Smokey

This is a guy who didn't even land an interview for a managerial position after his first firing and managed to lead a team that was projected to win 85+ games into the basement of the AL East. Yup we definitely need to lock up this irreplaceable asset before it's too late.

The way I see it, Alex's lack of understanding of what makes a complete team is precisely the reason why he's not fit for the job. There's no doubt that he's done some positive things earlier on during his tenure when the pressure of winning wasn't strong... but when it comes to putting it all together, he has failed miserably. IMO there's simply no excuse for a team who's expanding its budget by $40+ million and pushing all their chips in to have such glaring issues with depth. Giving 51 starts to guys who were not even on the team's radar at the beginning of the season is not just a result of bad luck, it's a result of poor planing. Trading away the two SS in the system to bring in Reyes to play on the turf and relying on scrap pieces to fill the void when he's injured is also a symptom of the same problem. The more disappointing part for me is that he doesn't even seem to have learned a lesson for those mistakes, and although with Hutch and Stroman the team is in a better position as far as SP is concerned, there are still huge issues with the team's lack of positional depth, particularly in the middle IF. Overall, I'm sure there are plenty of GM's who are in fact worse than AA but that doesn't concern me much. What I care about is if he is capable of turning this group into a legitimate championship caliber team and I think the answer to that is a resounding NO at this point.

Him and Spermpie were a match made in hell.

LMAO I coined that.

One night he got all 6 games wrong and didn't hear the end of it from me... I think he stopped posting his "winning plays" after that lol.

I'm sure there's plenty worse but this one comes to mind... http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?sr=y&msg=87595.1&nav=messages&webtag=ml-bluejays

http://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/members/720-jaysfan2014

http://motivational-ish.com/files/2012/04/Thats-Right-Shit-Got-Real-Motivational-ish.jpg

WOW Sounds like someone desperately needs to smoke a joint and chill the f*** out. And lol @ "assault on my character"

So why were you all giddy when Alex was getting bent over last offseason? I recall you trying to "eat your cake" as the rest of us were basking in the hate. I love when people try to act like Alex's hands are tied with a $150 million budget when he's the one that got the team into this mess in the first place. I agree that the team is more than one piece away, but again, that's his own wrong doing caused by his shortsightedness and incompetence. Maybe you'll wake up one day and smell the diarrhea that the fat greek is serving you on a platter, but I doubt it.

I don't hold Rogers stocks and don't see why I should care about their profits. Besides, a lot of that revenue was generated by the hype of last offseason and things could change fast if the losing continues.

I know exactly what you mean. It is absolutely crazy that the so called informed fans of a this club have a hard time accepting the total incompetence and failure (so far) of a GM who's budget is nearing the $150 million mark. Why can't these "idiots" just blindly support the team and get on AA's cock like you have? This is total ********.

I don't know how anyone can say that last years team was competitive at any point. They won 11 straight but before and after that they pretty much played terrible fundamental baseball and it started with JP catching Dickey in the first game. I also hate when people use the injury excuse considering the fact that AA completely neglected the team's depth as we basically had Romero as the 6th starter and not much else and essentially no legitimate options at SS or 3B as backup.

If you were not so dumb I'd think you're joking.

Well ignorant old men usually have big egos.

Don't get your hopes up pal, uncle Pauly has way too big of an ego to let that happen.

His range was obviously limited after he came back from the injury... before that he was ok I thought.

If you're trying to win the worst poster award then you're well on your way... You seriously don't see an issue with the infield depth as it stands???

I didn't specify his defense, which I would consider average, but thanks for the useless post.

I don't get this.. if Ohka is not a good knuckleballer, meaning his pitches don't have much movement, how's he providing any value to a catcher?

I actually think with all this focus on the rotation, the team's lack of positional depth is being strongly overlooked. Reyes is pretty much the only above average middle infielder on this team and there is no guarantee that his legs will hold up for a full year on the turf (I know last year was a fluke but still). Lawrie or Edwin are also the only real options at the corners and an injury to either one could be devastating considering the other options and the fact that we're still missing a legit right-handed bat to platoon with Lind. The outfield is in a slightly better shape with Gose as the 4th OFer but he's also far from a sure thing offensively. Unfortunate Alex seems to have his blinders on again and is completely neglecting the area that's easiest to fix.

Oh FFS if you're going to try a comeback at least pretend not to be the idiot also know as raysjays/digiblader/high85

I don't know why everyone is so upset... Didn't you hear uncle Pauly telling us that if we don't win next year, we will the year after? What's the problem? lol Seriously though, I don't believe this report although I kinda want it to be true... The FO is in desperation mode whether they want to admit it or not and Alex is going to do something stupid sooner or later since his puppet master doesn't want to go out like this.

It's starting to look more and more like the old board... all we're missing is Jaybooster's nauseating posts on what a great job Alex is doing.

Ban!