John Marossi

Like, we're trying to stay on top of things as quickly as possible.

And I find that that's the biggest challenge or change in going from basketball to baseball is truly catching up with the speed of the game and the pace of the game versus how it was for literally 50 years, 100 years, and the way that traditional baseball, traditionalists kind of were sort of used to watching and listening to things.

Okay, let me give you at least one little preface here.

I fully admit that I'm going to sit on the fence, but this is to me, if we're being truly honest about the situation, I feel like this is a fence-sitting worthy conversation.

The reason I say that is, let's go back to the beginning of the game.

Did anybody think that Trey Savage had his stuff that game?

I mean, if you make it out of five innings and you've got seven walks, he did not have anywhere close to his top stuff in that game.

And in all likelihood, I actually tried to look up the number at the end of the game, Blake, and I couldn't find it.

I asked Ben to do it as well, and I don't think he was able to find it.

How many times, literally in history, let alone in recent history,

as a blue jay pitcher let alone any pitcher in baseball or pitching staff had double digit walks and won the game because the savage had seven and when the pen came and i believe the pen total had four more so i believe it was 11 walks might have been 12 in that game chances are if i were to tell you at the end of the game hey the blue jay pitching staff had 11 12 watts and trey savage had seven your first question to me would be how much did they lose by

So the fact that they were in a position to win that game 5-1 before it got away from them in the bottom of the ninth, I think was a minor miracle.

So again, if we're being totally honest with ourselves, Toronto probably should not have won that game.

But to get to your question specifically, this is why I kind of lean on both sides of the fence.

I joked with Chris LaRue about this off the air because he was wandering around the studios as well doing some TV work.

Even right now, and I say this with all due respect to Chris, maybe a little bit of a Jeff, but even at his age, his years removed from Major League Baseball, if he were to step into a game right now, I'm talking like tonight, I've got to think I would have the faith that he would be able to hold down a four-run lead.

He might give up two or three, but I've got to think that I'm feeling fairly confident if I'm handing the ball off to Jeff Hoffman with a four-run lead.

So I don't totally...

criticize John Schneider for the thinking because if we go back to and I remember calling the series roughly about a month or so ago when the Blue Jays were playing the race and there was a situation I can't remember if it was game two or three of the series but it was a situation where it was the eighth inning

And they either 2-3-4 or 3-4-5 hitters for the Rays were coming up, and the Jays had a lead.