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Jays Release 2010 Schedule

The Toronto Blue Jays will begin the 2010 campaign in the Lone Star State.

The Jays open the season in Arlington Monday, April 5th and Roy Halladay will hopefully be the one to throw the first pitch against the Texas Rangers. The home opener is set for Monday, April 12th at 7:20 p.m. against the Chicago White Sox. I was hoping the drunken shenanigans of recent home openers would have led the team to schedule the game in the afternoon. As a result, expect more fights in the stands and stuff thrown onto the field during Opening Night. There's a stone cold lock of a prediction for you!

As far as interleague goes, the Blue Jays will visit Arizona in May and go to Colorado and San Diego in June. Coming to the Rogers Centre will be St. Louis, San Francisco and Philadelphia. By rights, San Diego should be coming to Toronto as they remain one of the two teams never to play a regular season game at the Dome. Does anyone keep track of these things at the MLB office? Apparently not! The other team never to set foot at the Rogers Centre is the Houston Astros.

As far as holidays go, the Jays will not be home for Victoria Day, Canada Day or the Civic Day holiday as they'll be in Cleveland July 1st. They end the season with a four game series at brand-new Target Field in Minnesota September 30th-October 3rd. I hate it when the Jays get scheduled to begin the year on the road and end it on the road as well. It should be if you start the year on the road, you end it at home and vice versa in the interest of fairness. I much prefer the team would end the season at home in the crazy event they are contending for a playoff spot. The only time the Jays didn't clinch a playoff berth at home was the last time they got to the post-season when they partied at County Stadium in Milwaukee in 1993. The good ol' days!

What do you think of the 2010 schedule, Bauxites?

Posted by #2JBrumfield on Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 03:12 PM EDT.

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smcs - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 03:25 PM EDT (#206124) #

By rights, San Diego should be coming to Toronto as they remain one of the two teams never to play a regular season game in Canada.

How quickly you forget about the Montreal Expos.

#2JBrumfield - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 03:37 PM EDT (#206125) #

How quickly you forget about the Montreal Expos.

Noted and corrected!

Nick Holmes - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 04:46 PM EDT (#206126) #

On a happy note, the Red Sox will be the first visitors to Minnesota's new open-air field on the 12th, 14th & 15th of April. At least they booked a snow day in there.
The Twinkies start with four on the road in LA, followed by the White Sox, with no travel day, & then the home opener. Who do you have to piss off to get that?
The second west-coast trip for the Jays is the 13th to the 18th of August bookended by series with Boston, New York and the Rays. Yikes. Not going to Texas in August is probably the upside.

Dewey - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 05:22 PM EDT (#206127) #

How quickly you forget about the Montreal Expos.

Noted and corrected!

Are you saying that the Expos never played at RC? They did when it was SkyDome, one fine Canada Day. Good game, too, as I recall.

James W - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 07:26 PM EDT (#206128) #

The original comment claimed San Diego had never played in Canada, however they played in Montreal, (hence the "How quickly forgetting Expos" line), which is part of Canada.

Dewey - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 08:32 PM EDT (#206130) #

Thanks, James. I hadn't read it that way. Words.

katman - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 10:14 PM EDT (#206131) #

Given the likely state of the team, I'm not sure the schedule is all that important.

StephenT - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 11:18 PM EDT (#206132) #

The Jays have scored more runs than allowed this year, which normally indicates more wins than losses the following year.

Ozzieball - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 11:22 PM EDT (#206133) #

ramone - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 11:40 PM EDT (#206135) #

Snider said he wanted to pull the ball with more power and he hits two homer runs to right field. The only worry I have is he now has 38 strikeouts in 86 at bats, that seems alarming to me. Is that cause for serious concern?

ramone - Tuesday, September 15 2009 @ 11:49 PM EDT (#206136) #

I should add that the 38 k's in 86 at bats are since his recall according to rotoworld.

Magpie - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 01:46 AM EDT (#206138) #

The Jays have scored more runs than allowed this year, which normally indicates more wins than losses the following year.

To be more precise, it normally indicates more wins than losses this year. But if they do score and allow runs at the same rate next year they're extremely - extremely - unlikely to finish 10 games below .500 again. As I noted a couple weeks back, such an outcome is extraordinarily uncommon (it's happened exactly once before in AL history. In 1918.)

brent - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 03:11 AM EDT (#206139) #

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200909156668859&c_id=tor

The Yankee commenters said that Posada and Carlson clipped each other when only one player was running. They were then blaming Carlson for standing in the wrong spot in Posada's way!

CeeBee - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 07:57 AM EDT (#206141) #

Like Hawk Harrelson, never let the truth get in the way of a good story I suppose.

Thomas - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 08:50 AM EDT (#206142) #

The Yankee commenters said that Posada and Carlson clipped each other when only one player was running. They were then blaming Carlson for standing in the wrong spot in Posada's way!

I figured not even the Yankee announcers would blame Carlson for instigating the fight, considering that Posada took exception to an understandable purpose pitch, ran into Carlson on purpose, was ejected before the brawl and was subsequently blamed for the brouhaha by the home plate umpire.

I was wrong.

jmoney - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 09:27 AM EDT (#206145) #

Posada should be embarrassed. The Yankees have hit how many Jays in the last two series? Including Hill twice and Ruiz in the face. So Carlson threw the ball behind you. Suck it up princess. Oh and Burnett is right. Posada is terrible behind the plate. :)

Plus what was with that bat boy pulling on Barajas protector and shouting at Cito?

Mike Green - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 09:52 AM EDT (#206147) #

Rivalry weekend will be spent playing the Blue Jays' longtime mortal enemies, the Arizona Diamondbacks.
I'm glad it will be settled once and for all whatever disagreement these two parties have between them.

Ever the mediator, I propose the following: Toronto- April 15-October 14, Arizona October 15-April 14. Wear sunscreen and avoid body contact!

Magpie - Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 12:46 PM EDT (#206159) #

Posada should be embarrassed.

Actually it sounds like he is embarrassed ("I don't want my kids to see that.")

I think Posada was upset and frustrated before he even stepped into the batter's box. In the previous half inning, he whiffed on two quite catchable pitches from Melancon (one was scored a WP, one was a passed ball.) He waved at them like he'd been crossed up, but in view of the fact that he didn't immediately run out and talk to his pitcher, it's more likely that he just missed them.

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