In a perverse way, hiring Valentine may have been a brilliant success. It may have accomplished the goal of 'cleaning up the clubhouse', albeit in a very nasty way, by detonating a bomb in it.
I think you're reading a bit too much into the lifeless thing. The Yankees also looked that way and now they are back to life. The Jays' sparkplug, as such, will be Lawrie when he gets back. But what their season really rests on is the big guys in their starting rotation.
Of course not...umps are only human...bad calls are part of the game...the bad calls go both ways...they even out over the course of the season...etc. etc.
The technology is here for accurate ball and strike calls but it's more fun to let the men in blue guess and f*** up...
No question. Hanrahan f***ed up large.
But to me it's two separate things. The ump blew a call that would have ended the game with us winning. Most of the time that gets called a strike. He had already called a worse pitch a strike in the same at-bat. It irks me.
Horrible blown save by Hanrahan. Also horrible blown call by the ump on McLouth. Hanrahan struck him out to end the game and the ump blew it. MLB Gameday clearly shows that pitch #5 called a ball was better than pitch #1 called a strike. Clear, indisputable evidence that the ump f***ed us.
I went to a school where you could buy a Doubie for a Buch, out by the Dumpster. Of course you had to keep an eye out, Lestah cop or school Lackey be on patrol. :joke: