Jim Cowan

I agree, but Hinch arrived at the bottom of the 9th with the game in his hip pocket, if either Foley or Lange, especially Lange, had gone 2 innings. Wins are too scarce to just piss them away and then let Hinch off the hook.

I'm not letting Hinch off the hook. That was an easily winnable game.

I blame you

Good job Baddoo, last year he might have swung at those

Did Javy just do some baserunning?

Precisely

Last year we were very pleased with the good bullpen management.

Wingenter threw more pitches than Foley or Lange

Ricky Vaughn

And a 4 pitch walk. Winning run at the plate

Jays get the leadoff man on base.

16 games cuz then you just multiply by 10 to find out exactly how everyone will perform for the entire season.

I'm surprised...I like the demonstration that if you play well you will get promoted, but this is a little quicker than I might have done it.

I like Paredes and I hope he does well, but let's not send him to Cooperstown just yet. Last year other than an impossible 11 game streak in which he hit 8 home runs his results were pretty much exactly the same as his Tigers performance. He's off to a decent start this year but I would wait to see a full season of good performance. Count me among those who were pleasantly surprised that the Tigers got Meadows for him.

Mud Hens is definitely the way to go, with the caveat that you've never heard of any of their pitchers. I'm not sure that even their family members have ever heard of them.

That's what happens when you take a piss off your front porch, and stop to talk to your neiighbours while you were tapping off.

Nice to get the KO on Manoah.

Without looking it up I am trying to think of some '77 Blue Jays. I live within their media blitz zone so I should be able to get a few. Doug Ault, Alvis Woods,...Ron Fairly? Bob Bailor was taken in the expansion draft but they might have traded him. Rick Bosetti, Roy Howell, Otto Velez were there in the early years, maybe not the first year. Barry Bonnell?

I'd like Nevin to stay in Toledo for a while. We know that he isn't going to keep hitting .600 but let's give him a couple of more 10 game blocks and see if he can stay in the high .800 OPS territory for each of those.

Ha ha I remember reading a review at the time, Playboy probably, wondering what Helen Mirren was doing "slumming" in Caligula.

I want a R/R first baseman who bats 7th for his high school team.

Oh no question Redford was the guy to do the combat hero scenes, he would have been wasted as a general.

Hey speaking of A Bridge Too Far, in what bizarro army is Ryan O'Neal a general??? While Robert Redford is a major?

That's great to hear about your daughter.

David Brooks wrote a good piece within the last couple of months about watching a lifelong friend go through it later in life, and the friend did not survive it, and after a while Brooks realized that he was completely unequipped to be of any use to his friend. The words that initially he had thought were "supportive" or "encouraging" just demonstrated how little he had understood about the disease. He eventually decided that the best thing he could do was just listen.