Back Leg Line Friday! | Blair and Barker Full Episode

Jeff Blair and Kevin Barker open up by previewing the Jays’ weekend series against Minnesota. Twins Senior VP and GM Thad Levine joins the show to discuss his ballclub’s play up to this point and the improvements made by Canadian infielder Edouard Julien. Later, the guys open the Back Leg Line with fan questions before being joined by Blue Jays skipper John Schneider who talked about Yimi Garcia’s status, tonight’s lineup and much more!
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0:00 - Twins/Jays Preview
11:05 - Thad Levine on the Twins & Edouard Julien
29:45 - Back Leg Line
49:06 - John Schneider on Yimi Garcia, Davis Schneider & More!
1:20:01 - Back Leg Line Continued
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[@AndrewMcleod1234]

It's been tremendous listening to Jeff Blair protect his job . Hey , you know what Ross Atkins is good at ? Great Job Jeff !. How is the organization going to blame all of this on Vlad , I wonder ?

[@JustMeELC]

Nailed it sadly! Atkins can NOT be allowed to make one more move or he'll set it all back more than a decade & trade Vladdy like he obviously intended to since day one seeing as he never once talked to him about his contract since the day he came up 🤬 And Rogers propaganda wing will work to distract & sewer Vladdys reputation to make their incompetence & wreckage somehow ok 🙄 Rogers allows this to happen it ultimately will not end well for them & I doubt they get it all back again smh. I know I'll be done after decades... not up for much more insults or witnessing such unnecessary destruction 😡

[@AndrewMcleod1234]

@JustMeELC I'm a jays fan and want us both to be wrong . But I don't think so here . It's been a really frustrating few seasons here, including the Gaslighting. I've had enough!

[@JustMeELC]

​​​Been a fan since 1st day team existed & I wanted to be wrong the last couple years more than you can imagine... but daily it's even more clear we are right! I still hold on to hope rogers doesn't let it happen & scream about it everywhere, but I've seen this playbook more than once... did the same thing to Edwin & sadly too many in our fanbase are clueless & will eat up the bs they spout as they sewer his reputation... & it makes me beyond sick sigh. Can't watch or listen to this propaganda disgrace anymore. It makes me sick & have decided if Atkins doesn't go & Vladdy does, so do I... that's the line for me 😡 Can't suffer anymore insults, bs, or further unnecessary destruction 🤬

[@jdiv9073]

Anyone else notice the weird tension between them lol

[@teebar8476]

Firstly, I love you guys! This is just for some snarky fun. What if J.S. went strictly by the numbers, forgetting family names, forgetting all the narratives about their potential... and sent anyone hitting under .200 down to Buffalo. It sorted Manoa's ego out. Just sayin'.

[@JustMeELC]

FIRE ATKINS NOW! PERIOD FULL STOP!!! Schneider will be his fall guy but Atkins can NOT be allowed to make any player moves & destroy what's left for decades! I guarentee, & it doesn't take a brain surgeon, this will not end well for Rogers or their emplyees bottom lines if they don't stop the destruction & remove Atkins ASAP!!!

[@allforoneandoneforall]

I'm starting to believe that this is a setup (stock market short selling at it's finest) -- Atkins has sucked the life out our team -- I'm talking about the position players, by changing the culture/energy into what Corp. big wigs and I mean season ticket holders and some fans who can't handle that baseball is supposed to be fun. So bringing in dull serious people energetically in hope that will change Vladdy, so what's the next best thing? is to make people be okay with not signing Vladdy and or Bichette is to have a lack lustre team so that people are being mentally prepared into letting go of those players. Because of the close relationship between Mark and Ken Rosenthal, Rosenthal should never had written that piece on the Jays as it screams what direction they want the fans to lean towards, which was clearly substantiated with what David Sampson said on your show this week. The vast majority of fans are intelligent enough to know how the media is used to sway ideas and hopefully in their favour. I believe they got rid of Teo and Lourdes because too many people were complaining that they were exhibiting playfulness which has been misconstrued into meaning that our team is not serious/professional enough for their liking. The truth is the more people are in a state of some playfulness the more productive they will be, a happy employee is a productive one as with being acknowledged by the front office in this case. People/fans have to stop projecting their own ideals onto other people, just stop it. Humans must learn to step into their Integrity always each human must hold themselves accountable and stop blaming others for the choice they have made; good or bad. Atkins made this mess now he or another must clean it up. let people be who they are meant to be and of course this means the players must learn to accept the differences of one another and learn to work together as one within those differences. Atkins has depleted our Farm System that they said would increase our depth in reference to A.A. who depleted in order to get price and etc., to take us to the next level; which he did. A lot of what Atkins has brought in has failed, he brought in great pitchers with a cost and therefore they must fix the triangle in order to protect our Team in otherwards, we are missing one side of the triangle and IT has tipped over. To make a great team we must have the big 3's PITCHING/DEFENCE/OFFENSE Vladdy and Bichetted must stay, We need to do better for our great pitchers and our ownership Atkins owes this to them and to me and our fans. I've been a fan since 1985 and that was a good year; in fact that was the year that got the Skydome built in the first place, I was at that losing game with the rain delay that Henke sat too long and lost his vim and we lost the game.

[@jamesreckling6697]

3-6 over the next 9 is most likely. The team will be sellers.

[@JustMeELC]

Atkins can't be allowed to make one more player related move or it only gets worse & he'll set it all back a decade plus 🤬

[@JustMeELC]

For all those eating up the bs spin & trying to excuse GM & front office... they have not constructed a good roster, not put players in the best position to succeed, & have made incompetent moves & trades etc then arrogantly refused to address the obvious problems created by their error, doubling it down & making it worse! If Atkins isn't fired & not allowed to make even one more player move, he will destroy it all setting franchise back over a decade 🤬 Enough is enough smh

[@JustMeELC]

STOP IT 🤬 Have NOT TALKED TO VLADDY about his contract ONCE since the day he came up 🤬 NOT ONCE even though he has been clear he doesn't want to play anywhere else 🙄 So it's 100% NOT about not being able to sign him... they have NEVER TRIED smh This bs spin makes me so sick I can't even listen anymore ugh