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The Jays head to Minnesota to take on the Twins



Friday May 13, 8:10pm: R. Romero (2-4, 4.04) vs C. Pavano (2-4, 6.64)

Saturday May 14, 4:10pm: J. Reyes (0-3, 5.00) vs N. Blackburn (2-4, 3.95)

Sunday May 15, 2:10pm: B. Morrow (1-2, 4.71) vs B. Duensing (2-2, 3.32)

All games for TV on Sportsnet and Radio on the Fan590

Lind may be back.

I see us taking 2 out of 3 here. Hopefully Romero has a good outing.

You could argue the Jays have the pitching advantage in each of those games, with the way Pavano is going right now.

Never underestimate how bad Reyes can be, Randle, you know that.

Hopefully this is the series that ignites E5's bat.. he went off for what, 5 HR's in last season's series?

CXT's PREDIK-SHUNZ

3 game **** sweep. Don't like any of the pitchers Minnesota is sending to the bump... and I also don't like Yo-Yo Reyes, but unbelievably, I like Pavano even less.

Wonder how the Canadian rookie will do. Tosoni or whatever is name is. Morneau actually had a decent game today too, maybe he starts to turn it around soon, he's too good to be this bad.

STILL - 3 game sweep. 1 hail delay. 1 Gardenhire ejection. E5 will go yard.

Dave

Quit posting in newb threads and come play Quake

- Tal

newb threads?

Has anyone been listening to Bob Mccown, hes been going off on the last 2 days about how Arencibia isnt good defensively. Has anyone else noticed this or is he just saying this to stir up trouble.

Didnt wanna start my own topic for this so just wrote it here...

DonVitoMan wrote:Has anyone been listening to Bob Mccown, hes been going off on the last 2 days about how Arencibia isnt good defensively. Has anyone else noticed this or is he just saying this to stir up trouble.

Didnt wanna start my own topic for this so just wrote it here...

He's been going on about how Escobar is a baby cause he left the game after being hit on the ankle/shin and he isn't professional because he missed one bunt sign.

McCown is an idiot.

funny you brought that up, i listened to PTS for the first time in a long time, and they talked about that with Shi Davidi..

The Twins can't hit, not even a tiny little bit. 1174ABs for a .296/.325/.622 obp/slg/ops line. There's Jason Kubel (.947 OPS) and 10ABs of a day-to-day Trevor Plouffe (1.162 OPS) and that's really it. Span's the only other active guy with an OPS over .700 and among the many injured only Thome had an above .600 OPS.

Granted with all the injuries very few guys have even the 100 ABs to begin to use these types of numbers (not saying they're valid to judge a player's actual performance even then, but I really shouldn't use them before that), but a team OBP under .300 through 35 games is terribad. If Reyes stinks it up against these massive bags of suck, it'll really finally and truly be time to go another route, even for his ardent supporters. These guys make MacDonald/Cooper/Davis trio that ended the no-no look like heart of the order candidates. Okay, not quite that bad, but that team is one massive collection of slump.

I just think hes making a bigger deal of it than it really is.

Yes, McCown is an idiot. Arencibia has been a shade above league-average against base-stealers, fairly good at blocking the plate and receiving relays, and somewhat poor at blocking pitches. He isn't a stellar defender, but neither is he particularly poor.

And he's doubly idiotic concerning Escobar. Heh, if I saw a third base coach calling for a squeeze bunt in the 4th inning of a game where we were pounding the starting pitcher, I'd probably ignore it out of principle.

DonVitoMan wrote:I just think hes making a bigger deal of it than it really is.

yep he does this quite often. he's sees a misplay and he'll go on and on about it. i don't think he actually sits in front of his tv and watches games in their entirety, so his judgement is based on whatever happens in the few minutes he does watch. too many times does bob come off like he has no idea what he's talking about, but for some reason i still listen to him, pretty much everyday.

edit* it doesn't make him less of an idiot regarding baseball analysis, but fwiw he did apologize today for coming off like he thinks arencibia sucks - which he said he does not.

Tonights lineup:

Lind is back but Rivera is playing 1B???

Escobar SS
Patterson LF
Bautista RF
Lind DH
Hill 2B
Rivera 1B
Arencibia C
Encarnacion 3B
Davis CF

EDIT: but I've also seen this lineup posted...so we will wait and see..I will update again if I hear more;

Escobar SS
Patterson LF
Bautista RF
Rivera DH
Hill 2B
Arencibia C
Encarnacion 1B
McDonald 3B
Davis CF

i'm pretty sure it's the 2nd line-up. just heard on the fan that adam lind says he needs another day off to rest the back.

chocolateSensi wrote:i'm pretty sure it's the 2nd line-up. just heard on the fan that adam lind says he needs another day off to rest the back.

yep...2nd lineup posted is now confirmed...so we don't have to watch Rivera at 1B...yet

Token Hmmm....