[IST] ALDS: TOR vs TEX

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Game 1 (Today, 3:30pm ET) at the Steve J. Rogers Center



TV: FS1
Legit stream: http://www.foxsports.com/foxsportsgo/

Toronto Line-up

Edited October 8, 2015 by Guest

[TransMonk]

I don't really care, but I think the Jays are the best team in the AL (with my limited knowledge of the junior circuit), so I guess I look for them to succeed.

After the Cardinals, are the Jays the team left that has won a championship most recently?

What a joy to be in the meat of the post-season without the Red Sox, Giants and Yankees in attendance! Now the Cards should go fuck themselves too and give someone else a chance.

[Benjamin Grimm]

TransMonk wrote: After the Cardinals, are the Jays the team left that has won a championship most recently?

I assume you're talking World Championship, and not league pennant.

Let's see: Mets, 1986. Cardinals, 2011. Cubs, 1908. Dodgers, 1988. Blue Jays, 1993. Astros, never. Rangers, never. Royals, 1980.

Unless it's St. Louis, somebody's going to end a lengthy dry spell.

[Gwreck]

Royals are 1985, not 1980 (they lost to Philadelphia that year), but of course the point holds.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gwreck wrote: Royals are 1985, not 1980, but of course the point holds.

Oops, right. They lost to the Phillies in 1980, beat the Cardinals in 1985.

[Ceetar]

if you're gonna abbreviate the poll like that, there is only one choice.

I have an obvious affinity for AL East teams that the Yanks, enemy of my enemy and all that jazz.

[Gwreck]

Self interested standpoint: Mets probably would do better against the Rangers in a hypothetical World Series matchup. Hence I would root for them.

Really though: I don't care all that much. I hold no particular animosity or particular favor towards either team, or their fanbase, or any particular players (except maybe Dickey).

[TransMonk]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I assume you're talking World Championship, and not league pennant.

You got it. Yup.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Self interested standpoint: Mets probably would do better against the Rangers in a hypothetical World Series matchup. Hence I would root for them.

My self interested standpoint is i don't want to travel back-and-forth to Dallas to watch the World Series.

Additional self interested standpoint: The Burger Priest is the second best burger i've tasted in North America (2nd only to the Burger Joint on 56th & 6th) and it's only available in the Greater Toronto Area.

[Frayed Knot]

Looking at that Toronto (and, remember, you don't pronounce the second t) lineup:
On the team one year ago?
Revere - Nope
Donaldson - Nope
Tulowitski - Nope
Smoak - Nope
Martin - Nope
Goins & Pillar - yes, although in backup roles
Price - Nope

So that essentially leaves the two big boys in the middle there - Encarnacion & Bautista - as leftovers from 2014.
It seems like the Jays had their big makeover 2 or 3 years back (the Dickey deal, the big one with the Marlins) but it's really been more like one long continuous shuffle.

[Ceetar]

Self interested standpoint: Mets probably would do better against the Rangers in a hypothetical World Series matchup. Hence I would root for them. My self interested standpoint is i don't want to travel back-and-forth to Dallas to watch the World Series. Additional self interested standpoint: The Burger Priest is the second best burger i've tasted in North America (2nd only to the Burger Joint on 56th & 6th) and it's only available in the Greater Toronto Area.

take me with you, it'll be fun.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Self interested standpoint: Mets probably would do better against the Rangers in a hypothetical World Series matchup. Hence I would root for them. My self interested standpoint is i don't want to travel back-and-forth to Dallas to watch the World Series. Additional self interested standpoint: The Burger Priest is the second best burger i've tasted in North America (2nd only to the Burger Joint on 56th & 6th) and it's only available in the Greater Toronto Area. take me with you, it'll be fun.

We'll party Josh Hamilton style!
(I was there in June, it's a crazy town)

TEXAS
DeShields, CF
Choo, RF
Beltre, 3B
Fielder, DH
Napoli, 1B
Hamilton, J, LF
Andrus, SS
Odor, 2B
Chirinos, C

Gallardo, RHP

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

Baustita boofs one to cut the lead to 4-3

What a game ..... I <3 playoff baseball!

[Zvon]

5-3 Texas after 8. I can't enjoy a day game on TV as much if the sky isn't available.

[Zvon]

Rangers take game one. I voted I don't give a shit but I still watched an hour of this game. I need to get a life.

[Frayed Knot]

This game was starting to have a body count.
Donaldson & Bautista on the Toronto side and Beltre for Texas all walked off the field mid-game with some assorted owwie or another.
Beltre's (back) looked most serious. Bautista was reported as a tight hammy while Donaldson took a knee to the cranium and needed to be checked out.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm kind of pissed off that that scumbag Michael Kay was yapping on the radio and I couldn't find the broadcast of this game. WTF? Anyone know where these games are on the radio?

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm kind of pissed off that that scumbag Michael Kay was yapping on the radio and I couldn't find the broadcast of this game. WTF? Anyone know where these games are on the radio?

likewise, I thought ESPN had them all.

I stopped looking after that though, this is why I typically just stream it through my phone.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Why do they jump through hoops to line up regionally prime
time games and stick this one where they did?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Are Houston and Kansas City a bigger combined market than Toronto and Dallas/Fort Worth? I remember when postseason games were on broadcast networks, they didn't like having Toronto in the playoffs (I think I'm recalling 1985 here) because the networks weren't selling advertising time in Canada. I don't know, but I doubt that that's still a factor.

[MFS62]

Blue Jays.
There's gonna' be an order of poutine VS a bagel and lox wager with my buddy in Tarana over a Mets/ Jays World Series.

Later

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Are Houston and Kansas City a bigger combined market than Toronto and Dallas/Fort Worth? I remember when postseason games were on broadcast networks, they didn't like having Toronto in the playoffs (I think I'm recalling 1985 here) because the networks weren't selling advertising time in Canada. I don't know, but I doubt that that's still a factor.

Houston is a surprisingly large city -- fourth largest in the country and nipping at Chicago's heels. That's partially to it being really spread out. Sadly, I suspect 85 percent of the city is football obsessed.

San Antonio is actually larger than Dallas -- and I would never have guessed that until I saw the list while searching for Houston's population.

[Edgy MD]

I like the Ranger uniforms far more than the Blue Jays, and that's usually what I go for in American League match ups. But if I can't root for John Gibbons and R.A. Dickey and Jos� Reyes, who can I root for?

Wait, a minute... what?!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Frayed Knot wrote: (and, remember, you don't pronounce the second t)

That's how the Kings made this line rhyme:

Hey little Donna,
Still wanna
You said to ring you up if I was in Toronto

I think this is the greatest Canadian export since maple syrup:

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[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Interesting trivia: Toronto is the 30th and last team to appear in a Divisional Series.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Really? I would never have guessed that.

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Interesting trivia: Toronto is the 30th and last team to appear in a Divisional Series.

last for now anyway.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm kind of pissed off that that scumbag Michael Kay was yapping on the radio and I couldn't find the broadcast of this game. WTF? Anyone know where these games are on the radio? likewise, I thought ESPN had them all. I stopped looking after that though, this is why I typically just stream it through my phone.

Streeaming now on the desktop but still pissed off they don;t have it on the real radio in New York. Even worse, it's Berman and Sutcliffe.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Listening to the Toronto stream on the MLB At Bat app.

Apparently the annoying "croissanwich" ads are forced into all MLB broadcasts.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Listening to the Toronto stream on the MLB At Bat app. Apparently the annoying "croissanwich" ads are forced into all MLB broadcasts.

Does that cost $$?