Odd Ends Against the O's + State of the AL with Jayson Stark
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What happened during the Blue Jays' weekend series against the Orioles?
Oh, boy, he's back. I thought you'd be wearing your tuxedo for us today. Oh, funny, funny, funny. Don't be that way. I'm not. You are. It is Blair and Barker. Kevin Barker is back. Big shout-out, by the way, to friend of the show, Hazel May, for her Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Excellence yesterday. I was a little disappointed. I thought they'd take you up on the red carpet, but... It's my wife's day.
Yeah, but you're her better half. She's the half that's better. I'm just half. You know, it was a great time. She did a heck of a job with the speech.
You'd almost get the impression that Hazel's spoken in public before.
Oh, boy. I mean, she had me teared up. She had my son tearing up. She had the family members, her mother tearing up. You know, people were cheering. It was, you know, Hazel's a rock star when it comes to doing things like that. Everything she gets, she deserves.
Absolutely. It's a cool deal. Congratulations, sir. It is a hugely, hugely, hugely significant award, the Gordon Sinclair Award for broadcast excellence. And it's really well-deserved. We're very proud of Hazel.
Yeah. Ron McClain did a heck of a job, too, introducing it. There's another guy who's used to speaking about it. Boy, just getting the ball rolling in the right direction. Boy, it's not the easiest thing to do all the time, but he nailed it, too. It was a lot of fun. No, it was a great night.
Really well done to everybody. All right, well, that's the upbeat part of the show. Oh, boy. Parker, what the hell are they going to do with Jeff Hoffman?
That's a tremendous question. Well, as of right now, they're going to keep running him out there. It's just, when do you run him out there? You know, he's... You know, I would think that John felt pretty comfortable after sort of the six outings leading up to the ninth inning, the lead that they had, where Jeff was throwing in that inning. I mean, all of those things added up to Jeff having a good outing and the Blue Jays winning the series. And then, you know, after he gets the first out and he hit the next guy, it just seems like for whatever reason. Man on base, he's a different guy, man. Well, yeah, maybe, you know. It's just the big misses. He talks a lot about getting ahead and the little mechanical change that he won't tell anybody what he did.
It's very hard to notice just the minutest little thing that a guy's trying to change and directional and where his hands are starting. There's a bunch of things that he could have done just to make him feel a little bit more comfortable. Some of this was bad luck. Some of it was bad pitching. Some of it was good hitting. Like, it's just, you know, the walks are never a good thing. The hit by a pitch obviously kind of got the inning started. This was just sort of one of those outings to where, you know, they just didn't have anybody else to go to. That's basically what it was, right? You'd used Tyler Rogers already. You used Louie Varlin, biggest part of the order. You were trying to hold the deficit. You gave your lineup a chance.
We're talking about –
We're talking about Saturday's 6-5 loss to Baltimore. And quite honestly, the reason I ask that question is it was the perfect time to use the Jeff Hoffman that we've seen lately. It was. And this is the thing that I think is maddening about it. Because if you're John, the evidence would suggest that that was the move to make, right? And it's that old story. Just because something doesn't work out doesn't mean it was not the right move at the time.
But John's got what John's got.
Yeah. And he had a great point. I mean, look, as he said, they were playing with fire all day. I mean, Trey is savage. Seven walks. Seven walks. I mean, what they have, total number of walks, is it 11, 12 walks or something like that? The Jays splitting the series with the Orioles, or to be more accurate, the Orioles splitting the series with the Jays because the Jays won the first two games, and then they lost the last two, and there's really not much to talk about yesterday's 9-5 loss. I guess Spencer Miles was due for a stinker at some point.
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