This Blue Jays season has been, in many ways, reminiscent of the last. Mostly in that there’s been a lot of bad baseball played. While the Jays started out in the absolute worst way possible last April before crawling back to the low-end mediocrity in which they would reside for the entirety of the season, […]
Author: Rachael McDaniel
September 10th, 1977: A Good Day for the Blue Jays
The Blue Jays have been struggling lately. You don’t need me to remind you of that. Let us instead turn our thoughts back to a brighter time. A better time. The year was 1977. The Jays were brand new, and they were god-awful. Like most expansion teams, the Jays put up an extraordinarily bad debut […]
The Curious Case of Omar Linares
The offseason of 1992-93 was a weird time for the Blue Jays. They had, obviously, just won a World Series, so things were on the whole looking pretty sunny. At the same time, they were losing many of the players who had made that World Series victory possible: Gone were Jimmy Key, Dave Winfield, Tom […]
An Offseason in Alienation (or, Memories of September 12)
Right before the winter began, my brother bought one of those big rubber tees to practice with. You know the ones: black, with a plate-shaped stand at the bottom and an adjustable pole sticking upwards. I think he’s probably used it once since then. The weather, as one could have expected, has not really been […]
Doug Ault and the Triumph of Joy
One of my favorite parts of being a baseball fan is the sheer breadth of the history that can be learned, the staggering number of huge immortal moments and small, glittering fun facts that come with being a fan of any team. Even a relatively young team like the Jays has magic waiting to be […]
Josephang Bernhardt: The Prospect who Changed International Free Agency
As the Jays continue to do a whole lot of nothing this offseason, seemingly content to watch the Angels add difference-making players every two days, I’ve found myself looking in my idleness at previous Jays seasons. I was, after all, not around for most of them. Lately, I’ve been considering the 1997 Blue Jays season […]
Totally Not the Jays Shop: The Incessant Wonder of Blue Jays Memorabilia
We now find ourselves almost a month into the offseason. The mood is dim. The skies are rainy. Worst of all, the Jays have given us little concrete to work with by way of offseason plans or substantiated trade rumors, and as a result, those among us who are responsible for creating Jays-related content are […]
The Ghosts of Blue Jays Octobers Past
The 2017 postseason has been going for a week now, and I’ve got to be honest with you all: it’s been a doozy. A real barn-burner. A raucous, rousing good time. Baseball’s best starters have been lit the hell up; there have been pitchers’ duels and crazy comebacks and unforgivable managerial blunders. It’s been pretty […]
The 2017 Toronto Blue Jays: A Drama In Five Acts
DENIAL Do you remember when you were excited for the baseball season to start? And, more importantly, do you remember the moment when you stopped being excited? For some of you, I’m sure, it was almost immediately – the first game of the season, when the Jays left 13 men on base, Jason Grilli gave […]
Remembering A Meaningless Game In September
On September 25th, 2009, the Blue Jays took the field to face the Seattle Mariners. It wasn’t their last home game of the season, or their last game of the season overall. Neither was it a game that had much in the way playoff implications. The Blue Jays, at the start of play, were a […]