Time to dig into where things are at for the AL East imo. Plus the old thread is getting a bit long.
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So another pitcher added (Ponce) as the rotation is now 6+ strong. What is going on? Are the Jays doing a Dodgers where you try to corner the market on starting pitchers? Doubtful. Let's see what is here now.
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OK, I'll avoid more puns. 7 years $210 mil with a chunk deferred reducing the present day value to $182 mil ($26 mil per year)
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The Jays are not winning the offseason at this stage, but can add parts to win the East still. Needs are a DH and a 3B (ideally DH is LH) and maybe a 4th OF if you don't trust Schneider/Biggio/kids to cover that. With the old thread well over 200 comments, time for a new one.
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Trades are happening and the game thread is filling up so lets do a deadline day thread.
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Well, the last one is getting long and time to focus on what else the Jays need as we head into Christmas.
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Well, things going nuts in the one thread so we need a clean one, especially for big news like this.
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Sometimes even the best thought-out ideas, the plans with the strongest of foundations... crumble completely and spectacularly.
Then of course, you have what I did... whatever that was.
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I just couldn't let this horrible finale settle without writing something quick... call it a funeral wake-take, if you will.
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Ray won the Cy Young, but Vlad came in 2nd for MVP. More details below on how the Jays did in the various awards.
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The numbers don't decide
your system is a lie
The river running dry
the wings of a butterfly
And you may pour us away like soup
Like we're pretty broken flowers
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It's like I'm falling out of bed
from a long and vivid dream
The sweetest flowered fruits are
hanging from a tree
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As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a string
Before you had too much
Come back in focus again
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We don't really want a monster
taking over
Tiptoe around
tie him down
We don't want the loonies
taking over
Tiptoe around
tie them down
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I jumped into the river
Black eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
and all of the things I used to see
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