incredible base runner...all out but with brains too.

[Karl]

C'mon Jays. This is your moment.

Something good please.

Do it Kirk. Do it.

[Karl]

Yes Captain Kirk!!!!!!

Way to go big man.

[Karl]

So is that enough runs to seal this win?

I sure hope so.

[Karl]

Swanson's Fastball velocity seems a couple MPH off today.

[Party Elephant]

Does anyone else subscribe to MLB tv? It's a pretty good service, better I'd say than the NHL equivalent although I haven't bought that in years so maybe it's better now.

My only complaint with MLB tv right now is that they show highlight clips in place of the commercial breaks. Shouldn't be a big deal but they haven't updated the highlights they show since opening day! I'm particularly annoyed by the corny stuff the commentators say over the highlights that I've now seen hundreds of times each.

-Jordan Walker's first MLB hit
-Anthony Volpe's first MLB hit "He'll be hoping for what, 2000 more of those? Hyuck Hyuck"
-Trout and Ohtani hit back to back home runs
-Aaron Judge's first home run of the season "Can we call that 63? Hyuck hyuck"
-Xander Bogaerts first home run as a Padre "X marks the spot!"
-Trayce Thompson hit 3 home runs in a game "No way! Trayce Thompson STOP IT!" (I find this one the most annoying)

That's it. 6 highlights, all from the first couple days of the season.

[TBone290]

Way to blow it

[Jiri Hrdina]

Ooof

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by Karl

So is that enough runs to seal this win?

I sure hope so.

Nope.

[Karl]

#### off O'Hearn you freaking wannabe hitter.

[ben voyonsdonc]

A closer who relies on sliders isn’t elite.

[Karl]

Romano failing...

[Karl]

What a waste. One of the few outings where Manoah looked half decent this year.

[Karl]

Great. Now the Jays get another reliever with huge velocity stuff. Never seems to end with that O bullpen.

[Karl]

Would sure be great if Varsho wasn't such ass with his bat...

[ben voyonsdonc]

Atkins and Shapiro have created a luxury tax team that can’t win because they just refuse to seriously address their bullpen. Pop, Bass, and Swanson, while improvements, are far from the game changers that the team needs.

[Beninho]

Blowing leads to other AL east teams is excruciating to watch. Losing gurriel and Teoscars bats make the bullpen that much more important and they are just average. Won’t be good enough in the long run. Every team in this division has bullpens full of guys with great velocity.