Keys To a Mid-May Turnaround with Joe Maddon
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What were the highlights of the Blue Jays' recent game against the Rays?
All right. Welcome to Blair and Barker, brought to you by Capital One. Capital One giving credit to over 4 million Canadians and counting. I feel oddly fired up today.
For what?
I have no idea.
Well, you look nice. I look nice? Yeah, you do. You got to look the part sometimes, you know?
How did the Blue Jays' five-run seventh inning impact the game?
You look good, you talk good. You got my Ajax Amsterdam t-shirt on? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know?
Just enough to talk about baseball. That's all. Let's do a whole show on soccer. I don't know anything.
What role does speed play in the Rays' success against the Blue Jays?
I don't even know how to spell soccer, so it can't.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding. We'll do a whole show, two hours, and we'll tell you everything you need to know about why the Jays are going to break out of it tonight. There it is. Break out. I got a feeling.
What insights does Joe Maddon provide about the Rays' formula for success?
I got a feeling in my... I got a feeling the Jays are going to break out of it tonight. Bill and Cease against Griffin Jacks, 7-0-7 first pitch. My Rays, 28-13 Rays. Folks, they are a juggernaut. Just give them the World Series already. Against Barkers, 18-24 Blue Jays. After last night's 7-6 loss in 10 innings.
Why is it too early for Blue Jays fans to panic?
A game that I thought I saw some positive signs in. And then I did Blue Jays talk, and I came away thinking, That's not true. Not true. Not entirely true. Some positive. Hey, five-run seventh inning. Yeah. Five-run seventh inning. Yohendrik Penango, the man.
Yeah.
How can John Schneider maximize Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s potential?
Gets a good pitch to hit. That's what it's all about, right? You take the pitcher's pitch to get your pitch. When you get it, you don't miss it. Think big part of the field. That's kind of how you have success at the big league level. So that's kind of nice to watch.
There's one positive. Jay's down 5-0. Score five to tie it up.
What adjustments has Dylan Cease made to improve his pitching?
George Springer scored for first on a double. George Springer scored. Which is unbelievable. And two infield hits. Yeah. George was cruising last night. George is fired up.
Sanchez had a pinch hit double.
At the end of the day, though, I mean, the Rays did what they are doing a lot of this year. I mean, they're three really good players. Well, Cam and Arrow wasn't great defensively, but they're three really good offensive players contributing, and they just use speed. Taylor Walls just, you know, we did player of the game for Capital One. We do it every Blue Jays talk. The first game of this series was Chandler Simpson. The second game of this series was Taylor Walls, a number nine hitter, who just really, I realized this watching the Rays last night in extra innings. They might be the scariest extra inning team in baseball. with their ability with the way they run. They got the right guy on second as a ghost runner.
They're almost a guaranteed two-run inning on the road.
Yeah, I'm not sure what you're basing that off of.
How does Joe Maddon view the importance of leadership in baseball?
I know they're a really good team. I know it's been hard for the Jays this year, which kind of made them special last year was whenever the other team needed to do something, make a play, put a ball in play, move a runner, the Jays were real good about not letting them do that. And just early on this year, they've had a real tough time of – kind of tampering that down and not allowing guys. It's like the 0-2 fly ball to left field that moved the runner to third in the extra inning. It's just little things like that that they were really good at last year that's just early on here this year. Maybe it's guys trying too hard. Maybe it's just lack of execution. Maybe it's pitch selection. It could be a ton of things.
But it just seems for whatever reason when that situation comes about that Jays just have a real tough time of sort of executing, making the play, getting the out, forcing the other team to earn the win. And sometimes they don't do that all the time.
No, I am going to say this, though, too. We always talk about sometimes you have to tip your cap to the other pitcher. I mean, Taylor Walls in that extra inning, taking third base on what was a wild pitch, but not many people go to, not many people try to go to third base on that pitch. No. Just really alert. And what I liked about, and I'm not going to turn this into Taylor Walls love fest. Guy got thrown out by Brandon Valenzuela.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the highlights of the Blue Jays' recent game against the Rays?
0:10–0:32
2
How did the Blue Jays' five-run seventh inning impact the game?
0:32–0:47
3
What role does speed play in the Rays' success against the Blue Jays?
0:47–1:01
4
What insights does Joe Maddon provide about the Rays' formula for success?
1:01–1:23
5
Why is it too early for Blue Jays fans to panic?
1:23–1:40
6
How can John Schneider maximize Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s potential?
1:40–1:55
7
What adjustments has Dylan Cease made to improve his pitching?
1:55–3:01
8
How does Joe Maddon view the importance of leadership in baseball?
3:01–49:51
Speakers
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