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TELLING FIGURES 50 Number of home runs the Jays had hammered out last season after 38 games. This year, the total has dropped to 24, which ranks 11th in the AL ahead of just Oakland, Kansas City and Minnesota. 3 Number of starting pitchers since World War II who have won their first six starts of any season with an ERA lower than the 0.81 of Cliff Lee, the Tribe's Game 2 starter tonight. ... [link]

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Griffin: Unhappy Stewart looking like odd Jay out
Published 5/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Griffin: Unhappy Stewart looking like odd Jay out Look what I can’t do!...Don’t let me do it! Here is a man in crisis. From a personal standpoint, Stewart needs to play and succeed in order to re-establish his major-league career, if he is to have one more free-agent contract in him. The hard truth is, it ain’t gonna happen here. “That’s the hardest thing,” Stewart agreed. “The reality of it is that this role that I’m in, I’m not doing anybody any good right now. I’m not doing the team any good. I’m not doing myself any good. It’s like, what am I going to do next year? ...

Joe Inglett? Seriously?
Published 5/12/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Stoeten) at Drunk Jays Fans
... Far be it from me to actually agree with Richard Griffin, but these are increasingly puzzling and frustrating times in Blue Jay land, and while I might normally have taken Griff's piece on Shannon Stewart's unhappiness, with its hints at clubhouse malaise, to be another steamy helping of soft serve ice cream (flavour: mud monkey) descending slowly into the squirming face of this organization, I'm starting to come around to the idea that maybe it's OK that black helicopters seem to follow John Gibbons everywhere he goes. Maybe he really is stirring the sauce a little too ...

Baseball Today: Tuesday, May 13
Published 5/13/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... (Houston Chronicle) . . . Shannon Stewart says his current situation with the Blue Jays "is like a bad dream" (Toronto Star) . . . Mark Teixeira had to leave last night's game ...

But More Than Anything Else I'm Sorry For Myself
Published 5/14/2008 by hugo at Bluebird Banter: Front Page Posts
... Yesterday's Sun had a long article on Shannon Stewart and what has been an extremely difficult season for him. Stew's cri de cour: ...

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