A large haul

Well folks, if all Anthopolus needed was my previous caustic rant on the where the Jays were then mission accomplished.

I would have turned the heat up sooner, and we aould all be enjoying this fish fry.

Now 2 weeks before the next round of winter meetings, every other GM has to answer to his owner why he wasn't in on this deal.


Once again, the worst owner in baseball does it again, this is the 3rd such sell off in Marlins history. The current body count of 12 would make Tony Montana blush, say hello Tony to your new little friends in South Florida. 

I am sure Jeff Loria is still dodging reporters, spnsors, angry fans by ducking down alley ways, or wearing fake moustaches and trench coats. His secretary must be getting danger pay and also sick and tired of saying he is out.  If Bud Selig had his way, or the state of Florida, he would be too.

From the Marlins perspective, yes they crashed and burned in their new Atllantic playground last season, that tells me that God does not like multi coloured adorned houses of worship, or maybe God is a Braves fan.

On the opposite side of this ledger comes Josh Johnson, Mark Buerhle, John Buck, Emilio Bonafacio and Jose Reyes. To say we have street cred in the baseball community is not overstating the obvious, Vegas posted odds dropped from 100 to 1  to 15 to 1.  Gamblers see what they see, and smell possibilities.

Do I like this deal, what's not to like ? What did they give up I will miss. Nothing, I advocated a propspect package for ready talent 2 years ago.  Alex is now getting heaps of praise for this Miami heist, cue the Miami Vice music ( flamingos, jai alai, etc ) but if you folks out there think this is part of a well calculated plan, you are mistaken.

We are in year 4 of the re tool, after Halladay and Marcum were dispensed with. We are well behind the battle plans AA hatched out.  The time to strike was last off season, but we settled for a Sergio Santos deal, and recycled veteran relievers and thought we were set.  We were wrong and I said so.

A year of injuries, suspensions, bad press, but great ratings, butts in the seats, and a mangled clubhouse spelled to Rogers a full bore panic attack.  Time to spend, or at best take on payroll, so we sent out the boats, and made a huge haul.

Now let's see what else we can achieve, we have too many catchers that want to catch 100 games, and a left field and second base vacancy signs, and a bullpen not quite whole.

7 days before US Thanksgiving, and Black Friday, but the shopping wars have already started.

Will have another blog around the winter meetings, so perhaps I actually will need to buy a program to see who is still on this team.

I am back and I am pissed

Let's start off with how the Jays finished their season, shall we.

Horrible, limped home with no pride, no passion, going through the motions, if Farrell had not been sought by the Red Sox, I'd have fired his ass.

The Escobar thing was bungled by all the coaches and senior staff, and on his watch. Then Omar Vizquel takes a swipe at Farrell, and questioned his leadership skills and maybe his man hood, so John see how you make out in Beantown when the scribes watch you dot every I and cross every T.

Making matters worse, was this merry go round after the season, dealing Farrell plus a pitcher no less for Mike Aviles, who could have played second, but was instantly peddled with Yan Gomes ( and what did he do to piss off the team ) to Cleveland for Esmail Rogers, who is no as good as the kid we sent to Boston.

AA states this Rogers guy ( gee one wonders why Rogers gets a bad rap ) with no apparent track record is added either to the bullpen or the rotation ( he's failed miserably at either end ) because Carlos Villaneuva was dismissed as a starter candidate in early September by who...John Freaking Farrell, same guy who's high tailed to Boston.

So we pissed off Carlos, and what is our rotation looking like.

Okay ...Brandon Morrow is fine, so long as he stays healthy and does not blow his arm out
After that, we have an injured Rickey Romeo, ( I will save some print space for that later )
and who else ??

Happ is gone, and was he worth the trouble of 20 man super deal with Houston, I think not. There was a reason Philly gave him up, and we have learned it.
McGowan, don't make me laugh.
Hutch & Drabek are wounded for 2013....so nope.

I hear the crickets out there, c'mon people who is part of our rotation ???

Esmail Rogers ?   Brad Lincoln ? Henderson Al;avarez ?

Now we hear that Brandon Lyon and Jason Fraser are too expensive so we'll part company with them.

Sounds like another rebuild of the bullpen, but let's keep 40 something Darren Oliver.

Okay, then Farrell takes Lovello and Butterield with him, and we are starting an America's Got Talent roadshow looking for the next manager, and the name that crops up is Mike Hargrove.

On July 1, 2007, Hargrove resigned his position as manager of the Mariners, saying in a prepared statement that his "passion has begun to fade" and it would not be "fair to myself or the team" to continue. The departure was unusual, since the Mariners had been playing quite well at the time.

This is the guy ?

This team just spent money, and the balloons were sent tot he ceiling as Micey Izturis is now th enew Mike McCoy / Vizquel. $ 9 million over 3 years for adefensive replacement.
Then, in a move only found in a Harold Robbins novel, we sent cash, bags of to KC for Jeremy Jeffires, a twice suspended ( for drug use ) fireballer.  He has huge upside Alex is quoted, which likely is not in reference to his drug use.

If I was KC I would have sold him to the Rockies, cause at least in 81 home games he smoke up in the pen legally.

Am I bitter, you damn right I am, this organisation has become a joke, and they are making the Leafs and Raptors quite happy to take the heat off them.  By the by folks, Leafs still undeated this year.

Who is one 1st ?
The first baseman
No I mean who is on first ?
Yes he is.





You know I understand that old comedy routine better than I understand what the Jays are all about.

More to come.