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LBF wrote: View PostThe Argos just won a championship. The Blue Jays are relevant! Go out and celebrate!(especially,because that fat fuck got fired!)
Instead of crabbing about how shit the raptors are...youve actually got some positive and yet, are still focused on the negative. Has it just been a negative,depressing,losing culture for that long, that toronto fans don't know what else to do!?
The raptors are doing as expected and people are getting mad. Meanwhile, as i mentioned the thing about the argos and the jays...heck, i think even the marlies are doing good(?)...so, quit your depressed, angst-ridden rants, take a breath, and look at all this positive.
Hell, the lockout keeps you from having to watch the maple laughs stink up the place!
Seriously, the raptors sucking is nothing new. A major toronto team(sorry, toronto rock)winning a championship and the blue jays being relevant is!
As for the Jays, I think they're getting tons of attention, considering it's the offseason. But how much talking can you do about a team that is still months from the season, and much longer before they might play 'meaningful' games. So the Jays are not relevant, because as Nilanka said, they're pretty much garbage until they prove otherwise. But again, they are getting lots of attention, and probably more than they have in an offseason since they acquired Paul Molitor.
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ebrian wrote: View PostI've said this many times and I'll say it again.. and I apologize to the fans on this board, but the Toronto Blue Jays are a farm team for Major League Baseball. Other teams use the Jays to develop talent and then they take them. The trades they make, nothing more than ways to keep the faithful from catching on to what is really happening. I know it all sounds conspiracy theorist-like, but it's the sad truth.
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slaw wrote: View PostThis is nonsense. Other than possibly Roy Halladay, can you name a single player in the past 5 years that this describes? Ten years? Delgado? They chose not to resign him. Shawn Green? Hated Gaston. The corpse of Vernon Wells? I can't think of a single player this describes.
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ebrian wrote: View PostI've said this many times and I'll say it again.. and I apologize to the fans on this board, but the Toronto Blue Jays are a farm team for Major League Baseball. Other teams use the Jays to develop talent and then they take them. The trades they make, nothing more than ways to keep the faithful from catching on to what is really happening. I know it all sounds conspiracy theorist-like, but it's the sad truth.
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Mack North wrote: View PostIt's only the truth if YOU believe it. As slaw said, this is nonsense, and I don't agree at all.your pal,
ebrian
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ebrian wrote:That's odd.. how did my reply end up above your post?
Anyway, the point is that the Jays are farming up good players and every few years they trade them out to get vets and make a run. It won't work. It just won't. Logically this makes absolutely no sense (ie it COULD work), but I'm predicting it won't using the same logic I used to conclude the Raptors would continue to suck this year.
Hopefully I'm wrong.. but in all honesty I could not care less. Sitting in an empty ACC pretending to watch hockey being played is more exciting to me than watching baseball.
If anything, the Jays biggest issue the last decade has been that they haven't really developed anyone from their own farm system. It's only in the last few years (Arencibia, Romero) that they've drafted everyday players. Even most of their good young players (Lawrie, D'arnaud, Gose, Rasmus, Morrow) were all acquired via trade.
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LBF wrote: View PostThe Argos just won a championship. The Blue Jays are relevant! Go out and celebrate!(especially,because that fat fuck got fired!)
Instead of crabbing about how shit the raptors are...youve actually got some positive and yet, are still focused on the negative. Has it just been a negative,depressing,losing culture for that long, that toronto fans don't know what else to do!?
The raptors are doing as expected and people are getting mad. Meanwhile, as i mentioned the thing about the argos and the jays...heck, i think even the marlies are doing good(?)...so, quit your depressed, angst-ridden rants, take a breath, and look at all this positive.
Hell, the lockout keeps you from having to watch the maple laughs stink up the place!
Seriously, the raptors sucking is nothing new. A major toronto team(sorry, toronto rock)winning a championship and the blue jays being relevant is!i8theball.com it's a website...about, you know....basketball.
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NoPropsneeded wrote: View PostNot everyone likes those sports y'know. I don't watch anything but basketballIf Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?
Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.
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Im going to try to respond tp every replt in one post.
First, the CFL is not a jokeleague and a sold-out greycup at rogers center proves this. Anyone, who says it is,is talking out their ass.
Second, I live in Hamilton,Ontari. and am ati-cat fan,so, i hate the argos.So, everyone who calls me atypical fan in the gta can suck it!
Thirdly, it doesn't matter if you follow the sport or not. A championship is cause for a celebration. I know so many people who celebrate when Canada wins gold and don't watch hockey.
Fourthly, for those of you outside of toronto,who don't celebrate the argos winning and don't follow the jays. I realize there is no hockey, either. But, you seem to have missed the parts about theraptorssucking is nothing new...if you honestly, expected a betterrecord it would be what like 5 wins by now instead of 3!? I mean,really...
Fifthly,those saying the jays are expecting to win with the same miami core that won them 60 games are lying to themselves. We already had a decent team here and we didn't trade away any of our main guys...so,how exactly are we the same core as miami? Last time I checked, Miami didn't have Bautista,Encarnacion,Lind,Rasmus,Lawrie,Cabrera,Ro mero,Morrow,etc. Who are all in toronto's starting line-ups...
I'd also like to touch on just how awful the grey-cup half-time show was, as well as burton cummings butchering the anthem...
Back to the raps, as this is a raps forum. We are a team that is full of unproven, young guys and our two best players are complimentary pieces. What were you expecting? It's also early.
Furthermore, I actually want the raps to lose as should you guys because we need all the chances we can get at drafting/collecting highly-touted prospects. We need a top 5 pick player besides Valanciunas, we've needed one for god knows...I belive we are in the process much like the jays were of piling up prospects,so, that you get enough that you are able to pick the one's that are the right fit and ship out the rest for some talent.
It's been as follows on thisforum since Bosh left. There is a strong focus on how crap the team is as if something better is to be expected and there is a group that lie to themselves about just how big the positives are(they aren't big)...everyone is not looking at the big picture or let's say, future. They are for some reason looking at the present and expecting more, when that is wrong. We aren't looking hard enough or focusing enough at the future to actually realize it is quite promising,maybe even more legitely now than potentially.
Finally,I am fine. I post quite often in the off-topic and unrelated to basketball sports forum. There is a lot more interesting conversation to be had there than in this one currently. It's also more fun than all the same old crap regurgitated on this forum.
I feel the need once in a while to shake things up and ruffle some feathers in here and I felt it was overdue.If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?
Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.
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slaw wrote: View PostAgain, this is just plain wrong. The Jays have absolutely never operated this way. Ever.
If anything, the Jays biggest issue the last decade has been that they haven't really developed anyone from their own farm system. It's only in the last few years (Arencibia, Romero) that they've drafted everyday players. Even most of their good young players (Lawrie, D'arnaud, Gose, Rasmus, Morrow) were all acquired via trade.your pal,
ebrian
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