Your 2008 Toronto Blue Jays!

[SPTO]

You should read Wilner's blog. The folks there are a tad more intelligent and Wilner actually adds his comments to your posts as well.

I don't know what will happen. I have a feeling though that someone will be fired at some point. There's way too much heat on the Jays front office now. They can't sit idly by and let this team turn to crap on a stick.

[bad_philanthropy]

Man, I didn't realize Vernon was leading the team in HR's and RBI's, I think that says it all about this team.

[SPTO]

I"m not watching the game but man....5-0 last I checked. Me thinks Gibby is going to be the next manager fired even if he doesn't really deserve to be let go.

[sabresfan]

Man, 7-0 and every single run was put up by the home run. Strange, because McGowan was the 4th best pitcher in the AL at not allowing HRs prior to tonight. The offense yet again jsut couldn't get anything going, the best chance we had was when McGowan came up with 2 out and 2 on. I hope today was a wake-up call to JP about how station-to-station is all well and good but a few well-timed homers can really give your team a boost.

Oh well, tomorrow should be some kind of pitchers duel with Marcum and Sheets going at it.

[SPTO]

A couple things before this game starts today:

1. Did anyone listen to Wednesdays with JP last night? The guy sounded pretty dejected as he should be since this team is his creation and it's going down the crapper. I do have to wonder what it is about Adam Dunn that the Jays don't like? JP basically bashed a fan for asking if JP would have interest in Dunn.

2. If Dave Bush beats the Jays today then i'm sorry, something's terribly wrong with this team.

[sabresfan]

Well because 1) I am an eternal optimist and 2) I have nothing better to do, here is my roadmap for getting back into this thing. I am counting today as a loss already because Burnett is pitching like garbage and I don't trust our offense to even score 3.

After today (counting it as a loss) we would be 4 games below .500. I say we need to take the series against the Pirates, this would put us 3 games below. We then must go 5-1 on our following homestand, this would make them 1 game over. Following that is a West Coast road trip in which they must go 3-3 to remain 1 game over. We then have a 6 game in-division homestand against BAL and NYY; on this stand we must go at an absolute worst 4-2 to be 3 games over .500 at the break. At that point we would probably only be 3-5 games out of the wildcard with a series against TB right after the break. Winning that series would get you within legit striking distance with 2.5 months left.

Now, for this to happen the offense needs to get their heads out of their butts and play like we did in May (which at this point is probably unlikely), but IF it happens and we make a run as I laid out, we could be seriously back in this thing. Combine that with a deadline tweak or two and the season would be far from over.

As I typed this we went from losing 3-0 to losing 6-0, so today is really a right off...

[SPTO]

You are WAY too optimistic. Can I have some of what you're smoking?

[sbauer318]

Not watching the game, so I'm wondering how the hell this happened.

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Milwaukee Inning Summary - P. Fielder hit an inside the park home run to deep right