Goin' Back-to-Back

It looks like Halladay's back to normal, shutting out the good-hitting Mariners in a complete game effort on Sunday. Not only was Halladay spectacular but so was the offense, tagging 8 runs on 10 hits versus a very good Mariners' pitching staff. But to be honest, the Mariners did make a stupid mistake in the fifth inning to blow the game wide open for the Jays.

With first base open and 1 out in the fifth, the Mariners chose to intentionally walk Lyle Overbay to load up the bases for Alex Rios... how dumb is that? Yes, it does set them up for a double-play-- but Rios has only grounded into 4 double plays all season. Rios is by far Toronto's best hitter, and the M's definitely knew that, so why load up the bases for him? That's so stupid! Haha, I love it! They paid for it, obviously, when Rios knocked in 2 with a single to left and Glaus knocked the next pitch over the wall for a three-run homerun.

Any team that loads up the bases intentionally to any Jay with power is just stupid.

Now that we've established that the M's are retarded, lets talk about a more eerie note... the Jays just had back-to-back shutouts. The last time the Jays had 'em back-to-back was in 2003, when Josh Towers had a 1-0 shoutout over the Tigers, then the next day Halladay had an 8-0 shoutout over the Tigers. Not only that, but Halladay allowed only 3 hits in both. Isn't that creepy? No, you're dumb.

Bait Worm

We all knew this day would come, but the Jays are reportedly thinking about using Josh Towers as trade bait. Don't get me wrong, Towers has great stuff, so he could be traded pretty easily to one of the many, many teams looking for a 5th starter to add to their rotation-- but shouldn't we keep him around? Honestly, he's saved our asses a few times this season when a starter went down with an injury and we needed a fill-in.

On a totally different note, A.J. Burnett was usually the pitcher that Josh Towers replaced in the rotation becuase he was injured... oh wait! That isn't a totally different note! What makes Gibbs think that Burnett won't be injured again? Well, with Towers traded and Burnett down, who's gonna fill-in? Hmm? Yeah, that's what I thought-- you're a dumbass.

If we trade Towers, that would screw up our roster like crazy. We need a different catcher, and a different shortstop would also be nice, so shouldn't we trade him for one of those? But no! We can't because if a pitcher's injured we need somebody to fill-in, so we need a pitcher. But if we trade Towers for a pitcher, wouldn't that be kind of stupid? Yep, it would.

Now if we trade Burnett we could have a solid rotation like we do right now without him, and have another player, like a catcher or a shortstop at hand.

Halladay
Marcum
McGowan
Litsch
Towers

Not bad without him, is it? I thought so.