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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Blue Jays' loss against the Phillies?
All right, Kevin Barker. Well, I mean, the good news is that the Jays scored two runs off of Christopher Sanchez. And the last time he gave up two runs was April 30th. Ernie Clement hit a home run. He'd only given up three home runs all year. But at the end of the day, a 5-2... Lost for the Blue Jays to Christopher Sanchez and the Phillies.
I would say that this game, Kevin, for the most part, went almost exactly the way I thought it would go. Except maybe the Jays got one more run than I thought they might get off this guy.
Yeah, maybe that's fair. I mean, you've got to give the Jays a little bit of credit. They brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh inning and the eighth inning. You know, against that guy, especially in the seventh inning, and then you did it again in the eighth inning with Vladdy up to maybe tie the game. So, you know, all wasn't lost, I think. Some guys had some decent at-bats.
Ernie, you mentioned, with the solo homer, right? I mean, gets to everything. It really is amazing that he is this good of a bad ball hitter. When you're telling everybody else, you've got to look real small. You've got to keyhole him.
Chapter 2: How did the performance of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer impact the game?
Shoot, this guy goes up and swings at everything. He's hitting everything to the moon, hitting balls through the fence. You know, it's crazy just the kind of year he's having. Myles Straw had some good at-bats. Pinango had a good at-bat. He almost knocked the fence down in right center off of Christopher Sanchez.
So there were some guys, Okamoto, you know, even though he was 0 for 4, he had a couple just misses, which ā If you're going to try and build off of something right, maybe that's kind of the thing you're building off of. It's just really tough, Jeff, with all that said, when Springer, Vladdy, and Okamoto are 0 for 12 with seven punches.
Just against guys that kind of are elite and can add and subtract and get you to chase and get you to do things that you don't want to do, you kind of need your middle-of-the-order guys to be your middle-of-the-order guys. And when they're not, Most of the time you lose those games. I think that's just kind of what happened tonight. The big boys that were in the lineup just didn't get a big hit.
Yeah, Vladdy looked absolutely awful. Not just against Sanchez, but against Keller as well. That strikeout on that sweeper, which was way off the plate. Kind of, at least from what I could hear on TV, there's some grumbling. when Vladdy struck out and went back to the plate. You know, we talked about it in Blair and Barker today.
Chapter 3: What does Ernie Clement's home run mean for his All-Star candidacy?
You know, look, he's got a lot of people in his ear right now about what he's doing, what he needs to do. And, I mean, I'm at the point, Kevin, where I think he's got to figure it out himself, man. I just think he's got to figure it out himself.
Yeah, maybe. I mean, I would think most of the time that's kind of what it is. You know, maybe he is the one guy that needs to keyhole something, right? Think about something that you can pull in the air. If you don't get it, don't swing at it. It's kind of small approaches at a time to take a big step forward.
for whatever reason, like the 2-1 pitch to Keller in the eighth inning, that ball normally when he's on time, he's hitting that thing to the moon, either to right center, center, left center, or he's pulling that ball. And when he fouls it off like that, you can see him visually frustrated. You knew he was chasing the sweeper off the plate.
After he misses one pitch, you can tell his at-bats are predictable after that, and that's something that he has to get past. Popkins got tossed in the fourth inning because of Laddie. Nobody else. Because of Vladdy, because he obviously they're working on something and they're in a cage and he's trying to basically tell Vladdy, I believe in you, dude.
Like it's it's just kind of thing where right now it seems to me like they're trying everything right. I mean, I don't know the information that they're giving him because I'm not in the room. I just know consistently he doesn't look the way he kind of wants to look and the way we expect him to look.
And I think sometimes you just got to simplify it enough to think, okay, how do I hit this ball to center as hard as I can?
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Chapter 4: What are the concerns surrounding Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s current performance?
If I don't get the pitch to do that, I take them. How would I hit the ball in the air as hard as I can to the poolside? If I don't get that pitch, I take him. Can he consistently do that? And if he can, maybe we'd see him take off. But seeing this Vladdy consistently every day, this is the worst we've ever seen him. I mean, let's be fair. This is rock bottom for him.
Yeah, I don't think there's any question about that. You know, to have three. He hasn't homered at home this year. Crazy. Think about that. He is not homered at home this year. Well. I mean, no disrespect to these guys. Brandon Valenzuela and Ernie Clement have more home runs than he does. Yeah. And, again, no disrespect to them.
Well, the difference, you know, sometimes I think that's a little unfair because the expectations around people like those two names that you just mentioned aren't what they are around Blatty.
Chapter 5: How did Simeon Woods Richardson perform in his season debut?
I get your point. Yeah. And I'm not saying that you're wrong.
Three home runs, Kevin. That's not a matter of like, I mean, there's putting pressure on yourself and then there's putting pressure on yourself. Like, well, I think that's where he's at. Well, I don't think he would. Anyhow, I can't imagine he was in that state of mind in the first month of the year where he wasn't hitting home runs either. I mean, he just he doesn't have he doesn't have any.
He doesn't even hit balls that entice you anymore. He doesn't even hit balls to the outfield where you go, oh, oh. You don't.
Like those two balls that Okamoto hit tonight.
Yeah. There was never any doubt. I mean, it's getting to the point where you're begging for something to happen. You watch them swing. You watch them hit those balls in the outfield. There's absolutely no sense that they're carrying the yard.
I know what I'd do.
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Chapter 6: What changes might the Blue Jays consider for their batting order?
I'd go make me a dig me tape, and I'd go just put that thing on play and listen to it and watch it until I can't watch it anymore. It's kind of like those at-bats that he had where he's hitting balls to the moon in the playoffs and in the World Series. You get you a tape with a bunch of those quality at-bats that look the way you want them to look. Go put them in a VCR. I don't do that anymore.
Go sit down and watch that over and over and over again. Just kind of get you in the mindset of what it's supposed to look like. You can close your eyes when you're in the batter's box and actually feel your way to what it felt like when you were in the playoffs and in the World Series. For me, you've got to start somewhere. If it was me, I'd start right there.
Yeah, it's a lot better than calling Uncle Wilton to see what ideas he has. 416-870-0590, star 590, 1-888-666-0590. Get nasty. 590-590 is the text line. The Blue Jays have lost 5-2 to Christopher Sanchez and the Philadelphia Phillies. Let's go to the phone lines. David in Toronto, you're leaving the game. You're on Blue Jays talk. Oh, sorry. Tyler in Thunder Bay.
Chapter 7: How do the hosts assess the Blue Jays' overall offensive strategy?
My bad, Tyler.
Go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on again. No worries. I just want to bring up three stats that I saw throughout the game on Twitter. And if you think about them long enough, it's absolutely embarrassing. Over his last 88 regular season games, Vladdy has three home runs. He has not hit a home run at the Rogers Centre in the regular season since August 17th of 2025.
And over his last 90 games, Miles Straw... has more home runs than Vladimir Guerrero Jr. This guy's a liability lately. I mean, what can we do with this guy? It seems like a stretch, but this guy might not even hit 10 home runs this season. $500 million, and he might not even reach double digits. It's embarrassing, and something needs to be done.
I don't know what you can do.
Keep running him out there.
Yeah, I mean, he's not going to ā you're not going to bench his way out of this. You're not going to bench him anyhow.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the upcoming series against the Yankees?
Yeah, I'm with Kevin. I don't think there's a fix. Got this guy for 13 more years, and it's kind of ā You're not going to... Please, God, please. We're not going to start revisiting the contract in the first year of this thing. I don't think... Look, I keep saying I still... I'm hanging on to faith with Vladdy because I got no choice. Yeah. I mean, I just do.
I'm almost at the point where I'm absolutely panicking and I absolutely need him. to have a better year because I don't want to be sitting in September with Vladdy having 10 home runs and answering calls from fans who are rightly not taking anything away from the fans. The fans were going to be upset.
Yeah, I think it's to the point where you start thinking about a different way with Vladdy. You think about how can he drive in 75 runs. Stop thinking about how many home runs he's got and how many RBIs he can drive in. I think that's kind of where we're at, right? It's about run producing. It ain't always about hitting homers. Right now he's going through it for whatever reason, right?
I think it's timing. Could be a bunch of different things with him now. You know, it could be a combination of all the above. And when it's all the above, you've got to simplify it enough to go, okay, if I'm not hitting homers, how do I drive in runs? You know, John put Lucas in front of him because he knew Lucas would be a tough out. He would see multiple pitches.
It would make it easier for Vladdy not to have to worry about how the guy in front of him is getting out and worry about how he's going to attack his bat. So John did him a solid by doing that. And it's up to Vladdy to go up and think about just basically driving a ball as hard as you can possibly drive it to right center field. How do you start there?
If you can start there driving in runs that way, if he does it enough, he gets enough confidence doing that, maybe he'll start running into some. But for me, going forward, Jeff, I'm going to stop bringing up the number three, and I'm going to start worrying about how many runs he's driving in.
I mean, whatever keeps your sanity afloat. I'll do it. There it is, buddy. David in Toronto, leaving the game. How are you, David?
Good. How are you guys doing?
Good, thanks.
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