Baseball fever! Catch that thing! (Obviously, fresh thread is required.)
Minnesota lost to Seattle, so the Jays sit 1 game off the second Wild Card. So do the Orioles, as David Price's former team coughed up a 6-1 lead. And the Yankees beat the White Sox senseless, so they maintain their 6 game division lead over Baltimore and Toronto.
It's Ventura vs Buehrle, and the new guys may be here in time.
In light of the week that we've just lived through, I feel like revisiting a paragraph about the GM from last year's Report Card. I do love the sound of my own voice, as you all surely know by now:
... going for it is risky as all hell. It can blow up in your face, and haunt you for the Rest of Your Days. Ask any Expos fan about Dave Dombrowski and Mark Langston. And when you think about it, 366 home runs from a second baseman is an awful lot to give up for 7 September starts. If the Jays hadn't won in 1992, watching Jeff Kent's career unfold would have been almost 20 years of pain and remorse. But even so, at some point, you have to go for it or there's simply no point to being in the game at all... Maybe Anthopoulos simply isn't as hungry, as desperate for a title, as Gillick was in 1992. Maybe this really wasn't the time. Maybe the price this time really was too damn high. Maybe Anthopoulos thought paying that kind of price was wasted on this year's team (which is not something he could say out loud, of course.) We can't actually know whether he's been cunningly patient or overly cautious or whatever. But at some point that price will have to be paid. And then... we'll see what's what.
Well. Here we go.
Minnesota lost to Seattle, so the Jays sit 1 game off the second Wild Card. So do the Orioles, as David Price's former team coughed up a 6-1 lead. And the Yankees beat the White Sox senseless, so they maintain their 6 game division lead over Baltimore and Toronto.
It's Ventura vs Buehrle, and the new guys may be here in time.
In light of the week that we've just lived through, I feel like revisiting a paragraph about the GM from last year's Report Card. I do love the sound of my own voice, as you all surely know by now:
... going for it is risky as all hell. It can blow up in your face, and haunt you for the Rest of Your Days. Ask any Expos fan about Dave Dombrowski and Mark Langston. And when you think about it, 366 home runs from a second baseman is an awful lot to give up for 7 September starts. If the Jays hadn't won in 1992, watching Jeff Kent's career unfold would have been almost 20 years of pain and remorse. But even so, at some point, you have to go for it or there's simply no point to being in the game at all... Maybe Anthopoulos simply isn't as hungry, as desperate for a title, as Gillick was in 1992. Maybe this really wasn't the time. Maybe the price this time really was too damn high. Maybe Anthopoulos thought paying that kind of price was wasted on this year's team (which is not something he could say out loud, of course.) We can't actually know whether he's been cunningly patient or overly cautious or whatever. But at some point that price will have to be paid. And then... we'll see what's what.
Well. Here we go.
