Smokey

First of all, you're pulling unsubstantiated numbers straight out of your ass. Secondly, you're completely ignoring the importance of positional depth. You can "hope" all you like that the team stays healthy but the reality is that in a 162 game season you will have to deal with injuries. What's the contingency plan in case Lawrie or Reyes go down again? Oh that's right, there isn't one.

It's not really about me having confidence in them, it's about not agreeing with them sitting on the fence. You either believed in the team you built and improve on it, or GTFO and let someone else try to fix the mess. Saving a few million when you're paying MB and Reyes' backloaded contracts doesn't make any sense.

Let's not deceive ourselves into thinking that those two were the only options possibly capable of improving this team. Why can't the core perform????? Yes lets give them credit for assembling an inefficient team that they gave up on after just one year. Makes complete sense.

Which f***ing moron actually wanted a do over? The wonderful thing about hindsight is that we now know with certainty the aspects of the roster that the Fat Greek completely neglected, particularly the importance of depth. Yes the starting pitching is deeper now but the positional depth is still being ignored and HOPING for an injury free season when you're trying to compete is pretty foolish to say the least. Not to mention losing JJ who many thought could be the front line pitcher this team desperately needs. Another thing we now know for sure is that the division rivals aren't nearly as weak as many expected them to be last year. Going into the offseason the majority of fans admitted that significant improvements were needed in order to have a realistic chance of going far into the playoffs. Now we're left HOPING that everything works out and that's not realistic in a 162 game season. I honestly don't see how this team can win much more than 81 games without a miracle!

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Yup, he has learned well from his shameless boss. From the same article... Because as we all know, the 2013 Red Sox offseason = 2014 Blue Jays offseason http://m.bluejays.mlb.com/news/2014/02/05/67491220/blue-jays-enter-spring-training-healthy-and-looking-for-better-results

"I don't know that we're done, we haven't stopped having dialogue... We made some changes on the staff. Second base, obviously a guy like Ryan Goins being the front-runner for the job, that's obviously a change from a year ago. And from a rotation standpoint, some of the young guys coming back, Morrow coming back.... There's still a lot of talented players. ... You believe there are some indicators that some of these players will turn it around." -The Fat Bastard

Haven't you heard? We have enough pitching as it stands and he's not even as good as Happ... In AA we trust!

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When the injuries inevitability hit Alex will just use them as a excuse as to why the team didn't perform up to the expectations. He actually had the nerve to bring up Chien-Ming Wang and Ramon Ortiz getting starts last year as a way to put a positive spin on this year's chances. It's like he's completely unaware that it was his responsibility to shore up the depth. I lost a lot of faith in him after the 2012 offseason when he sat on his hands and declared the team "not ready" to make any big splashes... Then last year I tried rationalizing the misguided change in direction by pinning things mostly on Beeston, but this offseason's total incompetence has made me completely lose hope for the fat bastard.

Yup, the perfect combination of incompetence and shamelessness wrapped in a fat package.

Hope definitely seems to be the common theme with the 2014 Blue Jays... Blue Jays hope victories are biggest addition in '14 Blue Jays: Five reasons for hope heading into 2014: Griffin Jays hope Happ’s adjustment makes ‘huge impact’ Hope for the 2014 Blue Jays Blue Jays, Brandon Morrow hoping to bounce back this year Healthy and happy, Jose Reyes hoping to help Blue Jays go on a big run Blue Jays' Stroman hoping to land starting job I guess when you don't have much else to stand on you resort to hope! It sounds kinda familiar actually... http://www.depers.nl/UserFiles/Image/2008/200801/20080109/hope%20obama.jpg

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Did all you pathetic AA apologists who are now claiming that "We have enough pitching" forget how the fat f*** himself identified acquiring starting pitching as the number one priority??? "We're going to earmark most of our money for starting pitching," said Anthopoulos. http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/teams/story/?id=437426&hubname=mlb-blue_jays

So do I, but now that we have, sitting on our hands makes last year's terrible moves look even worse.

Really??????????????? Isn't this exactly the opposite of what you've been saying???

Is it really that hard to comprehend the fact that during a contention "window" (where you're spending north of $130M) the last thing you want to do is experiment with unproven talent???????

Exactly!

How do you called it a "championship window" and at the same time endorse experimenting?????

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Nice, so instead of making offers Alex has been playing pocket pool this whole time.

f*** off!

I didn't say it's the same situation, I said it's the same mistake as in there's an obvious hole in Goins' game that once again is being overlooked. I can just imagine Sasquatch coming here next offseason and using Goins as a reason why things didn't go as expected.

You're deceiving yourself if you think "everything went wrong last year" and that's the main reason why they didn't succeed... Injuries are a part of this game and when you have no contingency plan in place, you should be expecting the worst. Maybe if its someone like MB going down, then you can blame luck but when it's guys like Bautista, Melky, Morrow or even Reyes and Lawrie, you should be prepared. This year the rotation is in a better shape of far as depth is concerned but the positional depth is terrible and there's essentially no one capable of adequately taking over in case one of the infielders go down. Also, it's pretty naive to use JPA's failure (especially when you were one of his biggest supporters) to illustrate why "everything went wrong", considering the same mistake is essentially being made again with Goins. Hoping for a replacement level talent to suddenly turn things around and relying on them in a contending year is a fools errand and that's exactly what the fat man is doing again. Claiming that there's absolutely zero chance of competing might be going overboard but lets not pretend that this team was actually built like a championship caliber team that failed due to unforeseen circumstances.