John Farrell has finally left Toronto for Boston

John Farrell has finally made it official that he is moving back to Boston to manage the Red Soxs and now he can actually be with his family as he had decided to leave his wife and kids in Cleveland while he managed the Blue Jays in Toronto. So now as the newest bench boss of the soxs he can move his family to Boston after the school year is over and they can be one happy family again. It feels like if Farrell knew that Terry Francona was going to lose everything right after Farrell left Boston where he been the Soxs pitching coach at the time he would of never left to become the Jays manager at the end of the 2010 season. So Francona began having problems at home in the 2011 season and took his eye of his job and the players took complete advantage of the situation and fell apart with a 7 and 20 September and went from a sure bet playoff team to losing out on the last day of the regular season. Farrell name was linked to the vacated manager's job in Boston by Boston media with no help from the Soxs organization when Francona was fired as beer and chicken wings ruled the Soxs clubhouse late in the 2011. So after a year speculation about when not if Farrell was taken the job it has finally happened and with Bobby Valentine going into Boston and making a complete mess of things Farrell can now come in on his white horse and clean slate and take over and team that will first go head to head with the Yanks in the off season in the trade/free agent market with open checkbooks to build a completely new team for Farrell to work with. This situation looks to have hit its boiling point when when Alex Anthopoulos, the Jays GM was scheduled to join Jeff Blair a talk radio show host in Toronto on Sportsnet radio 590, the fan Friday which had been booked in advance and then the show was phoned Thursday and told it would not be happening. Blair with his connections to the Jays as a baseball writer as well tried to find out what happened and was told it simply was not able to happen even though no trades could be made at this time. So now the Jays on the other hand have been counting their money waiting for the free agent market to open up some they could be out to the store and buy something they really wanted and more importantly start talking seriously to other GMs about their roster players for trade. Now the top two spending teams in the American League are going to the same stores and talk about the same roster players the Jays want but have open checkbooks and really do not care how much they spend unlike the Jays. In the end Farrell is happy, the Jays are looking for a new manager even though they have their eyes probably on certain guys already, and the Soxs and Yanks may of just ruined the Jays holiday season. AA is forced to get deals down and that is the worst way of dealing Tom Mehegan

Omar Vizquel application night was shocking

For a team like the Jays who received very good crowds and got almost 2.1 millions fans and same playoff teams would have wet dreams about that many fan in the stands (A's and O's). The Jays also did not have very many feel good stories compared to all the bad one's like Brett Lawrie and a helmet, Yanul Escobar and eye black, John Farrell is he going to Boston or does he like AA or even does he have any control of the room, and Jays pitchers lining up to Dr. Andrews. The good stories are Casey Janssen (who knew he was a closer), Edwin (the power is back), the rookies (will see in two to three seasons) but the best story and most complaining story was Omar Visquel who under what we expected from the Jays this season Vizquel of not come even close to the playing time he got and would of gotten his 37 hits in his 61 games as a Jay. So I walk into the Rogers centre tonight season finale and I am thinking Jays win they at home this season and they did 2-1 in a lets get out of here as soon as possible because all most everybody with exception of Jason Frasor who wife is from Toronto and may have kids in school and Twins starter Scott Diamond from nearby Guelph may stay for a visit before going somewhere else everybody had a flight to catch and were not waiting around. So with no AD time or promotion almost 20 thousand showed up including me to wish Omar a good retirement most likely see U in the Hall in five years but I did not know this I heard that Omar would be playing tonight and it was a nice touch that he was on the cover of the program. I was completely floored that some how Lawrie 13 jersey had Vizquel on the back of it (his Indian #) and Vizquel's 17 had Lawrie on the back but other things were simply weird like having a video of Omar and then having him throw out the first pitch and that was it. It looked like at the last second the Jays realized that people were showing up to say goodbye and they put together the quickest and simplest things possible and looked and felt classless not given him something to take home with him other than a ball as he has been collecting balls for a while now after every hit he gets he keeps the ball. He did get Omar chant i.e. the Jose chant ie the O lay chant with a great standing O for his final at bat in the seventh right after he caught a ball over his shoulder as he headed towards the outfield and the crowd cheered and then they played a song signaling something great just happened. With two outs in the ninth inning with the Jays up 2-1 John Farrell went to his bench for Mike McCoy and took Omar off the field to a standing O and it continued after the game and when he was interviewed by Barry Davis on the field and and even hall of fame chant went up and some simply did not leave from around the Jays third base dugout. Brandon Morrow k'd 11 sleeping Twins with 5 in the first two innings and 4 in the three inning and he had 2 in the middle innings of his 8 inning performance as he gave up a run on 3 hits with 3 walks and for some reason Casey Janssen was not brought out to get his 25 save of the season instead Brandon Lyon's picked up his first of the season. When I said in 0-0 game that someone needs to score so everybody can catch their flights Anthony Gose proptly answered with a triple and was cashed in by Rajai single and he stole second and then with Hechavarria at the plate Raji scored on a hit and run for all the scoring in the third inning. If the Jays were smart they would of put maybe a tenth of the effort they put into the Yankees series they would of had 35-40 thousand at least Tom Mehegan

Kelly Johnson hits a homer and tied the Jay strikeout record

The Jays took game two of three from the Twins and behind a great performance from Chad Jenkins 4-3 who pitched on three days rest as he replaced Carlos Villanueva who was shut down and missed his last start of the season and maybe as a Blue Jay as he is a free agent in the off-season. Chad Jenkins pitched into the sixth inning and had shutout the Twins on three hits and was up 4-0 and then in the sixth inning Jenkins gave up a pitch to Denard Span who smacked a two-run homer to cut the lead in half and he left the game with no outs in the sixth so he pitched five plus innings and he gave up two runs on 5 hits and a walk but did k two Twins. Arron Loup came in and settled down the game as he gave up a single to Ben Revere and picked him off at second and then quickly retired the side in order and Revere got picked off by Darren Oliver in a 4-3 Jays lead. Casey Janssen came into close the game and only gave up a single to Matt Carson on his way to quickly finish off the Twins for his 22nd save of the season and helped Chad Jenkins win his first game as a starter. Kelly Johnson did something very good as he hit a two-run homer in the fourth and then in the second he did something nobody wants to do and that is getting k'd and it was 159 time being k'd this season matching Jose Canseco for the most times being k'd in Jays history. Rajai Davis singled in the first run of the game in the third and Yunel Escobar singled in a run in the fifth inning. Anthony Swarzak pitched five innings for the Twins and gave up 4 runs on 5 hits and three walks and then the Jays were only got a single hit off the Twins bullpen. Brandon Morrow will be trying to get his 10th win of the season and will be going against a Diamond from Guelph Tom Mehegan

Jays make a big comeback against the Twins in front of a couple of people

The Jays got were down 4-1 to the Twins after five innings and thanks to a mistake by Twins Trevor Plouffe in the sixth inning when he played a double play ball off the bat of Adeiny Hechavarria with the bases loaded with one out and he throw home to cut down Brett Lawrie instead of getting the inning ending double play. The Jays got an extra chance with the bases loaded and Jeff Mathis came through with a two-run double to cut the Twins lead to 4-3. The Jays got a five for five night from their first basemen as Adam Lind went 4 for 4 with two RBIs and was replaced by Mike McCoy as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the seventh inning after a RBI double to cut the lead to 5-4. Yan Gomez came into the game to play first base and he came up with two outs and on a 1-0 pitch crushed a solo homer to send the game to extras in his only at bat of the game and it was his fourth homer of the season. In extra innings Brandon Lyon came in for the tenth inning and immediately got in trouble as Chris Parmelee doubled off him on a 0-1 pitch to start the inning and then Lyon hit the next batter Alexi Casilla but Matt Carson bunted and Jeff Mathis throw out Parmelee at first for a key first out of the inning. Then with one out Lyon walked Denard Span to load the bases and then Lyon buckled down and got Drew Butera to pop up to Kelly Johnson at second then did what he has done all season long as he k'd Pedro Florimon to end the inning and it was his 83RD of the season. The Jays had a little problem in the bottom of the inning to win as J.P. at the plate and Adeiny Hechavarria at second he strike out but the ball got away from Drew Butera and Drew Butera hit J.P. in the batting helmet with the ball and it would of scored Hechavarria would of scored the winning run but the home plate ump called J.P. out for running out of the base path for out number two. This call by Marvin Hudson was correct call but John Farrell still came out to argue the call and was tossed but in the end Anthony Gose came through with a two out RBI game winning hit and all of this in front of the lowest crowd of the season at just over 12 thousand. The Twins got a performance from Trevor Plouffe who had a 2 for three night and his two hits were very important as in the second inning he erased a Jays 1-0 lead with a two-run homer and then in the third inning he doubled in a run and finished with three RBIs in the game. Jays crowds of over two million fans were amazing this season Tom Mehegan