5 Thoughts on the Toronto Blue Jays - Game 5 Playoff Edition - HOLY MOLY

HOLY BALLSHITS!  Words (outside of HOLY BALLSHITS obviously) are probably going to be rather difficult for me to come up with to describe what happened tonight, but I'll do my best.  I went by myself (Yeah you don't need to tell me I'm a loser...I already know) to game 2 back on Friday and that was the most fun that I ever had at a game and that was NOTHING like tonight's game!

I think I lost 20 LBS, my voice, bent my wedding ring and went through a roller coaster ride of emotions that would make a teenage girl jealous!

5 thoughts on Game 5.....Here we go!

1. Jose Bautista is a God Damn Rock Star!  For Real.....not for fake.  I know this is gonna sound cheesy, but the Home Run he hit tonight is the greatest thing I've ever seen live in my life! As soon as it left the bat I think everyone in the building knew that he hit it out and we had just seen and been a part of something special.

I have been home now for 4 hours and have done nothing but what re runs of Jays in 30 and I just caught myself throwing my hands up in the air again as the replay showed the ball going out!

2. The Rangers gave that game away!  The Bautista home run doesn't even happen if the Rangers make 1 of 3 routine plays in that 7th inning that lead to Bautista coming up.  With that being said the Jays took advantage of the mistakes and that's what you need to do when someone leaves the door open.

3. Maybe now Gibby will get some credit from Joe Average Blue Jays fan!  Leading up to the game 5 all the talk around Toronto primarily surrounded Gibby and how he handled David Price in game 4 and how things were going to shape up with the bullpen in game 5.  Well now it looks pretty clear that Gibby had a plan, he executed it and it worked.  I'm not sure if most people will even acknowledge it, but with using Price in game 4 it allows him to be the Game 2 starter, if he would have been used in game 5 tonight it would have been game 3  or 4 before we saw him start.   What do I know really....this could have all be different if Aaron Loup was available!

4. Roberto Osuna was DIRTY!  Striking 4 out of 5 and blowing away most of them with heat, K'ing the two guys he inherited in the 8th and keeping his cool through it all was impressive as all sin!  Over the course of the year I was open to the idea of Osuna being transitioned back into the starters role for 2016, but I want Osuna to be the closer for the next forever!

5. Chris Colabello and Kevin Pillar aren't going to get the credit probably as much as they should for their contribution in this series, but both guys played unreal!  Great defense and their bats were arguably the two most reliable ones over the course of the 5 games.

Honorable Thought!

The crowd at the Roger's Centre tonight was UNREAL!  YES it was Unreal.  Yeah I know about the mess that happend in the top of the 7th.....I was there and it was embarrassing, but the actions of a few in that inning aren't going to skew my view of the fans at the game and how special things were.  The crowd was loud and into every pitch!  Now I know we are Canadian and we have trouble catching baseballs that may have been hit into the crowd, but we are Passionate and we love our Baseball and I think we showed it in game 5.

Me and 50,000 of my closest friends on Front St. after the Jays Game!