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Chapter 1: What happened in the Blue Jays' latest game against the Rangers?
I mean, I was kind of hoping that Chris and Eric would take it for another 25 minutes. Wishful thinking, my friend. Wishful thinking. I mean, we could replay Monday's show or Tuesday's show or Thursday's show. I don't know about Tuesday. One of those days they won. We could probably pick just about any one of those shows to replay.
I don't think that's fair. A couple guys got some hits we can talk about.
I'll thank Kevin for small mercies. It is Blue Jays talk with Blair and Barker. Barker's Blue Jays on the losing end of a 5-4 decision to the Texas Rangers tonight. The numbers to call, as always, 416-870-0590, star 590, 1-888-666-0590. The text line is open, 590-590-0590.
is the text line uh i mean i think listen i i i think chris larue did kind of sum it up well i mean patrick corbin i gotta say this kevin i hope that's the last start we see from patrick corbin i really do like it just sucks the life out of the building he just uh You know, non-competitive. Three runs in the first inning. I mean, this game's over in the third. The Jays rallied. The Jays rallied.
But we also know that when a Jays rally like this, I mean, the ninth inning was a little predictable. Lead off walk and then nada.
I mean, him and us not getting the bunt down, you know, stabbing at it. We gave him kudos a couple days ago when he got the bunt down off the tough guy, you know, with the weird arm slot tonight against the lefty. For whatever reason, he's stabbing at it. It looked to me like he was leaning back. Trying to get a bunt down, it's just a weird way to try and bunt, try and get a guy over, right?
Get your nose in there, get the barrel out front, leave it there, let the ball hit the barrel. Don't try and stab the barrel at the ball. You mentioned Corbin, right? I mean, just when you pitch behind as much as he did tonight, 48%, 10 for 21, throwing strike one, that's just not good enough. And the fastballs were just not in the zone enough.
The fastball, the sinker, the cutter, that's never a good thing. And when you don't have enough slider, right? or change-up to put people away, you have to throw enough strikes with your other three pitches. Just didn't happen enough, right?
The action of those pitches when you want called strikes, swings, and whiffs, and you're falling behind all the time, that's why you see a bunch of 3-2 counts. That's why you see a bunch of hangers. Guys just don't need to respect any of those. Jeff, when you don't need to respect any of those, you let it travel a little bit more. That's why you see pitch counts go up.
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Chapter 2: How did Patrick Corbin perform in this game, and what are the implications?
And I was checking, you know, Nathan Evaldi, I mean, all these starters, they do give up runs to other teams early in the game. So I... I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I've given up. Honest to God, I've given up trying to figure out this offense. I just have.
I, you know, other than hoping Vladdy gets it going, I mean, beyond that, you know, beyond the front office jumping in here and doing something, we've already talked about that ad nauseum.
Yeah, I think you've got to give Vladdy a little bit of love tonight. I mean, he inside-out a couple of balls. He drove in a couple of runs. That's the big deal. You know, Okamoto again, four homers, 11 RBIs his last six games. You hit more heaters over the seats, you're going to get more hangers, right? The sweeper is basically the pitch that he really has never seen before.
And when our camera panned over – and they were trying to give him game plans. And when he walked up to go to the back rack, he sort of gave that little sidearm flip, which means you're getting the sweeper. Sooner or later, you're going to get it. Sooner or later, you're going to have to hit it. But for me, you've got to get athletic to hit the hater.
You've got to get athletic to get after velocity. That just gives you that little extra split second. to recognize spin, beat it to the spot, and create a little backspin and sort of throw it in the air. And that's exactly what happened. Jeff, this dude's got major power to the poolside. I'm talking grown man power. And this has been a really good story.
From what we saw at the beginning of the season, some people wanted to throw him in an Uber, run him out of town defensively. And now all of a sudden you can't wait to watch him go hit, play defense, run the bases. For me, he's their MVP, everyday player.
Yeah, I mean, I know. And I tried to talk you out of thinking that and saying that about Okamoto early in the year, and you just continued to not listen to me.
Nobody was going to run him out of town. Oh, you were already calling the Uber, and you basically was driving the car there. No, you know me. Boy, you're going to have to figure out where to put Springer. You need to VH this guy every day. How can they win games with this bad of a defense?
I wouldn't call Uber ever. I'd call a taxi. Well, I mean, anyhow, get me started about the gig economy first. 416-870-0590, star 591-888-666-0591.
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Chapter 3: Can the Blue Jays offense improve against starting pitchers?
And let's be real, too, their rotation's not great either. No, that is – boy, oh, boy.
Okay. I mean, we fell for that early in the year. Like, I thought the rotation – I just didn't think it was an issue. I was the one saying, well, they'll figure it out. They'll figure it out. They just – I don't think they have enough arms to figure it out right now. They've essentially got – A couple of guys that I really don't want to see pitching for them again.
And, you know, we'll see what Shane Bieber brings the next time. You know, but, yeah, call me underwhelmed by the rotation. Like, I think we need to – we're almost at the point where this – we can look around the American League and say everybody stinks, everybody's awful, it's horrible, it's a tire fire, all that stuff. But I think we also have to just –
kind of take a look at this thing and say, you know, maybe the Jays need some major moves here. Maybe this just isn't a matter of adding one guy. You might need to bring in – you might need to make some major moves here. Boy, I think you nailed that. You may have to have a real think about what you are this year.
Even if you get a wild card spot, you've got to have a real think about how good you really are. Okay, you're going to get Addison Barger back. I get that. And I do believe I can see Ross and John saying, hey, we think our best baseball is in front of us. It might be, but it can't be September. Like the best baseball that's in front of you has to be a lot.
It has to materialize a lot sooner than that. And I just, I don't see it with this group. I don't see it with this group. I mean, the bringing, you know, Sean Keyes is up here and we haven't talked about him yet. Boy, I'll tell you what, does Jesus Sanchez have a sense of timing or what though? Rolling his ankle in the day that Sean, that's the first thing I thought of.
I know you did. Not even, man, I hope he's okay. You were thinking, boy, he got lucky.
That's what you were thinking. I don't want to say anything, but I'm pretty certain I saw a bunch of people from the front office high-fiving when he was there. No, that's awful.
I shouldn't say that.
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