I’ll accept the other one, although reluctantly, as it’s really a matter of choice/style, I think.

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MW: I think it’s the possessive, so it needs an apostrophe.

In retrospect, I should have also used “weigh” instead of “way”, and “plane” instead of “plain”.

But I must confess I can only count 9 mistakes (Ive, pouring, everythings, they’re, site, acceptions, their, there, write) — where are the other two? (too?)

MW: Thank the Lord. It should have been Blue Jays’ statistics - you missed an apostrophe, and the “a” before very few exceptions was unnecessary.

Stewart let a guy go from first to third on a single to left, which was hit directly at Stewart. This happened during the Friday night game at Kansas City.

Is that sort of lackluster play acceptable? This guy doesn’t seem to care about playing the outfield.

MW: This would have been a very legitimate question if you hadn’t thrown that last line in. It was brutal that Mark Teahen went first to third on the hard single to left in the 8th, but Stewart (who is very aware of his limitations as a thrower) didn’t throw to third because he wanted to make sure Billy Butler, who was the go-ahead run at the time, stayed at first base to both keep the double play in order and keep the tying run out of scoring position. Chances are Stewart wasn’t going to throw Teahen out, and chances are that if he’d tried, the go-ahead run moves to second.

It was a very smart play, made by a guy who knows enough not to attempt something he probably can’t do. But yeah, he just doesn’t care about playing the outfield.

Also watching Stewart early in the season he’s looked terrible. We knew how bad his defense was but he’s looked worse than Thomas at the plate. It’s interesting how Billy Beane seems like an amazing GM for finding bargain players who produce while JP looks terrible by signing those same bargain players after Beane and not having them pan out at all. I know it’s early to judge Stewart, but I’m really frustrated watching him out there when it should be Lind.

MW: You sure you wrote this without waiting for the new post to come up?

But,

Do Ball players get paid bi-weekly ? or monthly ? Or is it all at once at the beginning of the season ?

It’s prob the magnitude of the money they are paid but i just can’t comphrend how it is done.

MW: 1st and 15th of every month.

Sure the Jays couldn’t beat the Royals tonight, but with Marcum, oh man ! Im gonna say he pitches a complete game with 10 K’s. Call me crazy, or, just call me crazy.

And call it a coincidence, but tommorrow Gibbons will look like a great manager. Losing, combined with poor hitting and the wind blowing in from the east seems to make Gibbons look bad.
Odd …

Keep up the Good work Mike

The one discussion tonight with the caller where you said “it’s just luck” was amazing. It should be required listening for every baseball fan. (if not sports fan)

I think it’s just human nature to think that there is some “reason” for everything. When there are runners in scoring position and a hitter makes contact with the ball there is probably 1/16th of an inch difference in contact between a fly ball and a ball that lands in front of the OF.

The just are just going through a huge statistical outlier where they are on the wrong side of that 1/16th of an inch time after time.

Either that or…….they don’t have enough urgency, aren’t trying hard enough, aren’t gritty enough, or don’t have the right team chemistry.

MW: Yeah, definitely one or the other.

You’ve reiterated that Johnny Mac should be on defense when we have the lead. So where was Carlson? I mean, the guy is our only shut-down reliever we have right now. With Mac and Carlson in, the jays would have won 4-2, and the last innings would not only have been 1-2-3. but Carlson would have struck out at least half those batters.

So why isn’t he pitching every night? How many leads have the Blue Jays blown by putting Downs, Frasor, Tallet, Accardo into the game. I know he’s a just a kid, but it seems that he’s been pitching better than the rest of them combined. So why don’t we see him more?

MW: We’ve seen him plenty, more than I thought we would. I have to tell you, had the ‘pen come in to start the 8th and lost it, there’d be just as much whining coming from people who’d be saying that Gibbons was an idiot for not sending A.J. back out there - why does he always pull his starters so early?????

I was thinking to myself after Rolen’s hit….I bet Gibbons leaves Burnett in for the 8th.

I guess with Ryan pitching yesterday and Accardo scuffling, it wasn’t a bad decision.

Still, to leave Burnett in as long as he did was terrible in my opinion. He’s struggled all year, finally has a good outing, so why not get him out of there?

I know it would be a mute point if Eckstein doesn’t drop the ball, but it’s little things like that which really annoy me about Gibbons.

Interesting interview with the scrappy one today. I guess he must have done something to anger god. That’s the only possible explanation for the two errors.

MW: Moot point, actually. And yeah, it doesn’t matter about A.J. going back out for the 8th if Eckstein catches that ball, or McDonald, who should have been in there. But I have no problem at all with Burnett going back out for the 8th. He’d been pitching very well, pitch count was low, no B.J. Ryan.

MW: Yeah, because NFL scouting is such an exact science. Don’t get me started.