Where do the Blue Jays play? Last I heard it was supposed to be Buffalo.
Will anyone miss the Marlins if they don’t play again this year? Or next year, for that matter.
That is still the current primary plan, though they’re planning to play some in other cities, too (see @dalej42 's note upthread.) They’re currently in the midst of a four-game series against the Nationals in Washington; the first two games (yesterday and today) are home games for the Nats, but tomorrow’s and Thursday’s games are to be “home” games for the Jays.
Dang! Shit Joe Kelly, ends a bad inning with a tease. Bench clearer!
I get a blank screen. Trying for 3 days. Laptop, Win-10, Firefox. All other tabs work.
ETA. With Chrome, now, I get a panel asking to accept cookies, apparently not supported by Firefox. Special cookies required only for viewing Standings.
Well, hope they’re ready for tests every four hours. 
. I’m with Kelly. The whimpering lip thingy was hilarious. And it’s hard to speculate if his pitches near the heads of other batters were intentional. He sucks, then great, then sucks…
Because you are in their home TV market. It’s the same rules as all the other clubs. Presumably, you have a cable or other TV channel that shows Blue Jays games, both home and away, in Canada. The idea of the MLBtv blackout is to force you to watch Blue Jays games on that provider, because they have paid for the privilege of being the official team broadcaster.
It sucks, but it’s no different than all the other teams. At least you only miss one team; I live within the blackout region of three teams, two in the AL and one in the NL.
If the Jays play in TB or NY or Philly, they are not playing in my home market. They won’t be all year in fact but I’ll give MLB a pass when they play in Buffalo. That wasn’t the case in previous years, I could watch their road games. I don’t have cable and haven’t for nearly 20 years, that’s why I subscribe to MLB.tv I’ll watch other teams but Blue Jays are my team and I won’t be able to watch ANY of their games.
I could watch after the game on replay but it’s not quite the same. Nate Pearson is making his debut tonight against Scherzer. Pondering whether to control urge to listen the radio broadcast and watch the game tomorrow or even very late tonight.
That’s true, but the game is broadcast in your home market. And is, therefore, blacked out for you on mlb.tv.
And that’s why you can’t watch the Blue Jays.
I’ve always liked the idea of re-aligning to five divisions of six teams. These divisions are reasonably natural except for the “Southeast” one, and that’s at least contiguous - i.e., you could draw a perimeter around the teams in it without overlapping any other division’s territory:
Northeast: Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Orioles, Nationals
Southeast: Pirates, Indians, Reds, Braves, Rays, Marlins
Great Lakes: Blue Jays, Tigers, Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins
Midwest-Mountain: Cardinals, Orioles, Astros, Rangers, Rockies, Diamondbacks
Pacific: Mariners, Athletics, Giants, Dodgers, Angels, Padres
I think you mean Royals instead of Orioles there, since you have them in the Northeast already.
Seems really weird to break up Cubs/Cardinals and Mets/Braves, as well as putting same-city teams in the same division. Also, what do you do with the playoffs?
D’oh! Of course…and my favorite team, no less!
I could consider swapping the Cardinals with the Twins, but despite the historical Cards-Cubs rivalry, it seems more natural to "rival-pair the Cards with the Royals and the Twins with the Brewers, since the re-alignment I propose is mainly geographical. And by the same token, with geography as the main consideration, it makes no sense to split up the same-city pairs.
As for the playoffs, the five division winners plus the three best non-division-winning teams as wild cards make a field of eight playoff teams. Seed according to win-loss record, division winners as seeds 1-5 and the wild cards as seeds 6-8, even if a wild card’s record is better than a division winner’s.
Sorry I’m late, but Happ was the first Cub to homer in 2018 and 2020.
In 2019 he started the season playing for AAA Iowa.
Orel Hershiser got off a good one at Altuve last night after Altuve struck out looking with a runner on in the fifth.
Hershiser: “Guessing is harder than knowing.”
But as Mr.Greenjeans noted, the game is still broadcast in your home market. When the Orioles play in Seatlle, they are about 2500 miles from their home market, but those games are still blocked to Baltimore-area viewers on MLB.tv because a local Baltimore TV channel is broadcasting the game in Baltimore.
Right, but the cable companies and TV stations know this, and it’s why they pressure MLB.tv to maintain its blackout rules. They’re trying to make sure that you do, in fact, sign up for cable if you want to watch the Blue Jays. It sucks, but they have the financial clout to get their way.
Well, of course, if you could buy non-blackout viewing rights on MLB tv, then why would ESPN or local sports networks pay anything close to what they pay for MLB rights? MLB would have to jack up MLB tv costs significantly to make up the money on that. For instance, NFL Sunday Ticket is $400 if you want out of market games and RedZone channel.
This weekend’s Blue Jays / Phillies series in Philadelphia is a casualty to COVID; three Phillies staffers (but no players, at this point) have tested positive for the virus.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/30/phillies-staff-members-test-positive-coronavirus-workouts-canceled
For God’s sake. Cancel the season.
The Canadian government’s refusal to let the Jays play at home looks smarter every day.
Rumors that the Blue Jays and Nats will play over the weekend. May as well, they’re both there and the games need to played anyway. It’ll make the make up games mess easier
We all know the standard post-season formula in every sport is some form of elimination tournament. 16 teams compete to reduce to 8, to 4, to 2, to 1 champion.
This year we’ll do the same thing, just using COVID tests rather than on-field performance to do the winnowing. Right now there’s 32(-ish) teams. Within a few weeks there’ll be a lot fewer. maybe even zero. Last team standing wins the pennant.
Maybe they can make a special trophy for this year with lots of spiky things sticking out of it. For darn sure the record books on 2020 are going to be full of spiky *'s next to most (all) of the data.