I can't say the Jays deserve to be better than last in a surprisingly weak AL East but the time is coming to determine whether they have already packed it in for the season:
The question is, on an injury-ravaged team that has fallen into last place in the American League East with a record of 13-20 and is now 91/2 games behind the first-place Red Sox, how many more lacklustre efforts will the Jays' executive have to witness before initiating change?Watching the game last night, the Jay's broadcast unfortunately, I was interested to check out where we will be seating tonight and then I realized, like watching a CFL game broadcast from a city east of Winnipeg, they were not showing the crowd or what claimed to be one.
Comments
Mike - May 10, 2007 10:46 AM
Didn't see it.
Ave attendance is up a bit from last yr.
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=mlb/teams/040/attendance.aspx?team=040
Interesting to see how it goes over the next few months.
WCG - May 10, 2007 10:55 AM
Since I have more commenting leeway than Alan's own mother, I'm shamelessly using it to invitate to all and sundry to come and have Wings with the Wingnut (that's me) on Monday at the Toucan - talk turkey with the NDP candidate, bitch about politics, and in exchange for lively conversation I will keep the wings flowing - at least, the left ones, anyway.
(I don't promise not to attempt to recruit you to volunteer, but I do promise to wait until you have downed at least a pint.)
7:00 on the balcony, all are welcome, bring a friend (...even if they're not a dipper but simply enjoy talking shop with friendly, slightly argumentative folk. =)
gorthos - May 10, 2007 11:55 AM
Thats Baseball right Alan?
Do they show that on CBC?
gr - May 10, 2007 12:30 PM
have a ball, Alan!
Chris Taylor - May 10, 2007 12:38 PM
I think the attendance last night was a mere 21,000 and change; I bailed on TSO tickets to see Daisuke Matsuzaka pitch. That guy is a throwing machine. Might have one bad inning but he'll still (in the long run) win the ballgame for you. In a few years he'd better have a mittful of Cy Young Awards.
On the other hand I think Tomo Ohka and Josh Towers are competing to see who can be the most fan-hated RHP on the roster. What a miserable first two innings. Let's not even discuss that little stunt where Ohka, chasing an easy-out infield dribbler, tried to slap the ball toward 1B and we ended up getting a fielding error out of the deal.
The whole team should get a well-deserved flogging except for Overbay (who gets a pass on his 2 homers) and Alex Rios (for being 4-for-4). And Sal Fasano should be immediately demoted to bat boy and be optioned to ACTRA as "generic biker thug #13". He has a long and promising career as a C-list CanCon bit player ahead of him.
Alan - May 10, 2007 1:18 PM
That hand slappy thing - all he was thinking about was making This Week In Baseball. And Sal Fasano! Holy Moly. Lay off the donuts.
gr - May 11, 2007 6:49 AM
8-zip!