Did I ever mention how much I hate un-balanced schedules.

No one wants to pay more than a dollar or two for tickets, no one wants to pay to listen to the games-10cents per game, if you listened to one every day-and everyone complains that the payroll isn't enough, and that Rogers is cheap.

Just like the regular season will be, right?

You seem a little antagonistic, Tyler. Something wrong?

"Everyone complains that the payroll isn't enough" doesn't make a lot of sense when there was just a huge increase in the payroll. "Nobody wants to pay more than two dollars" makes no sense, because there are thousands of fans paying more than that for every single game of the season. I'm not sure which people you are referring to, but I'm not sure of a lot of things in this crazy world we live in.

I made a throwaway comment about Mike Wilner's misleading comments from Sunday -- and I like Wilner, so it's not part of a hidden agenda -- and you make it sound as if I'm a cheap bastard who won't pay for anything and blasts Rogers for not increasing the payroll.

And while we're at it, Rogers is not cheap. Ever hear of something called a 3-day rental of a new release?

I made a throwaway comment about Mike Wilner's misleading comments from Sunday -- and I like Wilner, so it's not part of a hidden agenda -- and you make it sound as if I'm a cheap bastard who won't pay for anything and blasts Rogers for not increasing the payroll.

It's not you so much as the group. Go back and look at the monster discussion about the season pass, and the complaining about it being (at the time) discontinued for the 2005 season. I can't see how Wilner's comment was misleading-the game was available on bluejays.com, no? You're unhappy because you assumed it was free. This seems to be a common complaint around here-MLB and Rogers want to make money from their products.

The payroll thing...I think we'd all agree that it would be ludicrous to add payroll now, but it's still something that people were bellowing for all winter. Hillenbrand is a giant waste of money-Dudek is looking rather prescient right now in his comments about Gross being blocked, although it's obviously very early.

My feelings exactly. I've paid the extra buck to get all four Sportsnets; I pay an extra $2.99 monthly to get a high-quality digital feed of the Fan 590 for the nice stereo at home; I've purchased Season's Passes the past two seasons and the only thing stopping me from doing it this season is that I'm a new dad and won't have time to go to a looney number of games.

If I had an extra $15 US, sure, I might sign up for gameday just for these spring training games. I'll admit, I considered it. But I will not use this service at all for the rest of the year, so I'm not getting it.

I'm not stingy or cheap with my baseball money -- I'm practical.

Sorry, I'm confused. I thought the consensus was that we'd be happy to have it back at twice the price, and that's what they gave us and we were happy with the price doubling. I don't recall a single complaint about the Jays doubling the price of the Season's Pass.

I think you'd want to look at who was bellowing that and what the response to them was.

I disagree. Im not a huge Hillenbrand fan or anything but I like that the Jays actually went out and got a hitter to plug a hole. Let's say we dont get Hillenbrand and instead call up Gross to play LF (Cat moves to DH). Then at the first sign of injury to Hinske/Koskie/Cat/Gross/Rios, you've either got Reed or Menechino batting in the lineup every single day, not terrible, I like both those guys but not as everyday players. A second injury leaves you I dont want to know where. You dont have a Gross or Rios in the minors to call up this year because they're both already on the team. Hill might be close but he hasnt even played AAA yet. I wince at some of the teams fielded last year due to injury (you know the days Im talking about), I dont think it will as bad this year, but having a little insurance is ok with me.