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 If there ever was a question what this Blue Jays team's biggest weakness is, it was answered in dramatic fashion this long weekend. The Jays lost 2/3 in a series against the league leading Milwaukee Brewers, not a ton of shame in that but the way they lost was frustrating. They followed this up by losing the first game against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday in equally frustrating fashion. The way each of these losses came should cause Jays fans to question this team's ability to go on a deep run this season, as unfortunate as that might be. Lets get into some doom and gloom:  Brewers Game 1 I was at this one! The idea behind rallying a crew to go to this game was the Jays are in first place, playing the first place team in the NL with Shane Bieber making his home debut. I thought it had all the elements for an immaculate vibes game. Coming into the stadium, it definitely lived up to it. People were buzzing on the way to our seats with lets go Blue Jays chants starting early. B...

 We're going to sidestep most of the panic in Jays land today and continue the Steelers roster overview I've been doing. I'd be silly if I didn't address it a little bit though. Jeff Hoffman has had a rough month or so here and it's definitely cause for concern heading into the playoffs with no clear option to replace him as closer. Giving up 4 runs in the 9th inning against the bottom of the Twins order is pretty pitiful, and a heartbreaking way to lose. I mean he gave up the tying run on the first major league home run of Mickey Gasper's career, a guy hitting .154 this season. Brutal, we have no choice but to let him figure it out I guess. Anyway, the Steelers defense looks banging, lets summarize it here:  Defensive Line Depth Chart: Cameron Heyward, Keeanu Benton, Derrick Harmon, Isaiahh Loudermilk, Yahya Black, Logan Lee, Daniel Ekuale, Esezi Otomewo This was actually a sneaky weakness of the Steelers last season, and they spent a decent amount of resources...

 The Season is right around the corner and it's time to go over the Steelers roster! I thought about just recapping the moves they made and going from there but as I started I was realizing that I was about to cover every position and instead I should just do an overview of the entire roster. In this post I'll go through each of the positions on offense and talk about the team's moves then I'll give my thoughts on how I'm feeling about the position group. Tomorrow we'll do defense then Thursday unless something crazy happens with the Jays I'll go around the NFL talking about some moves I thought were interesting.  Before I get into that, this is way too short for even a random thoughts post but last night Nathan Lukes was up with the bases loaded and a 3-1 count. The pitcher missed the plate inside and low for what should've been a bases loaded walk, but the umpire blew the call and called it strike 2. On the very next pitch Lukes hit a  2 run double, th...

 I just noticed as I signed on today that this is my 200th post on here! I can't believe I made it to pumping out 200 of these without even really thinking of advertising or optimizing it, but here we are. If you've read a good amount of these, thank you! That's pretty cool, I'm just some dude with a lot of sports takes that I wanted to get out somewhere and this has been a nice vehicle to do it. I appreciate the love and encouragement for sure! Now to the point of the post, the Jays had a pretty exciting series win against the Marlins this weekend. I'll qualify this with saying the Marlins are a very young team, especially on offense, and that showed up in some of the Jays pitching performances this weekend. Still though they are scrappy and annoying, almost like a lite version of the Jays offense this year and it made for some fun baseball. The only game I missed was the one where they lost, so we won't be talking about that much. Lets get into it:  Bieber Fev...

 This is a quick post today, and it's not something that I haven't done before I just think it's timely given the game yesterday. All off season, fans and myself were hating on the Jays front office. We wanted Juan Soto or Roki Sasaki and got neither. This made the fanbase, and myself, overlook the moves the front office did make bringing in real contributors to winning. I'll save some of the other guys for another day, today the focus is on Myles Straw and Max Scherzer, two guys brought in this offseason without much noise and two guys who won the Jays a ballgame last night.  Myles Straw I'll be the first to admit that I hated this move when the Jays made it. To be fair to myself and the fans, the Jays were coming off a season where they had the best defense in baseball, only to have nobody hit anything making the defense useless. At this point of the offseason, the Jays already missed on Juan Soto which bummed the fan base out to a significant degree. It was ok th...

 Wow today for the first time in a while I actually have a few genuine random thoughts that aren't big enough for their own post but are definitely worth thinking. It helps when the Jays game was fun last night, despite the loss. Lets get right into it! Bobby Webster is the Head of Basketball Operations  Some Raptors news in August! This one came through yesterday morning as a nice surprise. After the Raptors let Masai Ujiri go in a move that I came on here and hated on, they said they would be looking for a new president of basketball operations to work alongside Bobby Webster as the GM. I thought that sounded discouraging. Bobby had been around for a while as the GM and if Masai was going to be let go, I was hoping we'd keep some kind of stability at the top and just let Bobby run the ship. Yesterday they announced that Webster will be the Head of Basketball Operations and they will stop their search for a new president, at least for this season. My initial reaction was good...

 Hello everyone, been a while! I took both Thursday and Friday off last week because Thurs I had a half day where I was going to the Jays game and Friday was Friday. With that in mind, I have a lot of Jays stuff to catch up on which is perfect for  a quick Monday post! Side note here, the stadium is rocking now. Every game is sold out in Toronto and the energy is immaculate. Ticket prices are going up but the experience is as well, love when the city starts to vibe like this. Ok lets get into it: Vlad Guerrero Jr. is Clutch (I was Wrong) Yum, humble pie! I've already come on here and talked about how Vlady is heating up and getting some extremely timely hits. That post I made about the "Flu game" had a whole section apologizing to Vlad. I have to come on here again and say sorry once more right off the top though. Vlad's been on a stretch of doing whatever it takes to will the Jays to wins, and it's been so exciting. On Thursday against the Cubs we got a real pitc...