So how are the former farm system saviours doing this year for their new teams?
Blue Jays, 2013 edition
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This article embodies much of the eloquence, wisdom and maturity...
That is absent in the sophomoric Public Relations Machine that defines the Blue Jays...
Slick Mad Men conning us that the Edsel is "great" (I'm looking at you Jerry Howarth)...
Sadly, a product of our shallow times... and a pale substitute for Greatness.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/08/09/toronto_blue_jays_sad_season_of_2013.html
That is absent in the sophomoric Public Relations Machine that defines the Blue Jays...
Slick Mad Men conning us that the Edsel is "great" (I'm looking at you Jerry Howarth)...
Sadly, a product of our shallow times... and a pale substitute for Greatness.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/08/09/toronto_blue_jays_sad_season_of_2013.html
The article is actually a large, rancid pile of pseudo-philosophical garbage posing as a sports editorial and saying absolutely nothing worthwhile or even intelligible, while reveling in its own adolescent vitriol.
Somehow I don't think he read the entire article. The conclusion being a team needs time to gel. With the bad start, a ton of new personalities and injuries to key players when have they had time to do this.
The solution proposed of "blowing up" the team doesn't address this issue.....it adds to it.
ZSP......if you're going to make a point, at least try to bolster the agruement withsomething that doesn't subtract from it........
1. Please explain specifically how they "blew up the farm system".
2. Where is this so-called "OFFICIAL BLUE JAYS POSITION" published or declared?
3. If they say "Nothing wrong", why would they say they "don't know what's wrong" ? (this clearly makes no sense)
4. Is insulting people (AA, Gibby, Blue Jays fans, other posters, etc.) a fair or even mature way to express your opinions?
In your next post, you even take a shot at Jerry Howarth. God forbid that a broadcaster should try to put a positive spin on the ball games and ball team he is broadcasting. Wouldn't want people to enjoy listening to the ball game or anything, would you.
Please go watch some baseball, learn a bit and come back when you at least have some basic knowledge about what you are talking about.
Thanks
Loved reading that. Only 8 posts per year for you but that was worth waiting for.
Hope I don't disagree with you on anything.
So you admit to not watching the jays a lot since '95, but you vociferously prattle on about their mistakes and weaknesses as if you have a direct pipeline to the club.
Riiiiight.
Why would watching the previous 2,963 games be helpful in any way...
As opposed to watching/listening to the last 115 games of a completely re-built clusterf*ck?
Your post is a world-class LOGIC FAIL.
Frankly, I feel sorry for anyone who suffered through the Ash/Ricciardi eras...
Most people had better things to do... as they will when NFL/NBA season starts.
You said you hadn't watched the Jays since '94, that's ~1000 games, not 115, and then you go downhill from there. yopu just showed you suck a basic math as well, keep up the good work.
Actually after Halliday left several players told reporters, confidentially, that he wasn't a very close teammate. He often kept to himself and concentrated only on his preperation.
No not really news, but the original point was that he could be a unifying force on the team. With that type of personality I don't think a player can unify a team.
I suspect there are many guys who just look on it as a business, show up and do their job. I wonder if a lot of this rah-rah locker-room buddies stuff isn't made up for PR.
A lot is genuine. Lawrie, Kawasaki are really exuberant. Bautista EE Reyes also but a little more suttle. There are definitely guys that work at the game as a business and controlled emotions.
