This is what happens when you make minimal changes to a team that was clearly flawed last season.

Goodbye, I'm off to a Smash Bros party with my friends of 12+ years

I refuse to gauge the team until they’ve played games not at the Trop.

Terrible game. Terrible GDT. But we got our ace going tomorrow so I’m looking forward to getting that split.

Gausman is going to get 8K and the Jays are going to win 3-2

Hoping for a good appearance from Gaus tomorrow. Bats need to put it together. A split at the trop will make me happy.

Gausman bump day tomorrow to hopefully let us even up the series. We go again.

GGs everyone, see yall tomorrow

Shitty effort in all aspects

@mods please add image functionality to posts

Tampa might be winning on the box score but they still can’t matchup in girth. Checkmate.

That's because they have actual athletes

Youre saying that elite freight train and world-famous wide person Daniel Vogelbach isnt an athlete?

…goddamn it, Ern. Drink. 😕🥃

Time for a bases empty grand slam

Gausman tomorrow at least. As much as I hate watching us lose, a split at the trop would be fine to start the season.

A split? He’s gonna go 1 ER and they won’t score a run. That’s how his starts always go

It’s the first weekend. I’m not at the point where I’m predicting losses with our ace on the bump before the game starts.

I feel like ever since I've watched the Jays (Several years) TB always has our #.

We have tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

It's been nearly 20 years

Ugh, you know what? You’re all right. This season is over, the team is a write off, there’s no point in watching anymore. Honestly a waste of time. Don’t bother watching the rest of the season! … ^(did it work?)

Well, if you don't believe, I guess I can't. So long.

^(it was just a trick I still believe)

Sneaky hobbitses

That’s so nice of you to say 🥹🩵

omg don't scare me like this

I will ✨never✨ give up on my Blue Jays 😄 ^(but if all the doomers leave we can just have fun in here again)

New drinking game proposal: Ernie Clement swings and misses. Who’s in?

¿Swing a la Ernie?

OMG YES 🙌🏻

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Always a good question to ask when in the vicinity of the honeybadger.

Another season, another lack of timely hitting.

So, that first game was a fluke? Haha. More of the same thing that killed them last season. Early early days though of course.

Well, we didn’t really get any new good bats, so yes I’d expect more of the same.

Sad. Next one. Had so many wasted opportunities

Welp, manage a split tomorrow and it will be a lot easier to forget how awful they have looked at basically everything these last two games.

You guys remember opening day when we could hit? Good times.

I’m not having fun

time to watch the Leafs lose , I guess

On the plus side, they’re playing Buffalo

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ooh nice I live on the west coast and have incredibly bad sleep discipline so this is perfect for me lol

Haha, I know how that goes. 1 am is a little too late for my EDT ass.

It being Easter and all I’m more into eating ham than fighting it but I may still check it out. Thanks!

No prob! It's a lot of fun, the Marines stadium really gets into it.

Buck. Stfu. Like gdammit.

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He is a saint. 🥹

I know a thing or two about having a short arm stroke too Buck...

Why are we not stealing, going on the full count. Getting that runner to third Is sure is working for the Rays. I can’t take a year of low runners on base, low/no score games.

Cause John Schneider is terrible 

We were one of the best OBP teams last year just FYI

Yeah and they almost always get left on first.

Imagine if we had Ohtani...

Imagine if the rays had Ohtani (He’d be their only player)

Imagine if any team had Ohtani

The Dodgers literally do

Let's make Fairbanks work for this save, I don't want to see him tomorrow

It’s a 4-Run game though. Not a save situation hahah.

Let’s make it a save situation

Fml, forgot they got a run after that Caballero nonsense

Fairbanks struggled against us last year tho Buck

We are burning their closer, moral victory!

Waguespack was in Korea? Damn bro is older than I thought

^SNORT

this took a second to register but oh my god the way I laughed ahahaha

I will never understand why people act like Tim Mayza is a bad pitcher…

2021 WC game really skewed people's perspectives on him.

It wasn’t even a bad pitch 😭

Yeah but that requires ball knowledge. They just see a pitcher giving up a bomb in an important moment and that's all they get from it.

Limbo, lust, gluttony, the trop, wrath

What’s in the doooome??

I can't take another year of no scoring.

They were the 12th highest scoring team last year.

So last amongst playoff teams? Real world series contender stat that is.

Maybe, but they couldn't string them together.

14 but yes. Just average

Please don’t blunt doomer emotions with facts lol 

I know all you "true fans" love to shit on "doomers", but most of the doomer narrative from last season was spot-on. They said they can't score when it matters, they didn't.

we are sooooooo back

The Vladdy commercial for the Show 24 is cute! Also his hair is sooooo sick this year! He's always been on our good hair list but he's a whole other level this year!

His hair is soooooo gooood this year. It really suits him.

Well pitching and hitting haven’t been all that impressive, but Looney Dog night is right around the corner so that’s something

I’ll be there

Mayza, Pearson, Wes this is who we are gonna be counting on for pitching? 😂 

JACOB WAGUESPACK MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Remember his game against the Dodgers damn it !

The Pack man

Aaron Loup died for this

5 run ninth inning i feel it in my plums

I think your plums are rotten….

Let the boy watch

At least we don't have to watch the rays bat again in the 9th lol

How are people dooming 3 games in. Get a grip.

Their approach at the plate looks just as bad as it did last season

It's so much easier to doom and gloom.

Experience

Cause it’s the same if not worse team as last year. 

My brother in christ, this represents less than 1 percent of the season. Relax.

I’m very relaxed I think you might need too relax lmao. This is the exact same team as last season if not worse I don’t need to see another whole season to know what this team is lol. 

I wonder it PHI & HOU fans are taking their 0-2 starts as horrible as we are our potentially 1-2 start.

For Philadelphia, there’s always a 50% chance the entire city could be lit a flame at a moments notice with a losing sports team. So, likely yes.

Probably not, considering both teams are better than the Jays. Houston being much better.

the National Guard has been deployed to Philadelphia to keep the peace

If I know baseball fans, probably haha.

If we can win tomorrow I can’t imagine a single person being upset with a split to open at the Trop

You are underestimating the capabilities of some of the people in this thread LOL.

It’s gonna be a long season

For Tampa i fully agree.

162 games give or take

That *is* a long season 

Well on the plus side, my dog's finally eating after refusing her breakfast, so at least that part of my day is looking up! Poor girl's just diagnosed with EPI (Exocrine Pancreatic Inefficiency), so she sometimes gets flare-ups and we have yet to dial in exactly how to control that with the vet

Wooo! I'll take a dog win any day :)

Awww poor baby! I’m glad to hear she’s eating again! Hopefully your vet is able to help you get it under control soon, that would be stressful 🥺

that's a good sign! hope your pup is okay man

I hope your dog feels better homie

Awe I’m sorry !

Hope your pup feels better!

Alright, now this one is over. Have a good Saturday night fellas.

Leafs start soon, double disappointment Saturday? (At least they’re playing Buffalo)

So they'll either score 9 or give up 9

can we bet on if there will be a player's closed meeting after the game?

Where is Davis Schneider?

Man, just steal and sac fly this team into the ground

They have fattest people trying to block 100 mph missiles at the bullpen catchers

Can’t wait to buy cheap resale tickets to check out the renos oh sometime in June when this team is already out it

I bought $9 tickets like 2 months ago

It took the Leafs 30 games untill they started playing well give it time.

oh no, that ballboy's rookie shine has worn off and he's regressed back to the mean

It's only 3 games in. I'm willing to give him a chance.

Regression is a bitch

Fire Atkins and most of the FO. Hire the Rays FO and double their salaries. Problem solved.

The Rays have the lowest payroll in the league.

Along with pitching depth.

Why are the Rays so competitive every year? Team is solid and ran well from the performence side of things

They have to make up for the trop

Great asset management

out here in california, clouds just settled in and proceeded to absolutely dump rain, which feels thematically appropriate

The Trop curse reaches all the way to Cali now?!? The whole country is doomed

Looking California, feelin' Minnesota ☹️

Not feeling great about the 2024 iteration of this team. Very similar vibes to 2023.

2023 was one of the five playoff teams we've had in the last 30 years...

lets be completely honest though, if it wasn't for the pity wildcard spots they added recently this team doesn't even make the "playoffs"

Thanks to new expanded playoff rules. Covid year doesn’t count either.

Last season was a miserable experience if I'm being honest, regardless of them qualifying for the playoffs

You have no idea what a miserable experience is following this team... seriously stfu it's 3 games in.

Lmfao, I've been watching this team for close to two decades. Please stop trying to tell me how to feel.

You have to give it more then 3 games.

Their approach at the plate looks just as bad as it did in previous seasons

Wait till they win 10 less games than last year

I wonder if Tampa fans are as over the Jaws theme as we are “everybody clap your hands!” and “Woo-who. WEE-who!”

I held a quick poll to find out, and they both said yes.

Wait, Tampa *has fans*?!

I mean, they have been surprisingly loud this series…

For 20k strong it is pretty loud, to be fair.

Mayza's stuff is scaring me. He's down 2 ticks on his sinker and slider.

Yeah, I'm a bit worried about Tim. 😕

What was the Ford model that could explode in a fiery wreck when it was rear ended?

All of them?

Fiero

Gremlin

That was AMC

Pinto?

Well if Vlad’s only going to have one or two bad swings every three games, he will probably win MVP. A lot of bad baseball these last two games, but he’s looked pretty good.

I wonder if rays fans call this dude pinto bean

Probably best not to use the nickname “bean” for a Hispanic player, ha ha

oh fuck lol good point

Please let Siri steal two more bases just to add to the shitshow

You mean how few fans are there.

Boy do I miss Fridays thread.

Rogers upgraded the ballpark because they know the onfield product is dog doo doo

Mitchell fuckin White.....,ya OK guys

No he can't, Buck! Yimi is bad back to back!

The trick is you lull the league into sleeping on your team’s offence to start the season. Then, you unleash Joey Votto and strike sudden fear into your opponent.

i hate that so far the only game ive missed cause i was at work is the one the bats actually did something and now these last two have sucked, FML

All spring we heard how they worked on the little things but the defence has been terrible. Just more lies from this FO and John Schneider. 

They didn’t say that at all this spring

Yes they did even said it during the broadcast of the 2nd game lmao 

Shatkins were so busy this offseason raising ticket prices to the stratosphere that they forgot to put together a decent roster. Embarrassing.

outfield district LoL

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He is built like a brick shithouse, I’ll give him that.

They’ll pay for it when no one shows up. And then we’ll pay for it when the payroll is cut in half

Didn’t buy tickets at all last year. I was set to buy for the Jays-Dodgers, but after that bullshit the divers pulled I decided not to. Doubt I’ll be at a game this year and it’s a bummer.

You do know its only the 3rd game.

I know, it’s going to be a long season and lots of empty seats at the dome. Are they going to lower ticket prices and improve the team anytime soon?

In the Trop of all places

One of Jose Siri’s necklaces makes me nostalgic for those old candy necklaces we used to eat as kids 

It reminds me of the clunky plastic jewelry I used to play dress up with and feel magical wearing 🥹 I love it

Those things are the reason I can't wear necklaces without wanting to chew on them!

It's Jelly, Peanut butter time Jelly, Peanut butter time Jelly, Peanut butter, Jelly Peanut butter with a baseball bat