Judging from seat availability, if I had to estimate, I'd say there were about 16,000 seats sold for the second game. Walkup crowds will be higher for the hopeful Burnett start and usually consist of 25-30% of the final announced crowd. I'd say that there will be 25-29,000 people there.
Opening Day actually only has about 3,000 seats left. I was talkign with a couple of Jays people today and that's the current number. The website is generally an inaccurate way of indicating tickets sold, as they don't make sections 134 and higher available for sale. I think most f the seats have been taken up by groups.
Also, the Jays sold standing room tickets on Opening Night last year as well for two dollars where fans have the option of watching the game from the concourse area (between 113D and 109)or selecting an empty seat on the 500 level. The place will be sold out.
This injury is really, really scary. It's ruined what had been a pretty good day.
NFH seems like a pretty lucky guy. What can we do? Fu Manchu's? Shall I burn some merchandise? There must be something we can do!
Last stop for the bandwagon. Everybody off!
Come on. "Soon enough this will happen". Would JP give someone a 5 year contract if he *knew* that "soon enough this will happen"? Injury aside, it's SPRING FRIGGIN TRAINING! Tom Cruise's personally life means more to me than this does, injury aside.
If reality took spring training seriously, we'd see this:
-Josh Phelps would be the AL MVP with the runner up Eric Hinske.
-The White Sox would win 28 games.
-The Marlins would win 125 games.
See where I'm going with this?
Now this injury should be taken with seriousness, but until we actually, you know hear something, can we just lay off the "I knew this would happen, everything sucks" talk? :)
Are you seriously saying you'd do differently?
TJ CAINO!
as in Tommy John Caino...
You doomed us, Caino, you doomed us.
Constructive criticism is healthy. "It's a matter of time before Burnett is injured" isn't.
And besides, it is Tommy John Caino's fault anyways.
Burnett experienced some discomfort, and he informed the team on Sunday of some tightness. Since he had Tommy John surgery in April 2003, any elbow ailment is of concern.
As a precaution, Burnett traveled to Birmingham, Ala., where Dr. James Andrews, who performed the Tommy John surgery, diagnosed the problem as elbow inflammation.
Well that provides some comfort. And it looks like he pitched and then informed the team, so if that didn't mess him up, perhaps this won't.
No, I really doubt that. It's pretty clever though that they now give people a reason to come back to the Dome the next day.
I was talking to a Mr. Ryan Greer or one of the shop reps I cna't remember and they said that Jays merchandise will also find its way into Rogers Video locations as well.
As someone majoring in marketing, this is my VORP :)
If they don't this constitutes managerial negligence.
This quote refers back to insurance on pitcher's contracts. You could say the exact same thing of any company that would insure elbows of pitchers who have had Tommy John surgery.
Remember this - no season-ending injury to anybody on this team - anybody, including Roy Halladay - immediately eliminates the team from serious contention. Even if Doc suddenly decided to spend this year meditating in the Himalayas, there's enough left to put up a fight.
That's just the way the game is. The only player who means that much to his team is Babe Ruth.
And he's dead.
Best Nike commercial ever? (Oh, I dunno... the Glavine-Maddux is still a classic. But Park's was wonderful, too.)
VBF, for offering to burn merchandise in an attempt to reverse the franchise's fortunes.
I hear that that Bonds fellow was pretty good, although it might just be them steroids.
Has any player meant more to their team than Bonds in the last 40 years? Hell, ever? Babe Ruth's Yankees had this other guy, what's his name. He played a lot of games in a row. He died of Lou Gehrig's disease.
It would be nice if the baseball world always worked like this. It's an unfair fact of life that this offseason will define Riccardi's reputation. If these deals blow up and this team doesn't compete for the playoffs this year and next he probably won't recover as a GM. Certainly he's got the acumen to contribute to an organization but his career as a General Manager hinges on how this offseason works out.
A potential scenario:
Back to back seasons under .500. McGowan, Purcey, Romero don't develop. Burnett and Ryan are hurt and don't contribute. It would have seemed impossible when he was hired, but JP will have left the franchise worse off then he found it.
Now I'm not predicting this and I think it's highly doubtful. It is one of the myriad of possibilities and if it happens no one is going to care about process, only that the results were a huge disappointment.
Clearly the Onion of sporting news.
The Yankees did eventually get Babe Ruth some help, but not until he was fat and 30... :-)
Note that the thread links on those pages are functional, taking you into the archives of the current Batter's Box. You'll find much shorter threads, but lots of signal and no noise to speak of. The good ol' days, some of us would say.
Indeed. Mike Mahoney appeared in the game even, going oh-for-1. Apparently he's been in camp for a little while now, as he has a spring average of .800. JP was saying that he's a defence-first guy and will give them depth at Syracuse, "something we were lacking last year". Meanwhile, 2005 saw far too much AAA catching in Toronto.
JP's comment makes it seem he's positive he'll be saying goodbye to Phillips and/or Quiroz.
What happened for him? Was he great in relation to his contributions to the awesome Jays bullpen of '92?
He was looking like a good workhorse pitcher in '94 and '95, but what were the highlights of '93?
Also must point out the rarity of somebody calling David Wells smart. He's doing a pretty good impression of a pain in the ass lately.
Just throw another Sirotka jersey on the fire and you'll be okay.
On the bright side, Arroyo is the comparable for the Reds' #1 pitcher, Aaron Harang. So now they have two #1s! Isn't that great?
Nice to see that of all the offers they were getting for Pena, they went for a second #1.
Wildrose is mostly right. But it's not just new replacing old. The old, bad, ligament (UCL) is replaced by a tendon (usually the palmaris longus, which, strangely, is not present in everyone). Tendons are stretchier and generally more durable than ligaments. The added stretch can be the source of the increase in velocity, although simply being healthy-perhaps healthier than before the actual "injury"-likely plays a role too.
I'm not a doctor but I have read enough comics to know that given enough x-rays and MRIs, AJ Burnett might develop superpowers. It's not a given though. Maybe the Jays should dump radioactive waste on him to make sure.
