Pace of Play changes

So a bunch of pace of play changes were introduced on Monday. David Adler has a summary here. Anthony Castrovince wrote a fact sheet here. Joanna pointed to an interesting perspective on the changes here.

Tulo has a plan.

"If I want the pitcher out of there, I can still do it, right? I can make my own pitching changes so I kind of like that. I don't have to wait for the pitching coach to come out and give him the hook when I thought the guy should have been out of there two hitters ago."

What are your thoughts?

Link Dump June 8th Edition

I wish I was smart enough to know what the hell an RSS feed was so I could use one but I ain't, so I peruse the web for stories about the Jays. When I find something interesting. I like to give credit where credit is due, and so MK doesn't get sued. Such is the case with story of the ticket gouging by the Mariners upcoming setto with the Jays. Via Stoeten, in his Daily? Duce, which Links a story from The News Tribune, that says the ticket prices for the Jays series have been dynamically priced over double the price of the previous series against the Twins. Lower bowl for the twinkies-$29-75, for the Jays-$66-175. The Tribune article further links a CBC piece, which says Canadian fans aren't too happy about the ticket gouging. While listening to the Fan590, which I'm not going to link because I'm linked out and my head is spinning ( sorta like the bedspins from my younger years but I digress), it was suggested that the Seattle ball club and their fans were not pleased about their home game becoming a Jays home game. So much so, that it's been alleged that Seattle's front office has been less accommodating to the Sportsnet media types. C'est la vie, you fucking pinheads. I betcha the local economy is just tickled at the thought of less cash in their pocket from their northern neighbours. ( Is this sarcasm font working? )

Link Dump

One of the topics of conversation yesterday was about Grilli and whether it is time to cut bait and bring in somebody else from within the system. In an opinionated post at BBB ( in my opinion), Matt Gross does give food for thought and according to the poll in the same piece, it appears that the majority of voters think that Grilli should be DFA'd.

Jith. Link dump

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Man I'm good.

Home Opening Day Link dump.

Before today's home opener, some links to amuse and inform.

Back to baseball, What's Happening.

Hint: Rerun

People are nervous and angry and scared over recent events. The Jays were eliminated in the ACLS and Cubs won the World Series. It's a tops-turvy world we live in and it's full of unsuspected surprises. Never get out of the boat, another season's just around the corner, so let's see what's happening.

It's all over! And it's been a hell of a ride.

So it's been quite a year and it's all over!( this time for realises ).

Let's take a little look back before we look forward.

Wednesday: Jays News and Views.

  Stoeten at BJN posts about the TV ratings for Sunday's game 3 of the ALDS. Aaaand they're massive. 4.73 million average audience, a peak of 7.03 million and 10 million watching at some point of the broadcast. That's a lot of eyes, over a quarter of the country, reminiscent of September 2015 when Sportsnet was the number 2 network in Canada, largely because of your Blue Jays. I'm not sure if I agree, that this might increase the chances that Edwin or Jose gets signed by the Jays, but you can be damn sure that payroll won't be going down in 2017. Laurence would be shipping Eddie Rogers to Vodafone if that happened. It also suggests that it'd be hard for the Jays to be considered a "small market team" by anyone. No more 31 million dollar handouts from MLB.

  Joanna writes about Clevelands racist/clown mascot at Hum and Chuck. She links Pedro doing this. Un-fucking-believable. In her piece we find out why Jerry Howarth won't use Cleveland's nickname and how Jamie Campbell will follow suit. I'm not one to get into the politics of everything but even I agree, the time for this shit to die, is long over due. Digging the Viking video with the throat singing at the end of her post. Head over and give it a look.

 Officially, Estrada has been named Game 1 starter. Unofficially, according to a CP article at Sportsnet, Stroman game 2, Happ Game 3,Dickey game 4, errr, Sanchez game 4. Devon Travis is expected to be ready to go for game 1 and Liriano available on Saturday, after his league mandated, concussion protocol, DL time has elapsed. Going to be fun with guessing the playoff roster. Will Pompey be on it? Will Uncle Loupy's wild ride be replaced by Liriano? Will the cold in Cleveland cause for a Gibby's Mumu sighting? Curious times need answers.

  Interesting tidbit from the Sun article about Pompey at the end of the page.
"Behind the Chicago Cubs’ 57 victories at Wrigley Field, the Indians tied the Los Angeles Dodgers and Rangers for the second-most home wins in baseball this season with 53. Cleveland held an impressive plus-105 run differential at Progressive Field, but were minus-four on the road. The Blue Jays were plus-38 at the Rogers Centre and an impressive plus-55 away from home."

  CBS has 3 writers picking Cleveland taking the series, with 2 taking the Jays. Defense should be prominent during the series, with the two top run prevention teams in the AL battling it out. How do you defend a homerun anyways? Unleash the Kraken. Defends this, ya fucking racists.

  While we're at it, what does your ALCS playoff roster look like?

 With the Jays on fire so far in October, let's hope none of them wanders down to the Cuyahoga River.