10 negatives to the Jays 2013 first half

The Jays who came as the favorites to win the World Series have falling flat on their faces with a 45-49 which is the worst record since 2004 at the all-star break meaning that teams with the likes of Vernon Wells, Alex Rios, A.J. Burnett, Lyle Overbay had a better record than this so-called team. Here are 10 reasons why: 1. Plays not made which goes far beyond their 58 errors meaning an outfielder going back to the wall and sticks out his glove and the ball just misses it and it is a triple and winning run is on third, or dropping a double play ball and getting only one out and they put up runs with their extra outs, or not putting your body in front of a wild pitch/passed ball and a tying runner or winning runner to move up. 2. Josh Johnson has one win on the season in a contract year and it has to be one of the worst seasons with all that money on the line even Melky and Bartolo had all-star seasons before being PED'd. His wife may of put her dislike of coming North for her dislike of how much money her husband has thrown away this season. 3. Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey were supposed to give the Jays solid innings and they do eat up inning going through 6 or into the seventh inning but even if the knuckle ball is not knuckling if the Jays battle back and get these two a lead they should be able to put up a few zeros in a row instead of given the lead right back which they have been doing all season. 4. These starters including the flake Brandon Morrow or the hard luck kid J.A. Happ along with any other starter not named Esmil Rogers has not gotten that ball to the pen in the seventh or eighth with led because the Jays leading they are something like 32-0 going into the eighth the lead. 5. AA's rash decision making like Sean Nolin may 24 against the O's 1.1 innings into the game with 6 runs on 7 hits and he is sitting trying figure what happened, Brett Lawrie brought up after two games and 7 at bats of a rehab stint just to come up and not be able to catch up to the major league speed. Then their is Ricky Romero who pitches to low A ball in one games and is brought back and goes throw a major league lineup once well and then falls apart completely and AA has no clue what next to doo with Ricky but if he rushes Marcus Stroman to the majors it will be what kllls his career in his home country. 6. Players believing they are bigger than the team i.e. if Jose Bautista yells at a ump or even looks at a ump in the second have I may have to throw a shoe through my TV or J.P. Arencibia not able to take constructive criticism and go off on former ball players as the reason he can not block the plate or get on the same page as his pitchers. Brett Lawrie may need to take a step back because even though he is Canadian he does not own that clubhouse and he needs to allow other to run things. 7. The k boyz of Colby Rasmus (105 ks) and J.P. Arencibia (98) are way ahead of anybody else oon the team along with their all or nothing swings kill rallies more often than not. 8. The bats do not show up on a nightly bases as they have been shutout 6 times and lose a lot of low scoring 1 and 2 run games and had a battng average of .220 earlier this season and that can not happen. 9. Jays are 25-21 at home which is brutal as they should be at least winning 3 of every 5 home games if not 2 of 3 it is their home and should be clubbing their opponents at home. 20-28 on the road could be closer to .500 but u set your reputation on your home turf and that makes a poor team good and a good team great. 10. Casey Janssen has sat in that Jays bullpen not getting a sniff at a save opportunity and if the Jays gave him more chances they would be a much better team and Janssen would be at the all-star game instead of Delabar. Pre-all-star Jays sucked mightily and it does not look better in the post-all-star game world Tom Mehhegan