Ball game! One of the most enjoyable games I've seen over my time in watching the Jays.
"What do they do in hockey when you score 4 goals? Throw an octopus on the ice?"
LMFAO Ben Revere is ****ing hilarious. I am really starting to Iike this guy. He seems like a cool chilled teammate to hang out with in the clubhouse.
Really Gose? It's 15-1 and you're trying to take out the guys leg and potentially hurt him?
That's dumb.
I disagree about the Gose slide. No matter how far down a team is, they should always play to get as many runs as possible. But that's just me.
I'm as big a Jays fan as anyone, but I don't understand this line of thinking (not just you, Buck and Pat were going on about it as well).
If the Jays want to run up a 9-1 score to 15-1 against a hapless Tigers team today, you can't expect the other team to be happy about it. Want to keep playing and going for the fences when it is 9-1, then 13-1? Well, we shouldn't be whining when the other teams keeps playing, too.
It wasn't dirty. It was a baseball play you see almost every day, 15-1 score or not.
I'm loving this run, and this offense, as much as anyone, but no one should expect the Tigers, or anyone else, to just roll over when the Jays decide to run up the score and pad their stats.
I'm as big a Jays fan as anyone, but I don't understand this line of thinking (not just you, Buck and Pat were going on about it as well).
If the Jays want to run up a 9-1 score to 15-1 against a hapless Tigers team today, you can't expect the other team to be happy about it. Want to keep playing and going for the fences when it is 9-1, then 13-1? Well, we shouldn't be whining when the other teams keeps playing, too.
It wasn't dirty. It was a baseball play you see almost every day, 15-1 score or not.
I'm loving this run, and this offense, as much as anyone, but no one should expect the Tigers, or anyone else, to just roll over when the Jays decide to run up the score and pad their stats.
I'm as big a Jays fan as anyone, but I don't understand this line of thinking (not just you, Buck and Pat were going on about it as well).
If the Jays want to run up a 9-1 score to 15-1 against a hapless Tigers team today, you can't expect the other team to be happy about it. Want to keep playing and going for the fences when it is 9-1, then 13-1? Well, we shouldn't be whining when the other team keeps playing, too.
It wasn't dirty. It was a baseball play you see almost every day, 15-1 score or not.
I'm loving this run, and this offense, as much as anyone, but no one should expect the Tigers, or anyone else, to just roll over when the Jays decide to run up the score and pad their stats.
You don't see the difference between hitting the ball and taking out a guys legs in a 15-1 game ? One will hurt your ego the other can end a season.
Not their fault the pitching rolled over and gifted them pitches.
It's not Gose's fault everyone expects him to stop playing and roll over for a double play in a 15-1 game, either.
Zaun said it best yesterday. He said he can't believe pitchers don't throw inside, or send a message, when the Jays offense gets rolling.
Gose did that today, only he wasn't on the mound when he did it.
I think you overestimate the ability of a batter to purposely hit into an out. Their muscle memory is trained to try and deliver hits. And even then half the time I'm pretty sure they aren't sure where they're going to hit the ball. They see the ball and swing. Where it goes is part skill and part luck.
And they're not just going to stand there like a statue and take 3 strikes.
I am sure the Jays are shaking in their boots after they saw what Gose did.
Of course not. So it not in a baserunner's DNA to slide to avoid a double play, no matter what the score is?
We can't have a double-standard.
Well, no, it's not in a baserunner's DNA to try and injure somebody on every DP attempt.
Which isn't what he did.
if it happens late in a 2-1 game, this isn't even a conversation.
I didnt actually see the slide but if it really was bad they should hit him tomorrow. Pretty skumbag thing to do