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Seems like you are saying the Jays got him back - that is good news. I would say excellent news except that R.A. Dickey comes with his own personal catcher, the .148 (or whatever) hitting Josh Thole - who is also slow and not particularly good defensively - but he is part of the delightful Dickey package - along with a 4.80 ERA - so that would mean three catchers - which would be weird - and is not exactly ideal - but whatever, Navarro would be good to have.

We have been fretting all year about the serious trouble we would be in if Russ Martin gets hurt. We know and like Navarro around here. Glad to have him.

I wonder if it is too late in the year to start working on catching the knuckleball. That would be a helluvan idea.
 
I don't know about Dickey on the playoff roster - if the Jays make it. I would hope not, but he was on it last year.

In fact I believe he was pitching that game that the Jays were leading 7-2 when John Gibbons decided to bring David Price in out of the bullpen and completely screw up the normal routines of his entire career.

But hey, it was 7-2 - time to panic.

But I'm not bitter.



The six man rotation was of course a source of hysteria with the masses. If any starter has a bad game, it is no longer because he just happened to have a bad game - now it's because he had too much rest.

:endoftheworld:

Naw, I'm exaggerating. There are a few idiots who are always striving for "hot takes" in every situation but for the most part, it is a pretty sane fanbase. As far as the rotation, Aaron Sanchez has now been sent to Single-A Dunedin with the plan of him takin' 'er easy for awhile - and being a starter in the post-season.

If there is a post-season.
 
First place Jays take game 1 in BALT and looked good doing it. Marco Estrada in excellent form after a few shaky starts. MVP Donaldson homered again and now has 6 in the last 5 games.

A lot of games against the AL East upcoming. Time to show what we're made of.

Hopefully goodness.
 
I recently rewatched the movie Inception and something in it relates to the Blue Jays month of September for me.

Inception had the whole thing with different levels of dreams - dreams within dreams and whatnot - and time passes at different rates at the different levels. So in the time it takes a van to plummet off a bridge and hit the water, years have actually passed from another perspective.

That's what the Blue Jays September feels like to me. I am at some deep dream level where time seems to be passing normally - meanwhile the Blue Jays are apparently doing a bellyflop which lasts the whole month.
 
10 frikkin' games left. That's it.

Winning the division is looking extremely unlikely at this point - so there's the 2 wildcard spots. Jays lead that but have a pretty damn tough schedule compared to the other teams in the chase. Yankees-Orioles-@Red Sox.

Time to start playing some consistently solid ball for a change.
 
I can confirm: the Blue Jays starters led the league in innings pitched this year - while not having a complete game. It's the first time in the history of the world that has ever happened. Our uber-annoying talking heads, Buck Martinez and Past Tabler, got gabbing about that at one point.

Adding: records were set this year for all of major league baseball for total strikeouts and home runs.
 
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