The 2019 Toronto Blue Jays and a Proposed Jays Trade - by Moses

Proposed Trade

From the Toronto Blue Jays;  Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Teoscar Hernandez to the Chicago Cubs for;  Jose Quintana (LHP)

As a result of the trade this is what our Jays look like;

Manager - Charlie Montoyo

Pitching Staff

1.  Aaron Sanchez (RHP)
2.  Jose Quintana (LHP)
3.  Marcus Stroman (RHP)
4.  Clay Buchholz (RHP)
5.  Trent Thornton (RHP)
6.  Sam Gaviglio (RHP)
7.  Joe Biagini (RHP)
8.  Tim Mayza (LHP)
9.  Thomas Pannone (LHP)
10.Dusty Isaacs (RHP)
11.Derek Law (RHP)
12.Ryan Tepera (RHP)
13.Ken Giles (RHP)

Batting Order vs Lefties

1.  Randal Grichuk (bats right - CF) 
2.  Freddy Galvis (bats both - SS)
3.  Justin Smoak (bats both - 1B)
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right - 3B)
5.  Brandon Drury (bats right - 2B) 
6.  Danny Jansen (bats right - C)
7.  Rowdy Tellez  (bats left - DH)
8.  Anthony Alford (bats right - LF)
9.  Billy McKinney (bats left - RF)

Batting Order vs Righties

1.  Eric Sogard (bats left - 2B)
2.  Freddy Galvis (bats both - SS)
3.  Justin Smoak (bats both - 1B)
4.  Vlad Guerrero Jr. (bats right - 3B)
5.  Rowdy Tellez (bats left - DH)
6.  Randal Grichuk (bats right - CF)
7.  Billy McKinney (bats left - RF)
8.  Danny Jansen (bats right - C)
9.  Dalton Pompey (bats left - LF)

Notre Dame - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

   
      We all saw the recovery in the name of donations after the famous French Cathedral Notre Dame caught fire.  Within 24 hours donations tallied $500 Million Euro.  What does this say of mankind?

  People seem to think that the Holocaust they're living under in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, among other Nations, are self inflicted.  Are we to believe that the Church Notre Dame is worth more than civilization itself?  This hypocrite oath that we live under in 2019 disgusts me.  Couldn't we focus on building up these aforementioned Nations instead of the current sentiment that dictates that their lives don't matter, and that we need to pay for the ultra-elites Tabernacle.

  What is needed is to be pro-active towards human healing.  Our youth buy into ideas that are passed on by their Parents and Grandparents.  The reality is that most people only care about their own ecosystem.  Many disregard human rights in their quest for success, and most are guilty of looking down on the downtrodden.  The parable 'to the victor goes the spoils' has been said of pretty much any war that's been fought.  Wasn't it the Nazi's that called for the extermination of Jews, Muslims, and Blacks?  Now we see Israel in that region in the World and they've become the aggressors against the Palestinian People in the name of Apartheid.  This is in a land that saved the Jewish peoples' hide in 1910-1915 by taking in 600,000 Ashkanazi Jews that were expelled from the U.S.S.R and taken in by Palestine.

  When Western Civilization comes to terms with its' narcissistic, me first attitudes we will see changes in the World.  Most people look down at a man who busks on the street to make a few bucks.  Likewise that of a homeless man who begs for change.  They site their laziness as reasons to look down on them, instead of wondering for a second what that person has to go through in the average day.  We've become an apathetic society in the Western World that has zero-rachmunis (Yiddish word for Compassion) to those that suffer.  

  While musicians stood up in the name of Band Aid, We Are the World, and Tears Not Enough in the mid-eighties, the staying power of the sentiment wasn't expanded on the way it should have been.  Why did artists lose their ability to communicate what an artist is supposed to communicate.  What's Going On?  Had musicians continued to bring light to the atrocities that are faced in the Fifth World we would be looking at a different scope.  The reality is that many people live with a hatred of Blacks in America today.  This is systematic to the States inaction to stop how Blacks are treated by the authorities, even in 2019.  'White Privilege' some would say.  It leaves one to wonder why this hasn't changed since it's authoritative policies in place.

  Is the Cathedral Notre Dame to be honoured? the answer is yes.  To be treated as more important than human life itself? No.  To be honest it's good to see people care, it's just that our priorities are way off kilter.  What about the good people that are out there indiscriminant of race, colour, and creed? 

The 2018/19 Columbus Blue Jackets - by Moses

  What an achievement.  Four in a row against powerhouse Tampa.  Down 3-0 in the first period against the Lightening, the Blue Jackets, led by much loved John Tortorella, stormed back into the game winning miraculously 4-3.  Now they enter the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals alongside the New York Islanders after sweeping their first round opponents.  

  Columbus was not expected to do anything these playoffs in most peoples' minds.  'The Cinderella Story' some may say was born the moment Seth Jones scored the Blue Jackets 4rth goal in their 4-3 comeback win of game 1 in which they were down 3-0.     

The 2018/19 Toronto Maple Leafs for the Playoffs - by Moses

  It looks like the Maple Leafs are going to tear right through rival Boston Bruins in their upcoming sequential battle on ice.

  Morgan Rielly clearly showed the Hockey World that he is one of the five greatest defencemen of today this year, posting Salming type numbers.  Tavares and Marner are Gold in the context of scoring big goals, 8 of which were game winning goals for Tavares through his journey of scoring 47 goals this year.  Auston Matthews is surely a big time goal scorer of our day.  Let's see what the playoffs have in store.

  We will see a revelation of performance from big time players Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, William Nylander, Kasperi Kapanen, Andreas Johnsson, Zach Hyman, and Jake Muzzin, alongside Morgan Rielly.

  Freddie Andersen is clearly capable of securing a big playoff win for the city of Toronto.  This would be huge for the hockey market of Toronto as Toronto carries clout Worldwide.  The Bruins are strong offensively but lack the Leafs depth to the third and fourth lines.  The question is really just which team will outscore the other?  If one of the main top two lines on either team gets hot, watch out.

  I choose Auston Matthews to lead our great Leafs to a triumph of magnitude.  Playing alongside Andreas Johnsson and William Nylander the Swedes will be up to the challenge.  With Marner and Tavares teaming to score goals at an alarming rate we may we potting 6 a game going into the series against the Bruins.  They're not so bad.