Carole Jay from south of the border e-mails today about Gose showing spunk when he pushed the catcher and earned three days suspension, reflecting exactly my thoughts. It was that lack of spunk or indeed any fight from the Jays at the weekend that stuck in our craws.
They rolled over for the Red Sox and that is not what the fans want to see. Sure they can be outplayed, Red Sox have a $150 trillion line-up, and should be walking away with the division, but at least show some fight. Boston had an excuse jetting into Toronto at 6.30 a.m. on Friday after that nightcap in New York but it was the Jays who were sleepwalking through the series.
One day, we hope when both Lawrie and Snider and maybe Gose are on this team we will see some of that spunk. From this perspective I feel they lost that spark when Davis was taken out of the leadoff spot. When he was on base you knew something would happen. When and if Escobar gets on base you pray that Patterson does not mess it up and hold until Bautista gets to the plate.
That was fine when Jose was in turbo groove, but the last week has shown that Jays need more than a one-dimensional attack. Put Davis back at leadoff with Escobar at second and move Patterson to the bottom three. Right now the attack ends at number four in the line-up or maybe five if we are lucky.
Yet another big series for the Jays now with the Orioles in town. You know that Baltimore see this as an opportunity to push Jays to the bottom of the division for good and are quite capable of sweeping the Jays here the way that both teams are playing.
Ozzie Jay reckons that may not be catastrophic anyway to see the Jays at the bottom. Her reasoning is that it might force management’s hand to do the house cleaning that the majority of the fans want to see. Goodbye Edwin, goodbye Juan, goodbye Jayson, and horrors goodbye Aaron. Kyle you need to learn to pitch, and Vegas is the spot.
Blow the team up and bring in the new guys to learn on the job. What would there be to lose when they are at the bottom anyway? And most fans would prefer to see the young guys with spunk trying than to see Edwin pop up or ground into a double play for the thousandth time, or Hill pulling the ball into the third base coach for the umpteenth time, Nix striking out etc etc…
It will not happen, but it is therapeutic for the fans to think about it.
AND speaking of Snider, his seven hits in the two weekend games did not go unnoticed as his teammates in Toronto were grovelling hitless. Way to go Travis, we can’t wait to see you back
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