Yesterdays newspaper

Well it was a day or 2 early, or was it about 5 years too late, but GM J.P. Ricciardi was fired by interim Presdient Paul Beeston.
The the Jays took the field, sleepwalked through the first 5-6 innings, then a rain delay, then a minor comeback attempt, and head to the showers.



The meeting arranged by Jays team reps Vernon Wells and Aaron Hill was to clear the air about the Cito Gaston article by Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal. It was clear there was substance to the story, but the origin was unclear.
Unless you realise that the story came through a US media source, and not the local scribes like the Globe's Jeff Blair, or the Sun's Bob Elliott. What is likely is the story came through comments made off the record, or strategic slips by the now former GM. Maybe drag a few guys down with you, kick a little sand, toss a little mud. It's not like this story came from BJ Ryan, or ex Yankees Hinske, Burnett, but more from the guy waiting at the gallows for the bottom to drop out.


This season has been such a disaster in so many ways, tell me, how bad does the Gord Ash era look to you now ? J.P. was close once, in 2006, but the team was a mere 12 games over .500, so an off year in the AL East, for sure.

All we can hope is a complete revamp of the front office.

Memo to Rogers ( from all the fans )

" If you want our business next year, sell a major share of the club to RIM, have Beeston hire a new President, and make sure the budget allows us to keep Halladay, sign Jason Bay, maybe Eric Bedard, and for heavens sake, let's get a GM with some previous success, not just another numbers cruncher, who reads about some colleges kid who walks 150 times a year"

One more article about the Jays, and that will be it until there is some news from the front office.