Some Kind of Hot: Eleven Straight and Round Two with SOSH


Ok, sure. Much like the Blue Jays this weekend, I'm giving the people what they want.

I actually slept through most of this game (team nap style) but I've watched highlights.  Also, when these people get really low, it's not that funny anymore. SOSH is the richest when the team is almost good but somehow just doesn't win.

This team, at least the way they are currently playing, is not almost good. So I was a little worried before diving in. But there were still some nuggets.

Eric Estrada vs. EdRo - don't miss it.

It's Erik Estrada, jackass.  As if this dude would spell his name with a "c".




This musty smell has me all congested. I'm going up to get some fresh air from the ledge.

Sometimes some of them are self-aware. It's disquieting.

I will break things if Edro gets lit up today. 

Well....
Rodriguez had only given up one run in his last three starts. He gave up a few more today.

Game starts....

Tight zone today. Both of these a little off the plate but you'd like to get a call on one of them.

Much like complaining about "lean years" when your team has three rings in 15 years, complaining about the strike zone is obnoxious. They just have no clue.

Estrada has a history of giving up the Jack.

That's totally true. 

Fuck that


It's hard to even be mad. They just keep finding new ways to fail. It's almost impressive.

I think some of you will find a way to be mad.

SHIT ASS FUCKING SHIT FUCK

Like this guy.

Seems like we're paying for something.

That's just too easy. I'm embarrassed to make a joke here.

Fuck it, I blame Farrell for that.

Dream job. I've decided that I'm not even mad at Farrell anymore. I just think the Jays should've been given the opportunity to fire him. And they were robbed of that.

SHIT FUCKING SHIT MOTHERASS FUCKER MCGEE COCKSUCKING SHITDOG RAT ANUS MACFARLANE SHITTY TITTY FUCKAROONIE MCFUCKSAUCE ASSHOLE FUCK

It's easy to get this angry when you think the baseball gods owe you something. I'm coining "Red Sox Privilege" right now. That was the same guy as above, btw. 

Rodriguez didn't get that call in the 1st.

Red Sox Privilege.

I didn't realize a new 22 inch wide plate was going to be part of the effort to speed up the pace of games.

Privilege.

I mean the team is shitty but really it seems like the baseball gods are rubbing our faces in it.

Because it's not like anything has gone Boston's way in the 21st century.

I've never hated the Jays. Certainly not like Tampa or the Baltimore Showalters--- but they are trying my fucking patience this year.

Aw, they noticed us. 

I hate this fucking team


I think they might hate you, too. 

Character-building inning here

A lot of character building the past two weeks. 

Then Pedroia lost a ball in the sun.


Head for the exits, fans.

Welp, this was a fun series.

I know! So much. 

Thank goodness this is such a weak division.

Yeah....


Well there's your price of admission entertainment right there, Fat Panda running out a triple!

Pillar was a little scary on that. It was not a good look. 

This game has been a clinic of suck

A Clinic of Suck: the 2015 Boston Red Sox.

I'm actually quite serene today. This latest loss-to-be doesn't bother me. And as far as Farrell goes, I just don't see where he should take the blame for the incredibly bad product that has been put on the field. He probably will, but with the exception, perhaps, of some misguided input, he isn't responsible for this mess.

Serene.

I am only watching this game because I don't own a ball peen hammer that I can use to pound myself in the head.

Not serene.

How are they treating this on Sportsnet? Or is it just talk of how the Blue Jays offence is unstoppable?

Pat Tabler is really concerned. I think he might actually cry.

I think I'm done.

I just...

They broke this guy. 

I just don't understand this How is the manager not responsible when an entire team plays fundamentally bad baseball? Plays way below their norm? Not just one player, not two players, the entire team. For the second straight year. If that is not the manager's responsibility, then he literally has no responsibility and he's just a figurehead.
 
This might be the SOSHian version of "FYRE GOBBINS!!!!" Pretentious and a little self-important. 


This is exactly what I was worried about -- not just that we would suck but that another team in the division would get very hot while we sucked.

There's a lot that's good on this Blue Jays team and it's hard to see them reverting to a .500 team the rest of the way. 8 game leads in June aren't exactly stone cold locks, but the path back for this team at this moment seems very very narrow. 

Baseball is so hard, guys.

Does anyone remember why we let Danny Valencia go? The guy has always crushed Ls and could play 3B, 1B and LF.
 
Don't be trying to subject that nice boy to this shit show. You let him go, now let it go.

It's like raaaaaaaaaeeiin on your wedding day

That was for all my homegirls ( @catherine0626 and @mererog) who were tweeting about Jagged Little Pill. I`m not sure how any of this is ironic, but I'll allow it.

OK - two slams and it's tied.

That's the spirit. 

Well, shit. PAPI!

David Ortiz hit a 3 run homer and tied Stan Musial and Willie Stargell for 29th on the all-time homer list. I actually don`t hate Papi, and don't mind him hitting homers in losing efforts. These people, naturally, will go back to hating him in a few hours.

Okay, so how many of those runs are they about to give back?

A fair number. The Jays nap together and bludgeon together.

The Red Sox are going to let the Jays get back into this game, aren't they?

I don`t want to be cruel....but yeah, looks like. 

Pillar is just on fire this weekend. Wish we had outfielders like that.

Both Goins and Pillar had pretty fantastic weekends. Goins drove in five in this game, including a three run homer.

“The only word to describe it is fun,” Goins said. “Scoring runs is fun so it’s one word to describe the series.”

This team scored 31 runs in the sweep. Bludgeoned. Fun with bludgeoning. 

This is the worst pitching staff ever.


I sense it's less fun for some people. 

Well Farrell, it's been real. Thanks for 2013, but you're about to be the sacrificial lamb for Ben's idiocy. He'll be joining you shortly. Nearly everyone knew that Panda would be a mistake


Everyone? That's not quite how I remember it.

Just invoke the mercy rule and end it.

In a minute....

That's the ballgame, that's the series, that's the season.

That's the stuff.

This series was seriously fun and the Jays have won 11 straight, tying a team record. No other team in the AL has won 11 straight so far this season. 

“We’re some kind of hot right now,” sais Gibbons. “We scored a ton of runs this series. We’re just playing good baseball.

“It’s a good and it’s a long lineup and we’re feeling good right now, we’re hot. When your hot things go your way. It’s a good feeling in there and everyone’s confident. It was a fun series."

Yes. Yes, it was.