Toronto Star: Richard Griffin

• Jays Begin P.R. Campaign against Halladay | 17 h

  When asked by the FAN's Mike Wilner on today's pre-game show what had changed in terms of their first thought of using 2009 as a bridge to being a contender in 2010 and now wanting to trade Roy Halladay as...

• Dustin McGowan: Can you have season-ending surgery -- twice? | 17 h

  This morning in the course of his daily briefing, Jays' manager Cito Gaston casually mentioned knee surgery to starting pitcher Dustin McGowan. There was a pause in the conversation. The club had never announced that the already injured right-hander blew...

• Mail bag | 1 d

  It amazes me the amount of goodwill that Roy Halladay has built up over his time with the Jays. A couple of letters in the mailbag this week are eloquent, passionate tributes to Doc that need little in the way...

• Mail bag | 8 d

  Nowhere in North America is baseball treated with as much reverence as it is in St. Louis. Before the game Tuesday night, baseball clearly demonstrated what it means to the fabric of America with an emotional ceremony honouring 30 ordinary...

• Taped All-Star Anthem irks Canadians | 9 d

  Yes, the pre-game All-Star celebration was all about America, with tributes to volunteer all-stars from the five living presidents on the big electronic scoreboard, the biggest American flag this side of a used car dealership spreading across the outfield held...

Globe on Baseball

• Blair: The Wakefield plan didn't quite pay off | 64 d

  BOSTON - Odd. Two games at Fenway Park. Both briskly paced, including Wednesday night's 29-hit affair. And lots of fly balls which, unfortunately for the Toronto Blue Jays, have stayed in the park. Kevin Millar's home run off knuckleballer Tim Wakefield on Tuesday was an exception, and Blue Jays manager - Follow link to read full post

• MacLeod: Another day at the office | 67 d

  It's picture day, an event that the player's for the most part privately detest. The are required to sit in chairs on a platform set back about 15 feet from a barrier in the outfield at Rogers Centre where ticket holders are allowed to stand and snap away to their heart's content with their cameras - Follow link to read full post

• MacLeod: A pitching conundrum | 69 d

  Decisions, decisions. The Blue Jays will have all sorts of them over the next little while as the ranks of their injured pitchers start drifting back to the roster. What's a manager to do with his starting rotation with Ricky Romero and Casey Janssen soon to rejoin the team? The no-brainer will involve - Follow link to read full post

• MacLeod: Let the sun shine in | 70 d

  Hallelujah. With clear skies, bright sunshine and decent temperatures, the folk who push the buttons here at the Rogers Centre have gone and done the sensible thing and rolled open the retractable roof. No telling if it is just a test or what, but here's hoping that it remains ajar for tonight's finale - Follow link to read full post

• MacLeod: Walk-ups stun Jays | 71 d

  The Toronto Blue Jays were expecting, at best, a crowd of just over 30,000 for last night's game between the Jays and the New York Yankees. So when 43,737 poured[amp]nbsp; through the gates at Rogers Centre – the second largest gathering of the year outside of opening day – to witness Roy - Follow link to read full post

The Tao of Stieb

• Afternoon typing - Other people's game threads | 17 h

  Contrary to what we said this morning, we're not going to have a game thread of our own here, mostly because there are already so many other delightful places for you to go to sound off.So if you would like to type up some in-game witticisms, visit eyebleaf's Score Blog Federation liveblog extravaganza right about here. We'll be skulking about around there as time permits.And if you're the sort who likes to get angry and yell at Stoeten for being completely reasonable in his own antagonistic way...

• Big Win! Homer Derby! Everybody's happy, right? | 19 h

  So ten runs on eight hits, and we're all happy and contented with the Blue Jays current situation, right?Right?It's easy to discount last night's offensive explosion since it came off Carl Pavano, who is only marginally more effective than putting a tee over home plate. Still, a win's a win and if you're one of those who still ponders the imponderable (Playoffs!!!1?), then we're going to need to take advantage of every sucky pitcher that gets thrown out against you.Speaking of suckingHere's a mi...

• A bountiful buffet of baseball links | 1 d

  On the bright side, our profound depression this morning has little or nothing to do with Roy Halladay, so that's a start.What's got us down this morning is that we're still recovering from watching Lyle Overbay throw last night's game way over Marco Scutaro's head and into left-centerfield (d'oh!), then swing weakly at the first pitch he faced in the ninth (d'oh!) and pop out. FML.Also disturbing: We were watching the game fall apart while on the treadmill at our gym, which out of nowhere has b...

• The Five People You Meet in Fantasy Baseball Hell | 2 d

  We'd told ourselves that we weren't going to bother our readership with tales of our fantasy teams this season.And yet, we feel as though we have to make some sort of excuse provide some sort of rationale for the piss-poor performances of our fantasy teams thus far. This is especially urgent given that we're bringing up the rear in the two leagues that we invited readers to join. Really, we're not that inept.(Alternately, we could spend another day feeding into the mass depression over Roy Halla...

• Monday Bummer - Band of Horses "No One's Going to Love You" | 3 d

  It's not that we want to feed too much more into the creeping malaise that has struck Blue Jays fans as of late, nor do we want to further exacerbate the generalized case of the Mondays that seems to pervade in light of...well...you know.And yet, we've had this sad bastard, desperately pleading Band of Horses song in our head all day long. There's a little part of us that is tempted to find a boom box and stand outside Doc's window like Lloyd Dobbler in Say Anything... and play this until he sig...

Batter's Box - Canadian

• Buehrle Perfect! | 16 h

  ChiSox ace Mark Buehrle threw just the 17th regular-season perfect game in MLB history today. He's also just the 24th pitcher in MLB history to toss multiple no-hitters, as this is his second.Thanks to Bauxite Forkball for the heads up.

• Randy, Randy, Randy | 23 h

  Randy Ruiz hit a three run walk-off home run to lead Vegas to victory.  Auburn won a doubleheader 6-5, that was the score in both games.  Henderson Alvarez retired the first 13 hitters he faced as Lansing won.  Carlos Perez led the GCL Jays to a win.  Dunedin scored eight on their way to a win, only New Hampshire spoiled the organizational sweep.  Colorado Springs 8  Las Vegas 10Las Vegas trailed 8-5 heading to the bottom of the ninth.  Ij the ninth Aaron Mathe...

• No Logos Here! | 1 d

  The highlights - a rain-out and a scheduled day off. Colorado Springs 11 Las Vegas 6Las Vegas, NV - If it's Tuesday, it's a 51's loss.  You can bet everything you have and set your watch to it.  The Vegas win total during my MLU's remains stuck at one.  Lefty Fabio Castro got the start and he did not live up to the first three letters of his first name.  He gave up two runs in the first when Eric Young Jr. singled and Matt Miller homered.  The 51's stormed...

• Just Another Manic Monday! | 2 d

  Just another fun day in the baseball world Monday night and the Jays had nothing to do with it as they enjoyed the day off. With no Jays result to break down, I did a little channel surfing on MLB TV.  The one game I didn't stay up for was the wildest game of the night.  The Minnesota Twins snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, flushing a 12-2 lead down the crapper in come from ahead loss 14-13 loss in Oakland.  The game also ended on a contr...

• Lansing Explodes | 3 d

  Lansing put on a clinic, playing one of the best games of the Jays' minor league season, a couple top prospects had good games, and a rehabber had a not so good game. Colorado Springs 5 at Las Vegas 3Vegas led 3-2 after the 4th inning, but then the bats went to sleep. Davis Romero, Brian Wolfe and Sean Stidfole did their best to keep the 51s in it, but in all cases their best was actually just their mediocrest. J.P. Arencibia led the offense with a single and a homer (and a strikeout). Mighty Jo...

Fan 590: Mike Wilner

• Of Big Boots, Bad Takes and The Doc | 13 h

  4:40 PM Eastern It was one of those rare games that the Blue Jays gave away with their gloves - losing a one-run game in which they allowed the opposition three unearned runs.  Truth is, it was really FOUR unearned runs, but that silly rule that doesn’t allow an official scorer to assume a double play [...]

• Duck! | 1 d

  11:05 PM Eastern For the first time in a long time, we had a good, old-fashioned slugfest at Rogers Centre, with the Blue Jays pounding out five homers on the way to reaching double-digits in runs, but not in hits, and giving them a chance to take the series from the Tribe with a win tomorrow [...]

• Urgh | 2 d

  11:40 PM Eastern Well, that was no fun, and I’m sure it will provide a ton of ammunition for all the Overbay-haters who seem to frequent this space so much. Lyle Overbay made a bad throw at the wrong time, and Scott Downs threw a bad pitch at a worse time, and the Blue Jays fell to [...]

• Tour De Force | 4 d

   5:15 PM Eastern If this was Roy Halladay’s final game in a Blue Jays uniform (and I doubt it was), he went out in about as brilliant a fashion as one can, throwing a complete-game, dominating the Red Sox with a walk-free six-hitter.  It was vintage Halladay, and it was pretty emotional from this end - [...]

• Seems Familiar | 6 d

  12:15 AM Eastern I know I said that I wouldn’t be doing any weekend blogging during the summer because of Baseball Today, but I’m breaking the rule because we’re just coming off the all-star break. And we have come off the break pretty much the same way we went in, watching the Blue Jays being unable to [...]

Bluebird Banter

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Drunk Jays Fans

• Breaking: Dellucci Done, Inglett On His Way Back | 18 h

  Ugh.That's what Wilner just said. More if I decide I give a shit...

• The Threat: Aboriginal People Of North America @ Toronto Blue Jays | 21 h

  Johnny Mac gets an afternoon start!Alright, it's the rubber match of the three game series with the shitty Indians who, in a weird way, remind me of the Jays of last season, who sort of remind me of the Jays of this season. So, these are two similar teams, only the Indians are way worse.Follow? Me neither.What I do know is that if the Jays win today, that will be two straight series victories which means . . . ah, fuck it.Who am I kidding? All we care about now is what happens to a certain pitch...

• Breaking: McGowan Had Knee Surgery | 23 h

  Ol' McGowan had a knee, and buggered was its name-o.Jordan Bastian just Twatted that Dustin McGowan had knee surgery July 9th on his left knee to repair cartilage, which I imagine would be a meniscus tear.From what I can gather after a quick Wikipedia search, a lateral meniscus tear would take longer to recover from than a medial. It also sounds like the cartilage is being repaired and not simply removed. The recovery time for a repaired meniscus apparently takes longer.However, Will Carroll, go...

• Drunk Theory #2... | 1 d

  PR Ricciardi has actually thrown Roy Halladay’s name into trade speculation in a bid to make it look like he gives a shit about what happens to the team after he’s gone. That way, Beeston thinks it’s OK that he continue to let him stay on, even though there’s no fucking way it’s in JP’s interest to start offloading the team’s best players. The only slim chance JP has at keeping his job and getting another contract-- either here or anywhere else-- is by making a playoff run next year, and the onl...

• Game Threat: Jays (46-48) vs. Clevelands (37-57) | 1 d

  Oh, Lyle… Oh, Lyle… Let’s get set for another clusterfuck, as RR Cool J (7-4, 3.25) takes on Carl Pavano (8-7, 5.13). Oh, and here’s a thought I’d like to share with all the pussy GMs who seemingly aren’t willing to give up fucking prospects for a crack at Roy Halladay: I’m pretty sure there’s not a single Jays fan* who ever lamented giving up Jeff Kent to get David Cone during their run to the 1992 World Series.Know what I mean? Which isn’t to say that I want someone to make an offer that the J...

Toronto Blue Jay Way

• Blue Jays Beer Vendor Fired | 371 d

  Blue Jay fans are crying foul after a popular Toronto beer vendor at the Rogers Centre was fired for failing to ask a customer for proper identification.

• Halladay Just Wants to Win | 373 d

  Spencer Kyte of Bugs and Cranks comments on the numerous reports that the Blue Jays’ Ace pitcher is growing tired of missing the post season year after year (join the club, Roy!).

• Jays Fans Welcome Arod to Rogers Centre!!! | 374 d

  Blue Jay fans did their part this weekend to welcome Arod and the Yankees to the Rogers Centre.

• The Value of the Late Rounds of the Draft by Chad Hillman | 406 d

  I have a quiz for you. There is currently a pitcher in the pen in Lansing that is dominating. In 22 1/3 IP so far this year, he has only allowed eight hits and has an ERA of 0.40 and has struck out 32.

• Week 10: Behind the Dish | 406 d

  Week 10 of Behind the Dish is hot off the press. In this issue, Marc Hulet explores the Blue Jays 2007 MLB Draft and suggests a different drafting approach for 2008.

American Jays Fan

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Blue Jays Fever

• All Star Jerseys Rant | 9 d

  Ok... this is basically a rant about the All Star games jerseys and how I dont feel they are used properly so bear with me. I don’t understand why...

• Now or Maybe | 47 d

  It seems to be pretty much everyone's opinion that if we could just add that big threat hitter to the middle of the order and a good pitcher to slide...

• Spirits Up! Spirits Down. | 58 d

  Slump - to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor. That has been the case over the past years for the Toronto Blue Jays....

• JP on the fence | 62 d

  I have never been a JP fan and as you can see from Dan's sig he still isn't. JP tore this team apart and built up a stable minor system. Nothing...

• It aint easy being "Darth" | 99 d

  Darth Vader was not a really nice guy. But if you look at the behind the scenes type of stuff he had to deal with, he actually was doing a...

Toronto Blue Jays: Yahoo News

• MLB Trade: Toronto Blue Jays' GM J.P. Ricciardi: Free agency reason for Roy Halladay talks (ESPN) | 11 h

  Roy Halladay's desire to test the free-agent market following the 2010 season is the primary reason the Toronto Blue Jays are trying to trade their staff ace, general manager J.P. Ricciardi said Thursday.

• Toronto Blue Jays Team Report (USA Today) | 1 h

  It turns out that the idea of fielding offers this month for Roy Halladay wasn't a plan the Blue Jays came up with all on their own.

• Cleveland Indians beat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4, behind David Huff and Kerry Wood (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) | 14 h

  APCleveland Indians starting pitcher David Huff throws to the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning today in Toronto. TORONTO -- Left-hander David Huff pitched into the eighth inning today as the Indians beat Toronto, 5-4, at Rogers Centre to...

• Marco Scutaro hits two of Toronto's five homers as Blue Jays beat Indians 10-6 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) | 1 d

  TORONTO - Marco Scutaro hit two of Toronto's season-high five home runs and matched a career-high with four RBIs, leading the Blue Jays to a 10-6 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday.

• Dustin McGowan of Toronto Blue Jays has knee surgery (ESPN) | 17 h

  Blue Jays right-hander Dustin McGowan had surgery to repair damaged cartilage in his right knee earlier this month, the latest setback on his recovery from shoulder surgery.

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