By TSM
Here’s your drive lineup for your listening enjoyment this am:
On 590 with Greg Brady and Jim Lang:
720: Jeff Keeping
740: Ken Hitchcock
820: Ken Rosenthal
840: Pete Sampras
On TSN radio with Mike Richards
7:00: TSN 2 Simulcast Begins
7:30: Bob Marley – Just For Laughs Comedian
OUT TIME: 7:42
7:45: Bill Paul – RBC Canadian Open Tournament Director
8:15 – Two Scotty’s – MacArthur/Ferguson Talking Blue Jays
OUT TIME: 8:25
8:30: Steve Rapp (bet365) and Les Murray (President of Toronto’s Festival of Beer) – Live In-Studio
8:45: Mayor Rob Ford’s CFL Picks
TSM
The “Evil Jerry Howarth” made an appearance on the morning show during the TSN2 TV hour. I’m guessing he’s probably a little more honest and pessimistic about the Blue Jays chances than the real one, or most of the others on Sportsnet.
Every time the Jays lose another game I think back to the night of the Jays-Marlins trade when Scott Ferguson said this on 1050:
“I don’t see any weaknesses on this Blue Jays team now”
Well in his defense, no one expected the starting pitching to be this horrible. If they had that and everything else was the same, they’d be in contention.
Arencibia “melts down” on Twitter, and apparently calls it quits. Good move.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2013/07/23/blue_jays_jp_arencibia_melts_down_on_twitter.html
But Ferguson didn’t say they have a good chance to contend………….he said that they have absolutely no weaknesses…………big difference there……………and he said it at the time of the Marlins trade, which was well before they made the Dickey trade
It was hard to say that starting pitching was a weakness for the Jays before the season started. I mean, if you’re looking at the 2012 stats of Dickey, Morrow, Johnson, Buerhle, and Happ.
Not 1/5 has lived up to expectations (or come close really. Maybe Buerhle).
When the “no weaknesses” comment was made it was before they got Dickey…………at that time their starting rotation was Morrow, Johnson, Buerhle, maybe Romero, and maybe Happ……………do you see any weaknesses there?……………well, the Jays obviously did because they traded two of their best prospects for another starter