So this year's chapter on the Toronto Blue Jays is officially over. They finished the 2006 season with a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees, capped off by Adam Lind's two run shot in the eighth. The Jays finished in second place with an 87-75 record, their best since 1998.

But the season was still a disappoint in my eyes. They finished 10 games behind the Yankees, and 8 games behind the wild card winning Detroit Tigers. As I've mentioned in past posts, I don't really care about finishing second in the division. This team was built to suppose to challenge for a playoff spot, for the last 2 months they didn't. Now I'm guessing we'll start to hear again, the fans and media, saying 'if only Burnett and Chacin were healthy the whole season, it would have been different'. Sure they might have had a better record if the Jays didn't have to send Josh Towers, Casey Janssen or Ty Taubenheim out there, but Burnett and Chacin didn't improve the Jays standings (games behind) when they both returned from injury. Injuries are part of the game, good teams step it up when a quality player goes down. The starters didn't do that.