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Series Preview: Blue Jays at Indians
Published 4/10/2009 by Scott at WaitingForNextYear
... for Rios and the Jays, he’s alright and is expected to suit up this weekend. - Designated hitter Adam Lind opened up the season with a six-RBI game.  Yesterday, he went 3-for-4 with a solo home run.  He’s currently slated to bat fifth, but it would not surprise me if the jays opted to put him in front of Vernon Wells given the way that the Tribe pitching has been sub par.  And yes, I’m being kind. From the Outside Looking In: Drunk Jays Fans Sports and the City The Tao of Stieb Bluebird Banter Next Up: 4/13 - 4/15 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City ...

Even Less Well-Informed than Last Season (2009 American League Preview
Published 4/3/2009 by noreply@blogger.com (Mets2Moon) at The Ballclub
... They're woefully unexciting and hopelessly buried behind the big 3. They have a very solid pitching rotation, even after losing Burnett, and that should keep them somewhat respectable. But an offense that features Vernon Wells and a horrible mishmash of over-the-hill veterans, middling utility guys and one hotshot rookie (Travis Snider) won't be able to hold up their end of the bargain. Another depressing season for my friends at the Tao of Stieb. ...

Super Duper Toronto Blue Jays Round Table Part 2
Published 3/31/2009 by Kman at Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio
... Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlueJayHunter Stoeten from the mighty Drunk Jays Fans. Website: http://www.drunkjaysfans.com/ RSS: http://www.drunkjaysfans.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Twitter: https://twitter.com/drunkjaysfans Joining the party for part 2 is the Tao. Website: http://taoofstieb.blogspot.com RSS: http://taoofstieb.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Twitter: https://twitter.com/TaoofStieb ...

Playing Pepper 2009: Toronto Blue Jays
Published 2/13/2009 by Cardinal70 at C70 At The Bat
... So what do we know about out friends to the north, besides they play in an extremely tough division and probably here a lot of "eh" jokes?  I talked to the Jays blog uniquely titled The Tao of Stieb to see how our old 3B was doing and how things were in the AL East. ...

The Drunk Jays Fans Guide To The Interwebs Version Two Point Ugh
Published 1/23/2009 by dustin.parkes@gmail.com (Dustin Parkes) at Drunk Jays Fans
... through Google Ads, and it will be riddled with boring clichés. TSN – Double Play I once stayed up all the way past midnight. It was almost as wild as the time I put both mayonnaise and mustard on a cold meat sandwich. I didn’t even wash the knife off, either. Vanilla is a spice too, you know. Drunk Jays Fans This shit jumped the shark sometime around July of last year, but at least the comment sections are always top notch. The Tao Of Stieb Imagine if you will, a wildly amusing blog. Then imagine that favourite DJF ...

Sharing Is Caring
Published 11/29/2008 by eyebleaf (eyebleaf@sportsandthecity.com) at Sports And The City
... It is, as The Tao of Stieb wrote in the comments, the "post of the year." The Ack left a gem in the comments section too, so make sure you check it out as well. ...

Beeston knocks our socks off
Published 10/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Ian H.) at The Blue Jay Hunter
... But for the meantime, Beeston will be the interim CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays as the club looks to find a successor to Paul Godfrey. Much like the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Jays are looking to past presidents to bring some front-office stability back to the club. Beeston reassured the media that this is only a temporary solution, but Cliff Fletcher also did the same thing with the Maple Leafs - and to date he is still the General Manager. I agree with the Tao of Stieb that there is a possible conspiracy to bring back every member of the Level ...

Best. Season. Ever.
Published 9/30/2008 by Lloyd the Barber (noreply@blogger.com) at Ghostrunner on First
... ever thought possible. Without the support of everyone that linked, commented, and read; that wouldn't have been possible. I want to thank and offer my sincere appreciation to all the good people that helped make this season a success for me: first and foremost the Reverend, Jesse BoBD and El Leal for their invaluable contributions, visible and otherwise. Rob & Kris for reaching across the aisle and the border, the Drunks, JW & the Southpaw, the incomparable Tao, Hale, Mohawk Chalk, Ian the hunter, the ...

Baseball Today: Monday, July 7
Published 7/7/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... Perennial losers? They're had winning records in 6 of the last 10 seasons. Cellar-dwellers? They've finished last once since Tampa Bay entered the league . . . and that was the only year the Rays didn't finish last in those 10 years. The number of seasons the Rays lost 99 or more games exceeds Toronto's total number of losing seasons since 1998. I mean, I understand winning for the first time is intoxicating, but let's be real here, shall we? Can't imagine our pal Tao taking this lying down. LOOKING TO BEAT THE SOX HERE, TOO: The ...

Hoops Addict Article - Expect Trades on Draft Day
Published 6/26/2008 by Blake Murphy at The On Deck Circle
... (10) Samuel Cassady (7) Stu Wilkinson (42) Tieja MacLaughlin (1) Trevor Smith (42) 888.com 888.com Baseball Blogroll All Your Base Are Belong to Rios Baseball Digest Daily Baseball Reference Bus Leagues Baseball Cot’s Baseball Contracts Drunk Jays Fans Fire Joe Morgan Ghost Runner on First Home Run Derby Out Of Left Field The Hardball Times The Mockingbird The Tao of Stieb Basketball Blogroll Arsenalist Ball Don’t Lie (Yahoo) ...

Adam Dunn Will probably not be a Blue Jay any time soon
Published 6/19/2008 by Goldy (noreply@blogger.com) at Chuckie Hacks
[image] According to several Blue Jays' blogs ( Tao of Steib , Drunk Jays Fans ) Toronto GM, J.P. Ricciardi is not a big Adam Dunn fan. Apparently, every Wednesday night, the GM takes phone calls from listeners on a radio show. Fans are fed up with the team's lack of offense and one caller asked J.P.why the Jays were not making a push for Adam Dunn. J.P.'s response was interesting to say the least: "What do you know about Adam Dunn? . . . Did you know the guy doesn't really like baseball that much? Do you know the guy doesn't have a passion to play the game that ...

Fashion Ump: Singing the praises of the '71 Angels cap
Published 5/16/2008 at Big League Stew
... by my man, Tao of Stieb.  It's been working out great, sparking lot of random conversations and questions on whether I'm from Toronto. (I've never even been to Canada. Sue me. ) ...

Link of the Day (For the Week of May 4 - May 10)
Published 5/6/2008 by Brandon Heikoop at The Outsiders Look at the Insides of Baseball
... A segment which about the best Jays blog article of the week, this week is The Tao of Stieb co-author of The Tao of Steib another Jays blog. Question, with all of these Blue Jays blogs and presumably needed audience, how do the Jays have such poor attendance? ...

Delgado Opinions Aplenty
Published 4/24/2008 by Peter Wade at Hot Foot
... Lots of Carlos Delgado opinions from every corner of the baseball world including our brothers to the north. At The Tao of Stieb in a post in-titled “Irresponsible speculation” they wonder if Delgado should come home to the Blue Jays. ...

LIVE AT THE HOSERDOME, APR. 3: ONE NATION UNDER THE PUCK
Published 4/3/2008 by sager at Epic Carnival | Where Sports and Pop Culture Collide
... right up there with, "She's shouldn't have been wearing that dress." It's good to know that this where my country's sense of right or wrong is headed -- red-blooded hockey lovers have free reign to act like hooligans, since hockey is all mom, hot dogs and apple pie. Goalies who would rather play goal than fight needlessly should have their sexuality questioned. Oilers fans in Calgary deserve to have their face busted. (Much obliged to Jes Golbez and The Tao of Stieb.) PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS? The best way for dealing ...

Sox Monster interview: 'Duk of Yahoo! Sports
Published 3/10/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster
... (Nats), Tao of Stieb (Blue Jays) and, of course, Red Sox Monster. Red Sox Monster: What about mainstreamers? Who do you read, and who do you avoid with a 10-foot pole? 'Duk: For mainstream newspaper blogs, they probably don't get any better than Peter Abraham's ...

The Tao of Cito!
Published 3/7/2008 by Magpie at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
... I came across the following over at the Tao of Stieb: Watching Game 6 of the 1992 World Series last night, it struck us that the great and knighted Cito Gaston had a propensity to make some bone-headed decisions. Cito inserted Jimmy Key into the game in the 10th, but didn't bother with a double switch which would have moved Key further down the lineup and moving the more defensively sure John Olerud into the field. Instead, Key was inserted directly into the lineup, which meant that he had to lead off the next inning. ...

TMS MLB Preview '08 - AL East
Published 3/6/2008 by Chip Wesley at Thunder Matt's Saloon
... in nearly 4 years. He did leg out 30 doubles last season. I'll just assume they were all ground-rule. Underrated, Like British Women: SP Dustin McGowan - People seem to have a boner for this kid. His numbers after the All-Star Break last year (3.67 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, and .217 BAA) definitely justify the "Prospect Priapism". FOR MORE READING All Your Base Are Belong to Rios Drunk Jays Fans The Tao of Stieb 4. TAMPA BAY RAYS 2006: 66-96 (5th) ...

Blue Jays Baseball -- Catch the Thrill!
Published 2/21/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
Filed under: Blue Jays, AL East, MLB Video, Toronto But don't take my word for it. Just view this old Toronto Blue Jays feature that is not only the most complimentary piece of television journalism ever produced, but also the most unintentionally hilarious. Enjoy. (HT: Tao of Steib)   Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

The Pujols Awards: Week 6
Published 2/15/2008 by John Brattain at The Hardball Times
... and The Tao of Stieb I’m going to try to keep writers and bloggers nominated for this award to a minimum (lest every blog post somebody disagrees with results in a submission). This week I’m making an exception for the above mentioned blogs for their unceasing and much deserved ripping of the Toronto Blue Jays for giving fans in Detroit and Boston first crack at tickets for April series involving the two clubs. This is a gross insult to true (powdered) blue Jays fans. These two blogs, in true Canadian style, have dropped the gloves and started swinging, blasting the Jays ...