Submit your questions for my next mail bag!

Let's talk out just what on earth is happening with the Blue Jays, shall we?

The words I wrote when asking for questions the last time I opened up the ol’ mail bag, all the way back in May, are staggeringly — yet unsurprisingly — as resonant now as they were then, I think.

I honestly don’t know what to say about the turn the Blue Jays’ season has taken over the last week, beyond, like, “they’re a very good team going through an awful stretch at a time so inopportune that could ultimately prove seriously costly when all is said and done.” But I do know what I don’t want to say.

I don’t want to say nothing could possibly be wrong here. I don’t want to scold anyone for being completely understandably frustrated. I don’t want to write some grand, flowery piece where I construct a bunch of straw men only so I can knock down their arguments.

But I’ve got to do something! My job, after all, and the thing many people very generously support me in doing, is to comment on the club and the conversation surrounding it. And I think the best, and simplest, way to do that is with a dialogue. What the hell is going on with this team? What do you think? What needs to change? What do you want to know about how I see it? Would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

And so, here we are. It’s mail bag time!

We have fun, don’t we? What a season!

Anyway, leave me your best thoughts and questions in the comments on this post and I’ll answer them early next week — hopefully after a Jays series at Fenway in which they don’t completely embarrass themselves.

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