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[ 19 ] July 16, 2011 | Erik Loomis

Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode……

I haven’t felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners used him to get Texas to up the ante for Cliff Lee.

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  1. Scott Lemieux says:
    July 16, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    Or how about the time when poor Joba Chamberlain had to pitch with the same bugs that everyone else had to pitch with for three innings? That was by far history’s greatest injustice. And as several of our commenters pointed out, it was logically impossible for Joba to have given up a run under any other conditions.

    I also blame people with binoculars for Colon being unable to field a ground ball.

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  2. efgoldman says:
    July 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    It is also the Blue Jays’ fault that Colon is big enough (but certainly not in shape enough) to play nose tackle in the NFL.

    The question is not: what has happened to the Yankees’ pitching staff. Its called regression to the mean. The question is: What contracts did who in the NY organization sign with what dark forces to get the half-seasons they got out of these guys.

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  3. Bill Altreuter says:
    July 16, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    I’ve lost track of the unwritten rules of baseball. There are so many.

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    • efgoldman says:
      July 16, 2011 at 2:06 pm

      And its taken more than a hundred years to unwrite them, too.

      So, its OK for someone wearing double-knits and a hat (Are the uniforms still double-knit? Damn I’m old.) on the field, in the dugout or in a bullpen (or not?) to steal signs, but heaven forfend there’s a camera in the center field wall?
      Its OK for a future HOF player, who just got 3000 hits, to fake getting hit by a pitch, when the ball hit the knob of his bat?
      The hidden ball trick is OK, right, because I’ve seen it. Although its harder with modren uniforms, which are often pullovers, so maybe we should unwrite it out, now.
      Its OK for certain left-handed pitchers (you know who you are) to balk on every throw to first base. But there’s also a written rule about that.
      Damn. I’m old enough to have seen Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle play, but I still don’t understand.

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  4. c u n d gulag says:
    July 16, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    Even as a Yankee fan I find this stupid.
    Colon had a great run for most of the first half. The fact that, fat as a pumpkin, you shouldn’t be surprised when he may have turned back into one. I hope not – we need him. But, I mean, he IS 38.

    BTW – my favorite for ‘choot-spah’ so far this year was Cashman this spring.
    After Pedro Feliciano got hurt in Spring Training, he bitched about how he blamed the Mets for “abusing” him by pitching him in too many games the past 3 years.
    Uhm, Brian, YOU signed him. No one had a gun to your head.
    And, DUH!, why do you think THEY didn’t sign him? Could it have been that they knew that they HAD abused him?

    Look, it’s like when you watched a buddy really abuse his car for the last 3 years – you can’t really bitch about it burning oil after you bought it off of him.

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  5. Brien Jackson says:
    July 16, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    This is nothing particularly new when it comes to the Blue Jays.

    http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/10/the-red-sox-think-the-blue-jays-are-cheaters/

    This has been another episode of “Let me Substitute Yankee Hatred for Knowing A Lot About Baseball.:

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    • Scott Lemieux says:
      July 16, 2011 at 2:13 pm

      Oddly, your immense knowledge of baseball has resulted in exactly no actual evidence — and speculation doesn’t count — being presented on behalf of this proposition.

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  6. Jim Lynch says:
    July 16, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    The Mighty Yankees, reduced to vacuous bitching.

    Up until now, I had Girardi pegged as an astute baseball guy. But WTF is this all about? You either have the other guys cold, or you keep your mouth shut.

    Then again, there might be a third way.

    I don’t know if it was intentionally done, but in Denver late last season Tim Lincecum mouthed the easily deciphered words: “What a fucking joke”. He was referring to a non-humidified ball that the Rockies had handed to the home plate ump when they needed to rally late in the game. It was discreet, and being so, easily disavowed as a whine. Yet, because it was broadcast during the final weeks of a pennant race, it forced MLB’s hand into policing the Rockies handling of their preposterous humidified baseballs.

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    • Scott Lemieux says:
      July 16, 2011 at 4:09 pm

      You’re missing the big picture. When an out-of-shape 38-year old who hasn’t thrown 100 innings in a season since 2006 gives up several runs in one game, the only possible explanation is that the other team is cheating. It’s inherently inexplicable, like Joba Chamberlain giving up a run or Derek Jeter hitting into a DP in a clutch situation.

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  7. Brien Jackson says:
    July 16, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    Also too:

    http://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Did-Toronto-steal-Mariners-signs-1178835.php

    Which is just to say that I don’t know if the Blue Jays illegally steal signs or not, but it’s not like this is the first instance of someone feeling that they do/might.

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  8. TBogg says:
    July 16, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Since everyone in baseball thinks Toronto steals signs the obvious conclusion is to blame the Canadians.

    America’s Hat is chock full o’cheaters!

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    • Bill Murray says:
      July 16, 2011 at 3:26 pm

      It’s why Bud Selig had to move the Expos

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    • efgoldman says:
      July 16, 2011 at 3:45 pm

      And the second most obvious conclusion is, always act as if there’s a runner on second.
      Ya’ know, its like the pitchers that always work from the stretch, no matter whether there are runners on.

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  9. efgoldman says:
    July 16, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Since this is a baseball thread in what’s often a political blog (courtesy Charles Pierce and his Hawaiian shirts):
    http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/15/mitt-romney-red-sox-fan-didnt-know-the-rays-have-a-dome/

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  10. David M says:
    July 16, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    My favourite part of the article is the way that they let each manager have his say, and then they came out and basically said that Girardi is full of it. Oh to have the political press try that sometime.

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  11. Xenocrates says:
    July 18, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Say what you will, but we are in the pennant race. Can your team say the same??

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