Orioles 5, Blue Jays 6 (11): F This Team.

by Stacey on Sep 22, 2009 10:59 PM EDT in Post-Game Comment 33 comments

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Yeah, pretty much

I mean, I know this team was going to lose this year. But it’s just gotten to be a little disheartening lately. I think I’ve even lost interest in following the postseason this year.

by PhilR8 on Sep 22, 2009 11:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the Jim Johnson implosion is the most upsetting part by far.

I thought he was actually going to be a good young part of our corps. It’s a big setback.

by math_geek on Sep 22, 2009 11:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

middle relievers are a very voliatile commodity

and that’s what JJ is. a middle reliever. don’t give up. he’s still cheap.

by pipkin on Sep 22, 2009 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Throw him back to the 7th/8th inning and I hope he gets back to his old form.

by O'sFan21 on Sep 23, 2009 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i think he will

remember back to when we had that conversation about closers a while ago? pitching in the ninth is a different animal

by twistedlogic on Sep 23, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...let's just hope that this experience hasn't permanently fucked with his confidence.

by O'sFan21 on Sep 23, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

im sure that picture did tho

his ego will be bruised forever

by twistedlogic on Sep 23, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

screw it

it’s football season anyway. I can hate the terps and the skins for a while instead of hating the orioles.

by pipkin on Sep 22, 2009 11:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hi to everyone.

So I’m an Orioles fan from Rochester who decided to come stay in Toronto for a couple of days to, amongst other things, see his boys play live and in person.

Little did I know I would be subjected to seeing these two complete disasters of games. I wanted to kill something after tonight’s game, especially. Specifically, the guy in the picture up there.

(a tip if you ever see a game at Rogers Centre: all the passionate, loud home team fans sit in the left field at the 100 and 200 levels. And they like to heckle the outfielders. It’s funny, unless it’s your boys they’re doing it to.)

Anyone want to come up with obscene, insulting variations on the name “Blue Jays” for me to help me feel better? I forgot how much I could hate that stupid team.

Thanks for reading. It’s nice to be able to talk to people who understand.

by owllover711 on Sep 23, 2009 1:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

insulting variations on the name "Blue Jays"

Ass Clowns
Douche Wipes
Festering Puswounds

True, none of these sound remotely like “Blue Jays”. But they will make you feel better.

"I think my motivation is to see the other guys in the clubhouse. They’re contending for the playoffs, and when I see that it gets into my body. I play like it’s the playoffs too" —Memlo

by zknower on Sep 23, 2009 3:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, that made me LOL. Thanks for that! :-D

by owllover711 on Sep 23, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the standard around here has been Blow Jays. Oh, and please don't forget Cito Cucks!

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Sep 23, 2009 4:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blow Jays. Simple yet effective; why the hell didn’t that occur to me? Thanks.

I was going to take a sign with me that said “Cito STILL Sucks” but I figured even Canadians wouldn’t put up with that much audacity in their own park. I shoulda done it anyway.

by owllover711 on Sep 23, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Damn, HTML fail. Sorry.

by owllover711 on Sep 23, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know...

I’d almost feel better if they stuck Ray in at closer. Our 8th and 9th inning guys just can’t get it done.
What sucks is that Hendrickson pitched a pretty good game getting through 6 with under 70 pitches.

by OsandRoyals on Sep 23, 2009 3:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

why the hell not

put ray ray back there. and JJ back to the 8th, it might go against conventional wisdom but its not like we’ve got anything to lose. and we get to hear sweet dreams again and creep everyone out.

Oh yeah, and replace that picture of JJ with a picture of Baez’s fuckface. the real goat of last night’s loss. He’s long passed memlo to top my list of “can’t wait to see gone”

"you know what the orioles could use right now? a day off." - joe angel

by swilhelmross on Sep 23, 2009 6:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree

And the worst part is we paid him out the ass to throw gopher balls.

by Wieters Wieners on Sep 23, 2009 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

absolutely not

i mean…it cant get any worse, but chris ray is asking to lose every game. at least jj gives us a chance sometimes.

by twistedlogic on Sep 23, 2009 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Terrific job with the pic, Stace!

I would’ve whited out the eyes and then drawn in half-moon versions looking up, but that’s just me.

Anyway, Guts goes for Magic No. 11 again tonight, so…so…what?

Go O’s!

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Sep 23, 2009 4:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking the same thing.

And a perfect example of how a picture is worth a thousand words.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Sep 23, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wouldn't throw Jim Johnson under the bus just yet

I think, and I hope, that he’s still capable of being a 2+ERA middle reliever. Making the switch isn’t for everyone.

They all can’t be George Sherrill, y’know?

by Y Not on Sep 23, 2009 5:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My cube-neighbors resent you, Stacey

This picture made me laugh SO LOUD. Thanks for brightening up the horror.

Yeah, I know, get back to work….

Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08

by 33 on Sep 23, 2009 9:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey no problem

We have to laugh to keep from crying, right? heh.

I thought about doing similar things to a Danys Baez picture, but at least he didn’t HIT A DUDE with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th to force in the tying run.

Earl Weaver would’ve kissed Adam Dunn on the mouth in public. - SC 08/11/08

by Stacey on Sep 23, 2009 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No, he a hit a dude and then gave up a home run.

JJ gave up a walk and two ground balls that should have been outs.

"I hate making excuses. If I suck, then I suck. And I suck. That's the way I'm playing. If you suck, you suck. You have to take responsibility in this game. Right now, that's the way I feel. Yes, I suck." - Jose Guillen/quote of the year

by getxstoked on Sep 23, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't really care about that

I mean I do. I was pissed as hell that Baez hit a dude and gave up a home run. But JJ, with the bases loaded and the tying run on third, HIT A GUY with the first pitch. It’s worse. In a vacuum it’s not worse, but they don’t play baseball in a vacuum.

Earl Weaver would’ve kissed Adam Dunn on the mouth in public. - SC 08/11/08

by Stacey on Sep 23, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

ps hendo for MBP

he tried to make it happen…..and that’s unusual for a hendo start

by twistedlogic on Sep 23, 2009 9:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I still like JJ

I was ready to nominate him for president last year, because he was the only reliever who could sniff dominant.

This year, he troubles me. He lost his control on his splitter (what they’re marking as a CU) and has throw it a lot less this year, and substituting it with a changeup, which is everyone’s favorite pitch these days.

Now, he’s a fastball/changeup guy, with a splitter that he can’t throw for strikes. No wonder he’s getting knocked around the park.

"I feel like I learned more in eight major league starts than I did in three years of college," -- Brian Matusz

by CoachOfEarl on Sep 23, 2009 12:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I still like JJ too

Look at his monthly splits. His July was bad and his Sept has been awful (13.5 ERA). Let’s not throw out his other 4 months of good pitching. He can still be a good closer.

"Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

by birdman on Sep 23, 2009 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess

But I don’t think his splitter was ever one of his go-to pitches. He’s lived and died with a hard sinking fastball. When it sinks and runs he’s nasty, when it flattens out he’s not. He’s also not throwing nearly enough strikes this year.

by O'sFan21 on Sep 23, 2009 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm

What’s the difference between a sinking fastball and a splitter…I thought they were the same. And from what I’ve seen, that’s the pitch that tends to bounce before it gets to the strike zone.

JJ has actually walked less batters this year (3.67 vs 2.84 BB/9) and struck out more (4.98 vs 6.62 K/9).

His problem is that he traded GB for LD.

"I feel like I learned more in eight major league starts than I did in three years of college," -- Brian Matusz

by CoachOfEarl on Sep 23, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A splitter you jam the ball between your middle and index finger and it has a tumbling action and goes straight down. A sinker has more to do with arm angle and regular fastball grip on the seems and it doesn’t tumble, but rather runs down and in to right handed hitters with pretty normal looking, but sort of sideways fastball spin. They are very different pitches.

I didn’t say anything about walking guys – I said he wasn’t throwing enough strikes. Too many 2-0, 2-1, and 3-1 counts. His command is awful this year. The pitch that he keeps bouncing is his sinker.

by O'sFan21 on Sep 23, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs