Fire Dancing
"Eliminate Overbay"Cecil danced in and out of the fire last night. And then Lyle Overbay got in the damn fire, rolled in it and ran around the infield until everything was destroyed.
"Hitting-wise, you're going to fail, but the defensive part – I don't like it. It's going to bother me. ... It was an easy play that wasn't executed and in turn cost us the game."
Yeah...as long as it's going to bother you, Lyle, I guess we're cool. Maybe a key hit tonight or something balances things up.
Cecil racked up some quality innings and strikeouts, and blame an unusually inaccurate fastball for his fire dance. But I think he looked pretty good, but maybe if the Indians didn't suck so hard, the game would've been out of control much, much earlier.
Kinda like I've been saying, but with more detail and more insight...
Keith Law...
Kay asks why the Jays are even thinking about letting Ricciardi, who’s days appear to be numbered, make this deal:
“I’ve raised this question before—he’s essentially moving on to his third philosophy, his third strategy for the team. There was cut payroll, try to compete on the cheap, then there was, we’ve got money, we’re going to go out and spend on marquee free agents and compete with the big boys, now, oh we’re going to rebuild again. Whoa, wait a minute—how many different strategies does any GM get? I’m not talking about Ricciardi—anywhere across baseball, how many GMs are allowed to change strategies three times and retain their jobs? Very, very few—especially one who has never made the playoffs, which is partially a function of the division, but look… he’s never made the playoffs. … To me, I think that excuse is starting to wear really thin up there. A lot of people up there, even in management with the Blue Jays, were frustrated with seeing the Rays make better trades, focus on defence, and shoot right past the Blue Jays in the standings.”
“The whole Moneyball thing about trying to do it on the cheap, the first two years I was there, three years, we tried to do it—you know what? You can’t compete in this division just trying to find players off the scrap heap—trying to find those hidden gems. You’ve got to hit in the draft, you’ve got to develop players better, you’ve got to spend some money internationally, and frankly that’s how Tampa Bay did it. They’re not doing it on a huge payroll, but they’ve been a player development machine—whereas in Toronto we were really just constantly trying to scrap for guys, like I said, off waivers, off the scrap heap, cheap free agent signings—that’s just not the way to build a championship ballclub. When the Blue Jays went out and started to spend some money, frankly, I think everything got worse. They got a few more wins, but they ended up spending a significant amount of money on which they just did not get an adequate return.”
Yeah...word up.
"Hitting-wise, you're going to fail, but the defensive part – I don't like it. It's going to bother me. ... It was an easy play that wasn't executed and in turn cost us the game."
Yeah...as long as it's going to bother you, Lyle, I guess we're cool. Maybe a key hit tonight or something balances things up.
Cecil racked up some quality innings and strikeouts, and blame an unusually inaccurate fastball for his fire dance. But I think he looked pretty good, but maybe if the Indians didn't suck so hard, the game would've been out of control much, much earlier.
Kinda like I've been saying, but with more detail and more insight...
Keith Law...
Kay asks why the Jays are even thinking about letting Ricciardi, who’s days appear to be numbered, make this deal:
“I’ve raised this question before—he’s essentially moving on to his third philosophy, his third strategy for the team. There was cut payroll, try to compete on the cheap, then there was, we’ve got money, we’re going to go out and spend on marquee free agents and compete with the big boys, now, oh we’re going to rebuild again. Whoa, wait a minute—how many different strategies does any GM get? I’m not talking about Ricciardi—anywhere across baseball, how many GMs are allowed to change strategies three times and retain their jobs? Very, very few—especially one who has never made the playoffs, which is partially a function of the division, but look… he’s never made the playoffs. … To me, I think that excuse is starting to wear really thin up there. A lot of people up there, even in management with the Blue Jays, were frustrated with seeing the Rays make better trades, focus on defence, and shoot right past the Blue Jays in the standings.”
“The whole Moneyball thing about trying to do it on the cheap, the first two years I was there, three years, we tried to do it—you know what? You can’t compete in this division just trying to find players off the scrap heap—trying to find those hidden gems. You’ve got to hit in the draft, you’ve got to develop players better, you’ve got to spend some money internationally, and frankly that’s how Tampa Bay did it. They’re not doing it on a huge payroll, but they’ve been a player development machine—whereas in Toronto we were really just constantly trying to scrap for guys, like I said, off waivers, off the scrap heap, cheap free agent signings—that’s just not the way to build a championship ballclub. When the Blue Jays went out and started to spend some money, frankly, I think everything got worse. They got a few more wins, but they ended up spending a significant amount of money on which they just did not get an adequate return.”
Yeah...word up.