A Winter of Discontent

Crawford signs with the Red Sox, and they also dealt for long sought after Adrian Gonzalez, and oh, will have a healthy Dustin Pedroia, and Kevin Youkilis in their line up.        So who said we have a limited window in Toronto ? 

It just shut tight, and by the way, by the weekend they will be weeping in Arlington that Cliff"the mercenary" Lee signed with the Pin Stripers of New York.

The only team that should feel worse than us is Tampa, but they believe what is left after Pena, Crawford, Soriano and Benoit have departed is strong enough to compete.

C'mon man, they had a hard time scoring with Crawford and Pena in the line up, and they just dealt Jason Bartlett to San Diego for minor league arms, to pave the way for Reid Brignac and a career average of .260 and 9 home runs.         

Turns out Reid can play defense, and Bartlett costs more to boot.

Winter meetings just concluded, but the world of blackberries buzzes onward, and signings will cresendo just about the 1st week of January, when the money starts drying up.


That should be when the street sweepers of GM's come back out, looking for what the rich free spenders did not take, and like American Pickers, they will look for bargains.

Last year, the Jays got Alex Gonzalez, and he turned in 3 wonderful months, and I expect Anthopolous and TB GM Freidman will be like others looking to table scraps after the big boys are stuffed and waiting for spring training.

I will tell all you loyal readers that you can expect the Jays to grab one reliever, maybe long rumoured Canadian Jesse Crain, and who knows Russell Martin might opt for playing time and sign in Toronto, hey that would give us 3 potential Canadians that could break camp. Scott Richmond, Crain and Martin, maybe they can create a local identity on the Jays.

Martin is a long shot, and he may not be able to catch, and he has to sell versatility, as his bat has slid south of late. Otherwise, what the Jays have with the metriculation of youngsters in the pen, we have 95 % of the players, maybe 97 %.

If you are buying the Zack Greinke crap about Toronto, I am not buying it, and neither should you. He is both expensive and has not had success playing in eastern power areas like Fenway and Yankee Stadium, so why jump to Toronto and the middle of a street fight, where your guys have sticks, and the other guys have machette's. Not quite the fair fight, better to toddle around in the Central where non descript fans in KC, Cleveland, Minny watch you play with quiet mid western family values still are practised.

To those of you still buying the Rogers bullcrap, I am sorry for you, as some of you are probably Leaf and Argo fans too. 

As read from Shakespeare,

Richard III :


" Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this son of York;

And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. "

This winter may yet bring spring fruit, but expect bitter harvest...Jim McCullough,

The over under on Jays wins now stands at 79, sorry fans, a bleak house doth we now inherit......