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Let's hope Dickey keeps the bedsheets clean tonight.

Whoa Jonn! #Confessions

What you said at the end of the first paragraph in bold is what's bothered me the most about Management/Ownership this year. I just wish they would knock off the cloak & dagger BS and be a little more transparent, but hopefully they won't drop the ball again with the waiver deadline. Yeah I mean ultimately it would be great if we get into the playoffs and make a little noise without having to weaken our farm or Rogers shelling out any deniero, that would be a phenomenal scenario considering this approach easily could've backfired in their face leading to a disastrous offseason. If that happens though and they profit with a playoff run I hope they'll increase the payroll next year so we can take a legitimate shot in 2015....and of course knock off all the double talk PR spin, etc.

It's never good to make assumptions because it makes an ass out of you not, ok your name's the cats ass so maybe nevermind but yeah no crazy conspiracies or anything. We're essentially on the same page, AA got neutered and now they know things are heating up so there's potential for spending via the profit to be made. Let's hope that happens this month or we can all bend over and wait for the smoke to be blown up our ass at another riveting AA press conference.

I gotta agree with this ^^. I mean @Twisted Logic are you AA's personal defender or defense lawyer or something? You are way too pro AA and not even bringing up any objectivity. Obviously if he's not lying to the fans for the sake of appeasing us to protect ownership's tight pockets than he was lying to all the GM's who went to Elliott saying Alex told them he doesn't have funds this year. Bottom line is he's lying to somebody and all the apologists and excuse mongers will say it was strategy but c'mon these GM's all know each other and you don't see Billy Beane, Cashman, Dombrowski, etc. playing these games. On top of that it was reported that players were willing to defer salary to accommodate signing E Santana, why would they even offer to do that in the first place? Too many coincidences here for me. Bob Elliott is pretty respected and there have been a ton of people in the media who aren't considered 3rd rate writers saying now was the time and that it was baffling when the Jays didn't make a move. I mean even with the players although it was Bautista, Buehrle, and Janssen going public I'm pretty sure the entire clubhouse felt the disgust and frustration. AA has done absolutely nothing financially in the offseason or at the trade deadline in comparison to other teams considered to be contenders this year. He's piddled around with the most minor of transactions that thankfully have produced results (Francisco, Reimold, Valencia, etc.) and now we'll see what he does at the end of August which will be the 3rd critical juncture of the season to improve. If it's nothing will that finally be enough for you to realize the entire year has been a brilliant PR smokescreen? He's an active GM who loves to deal and has the money anytime he wants it who's in the midst of a pennant race where we're the closest we've been in 21 years yet we get the price is too high, things didn't make sense, we didn't want to lose pieces, and all the other canned responses that we coincidentally keep hearing over and over from him. Imo he's been completely financially neutered by Rogers this year and can't tell that to the media/fanbase because people will flip out with the Jays being so close. If anything I'm sure that's got to be frustrating for him too because he's got to protect ownership while being handcuffed by them. His reasoning for the deadline was he didn't want to lose active players off the roster and that probably was the case with Boston and a few others so he flagshipped that as the main reason, but I don't believe that was the case with all of the potential deals. The rumored ask for Price was Stro or Sanchez & Hutch, neither of those might have been appealing to him or made sense but could he have countered with Sanchez, Gose, and a prospect. Could it have been Sanchez and a few other prospects because we know how much TB covets prospects? We'll never know but I believe Price's salary would've been a factor even if that was suitable. Personally I don't feel the sky is falling and I'm happy with the team's play but I am frustrated that management hasn't made a move of serious significance this entire year while blowing smoke up our ass. I'm also an optimist though, maybe things could things change in August if the Jays are still in the mix and it's so apparent to everybody including management that we're knocking on the door so they decide to drop the financial handcuffs off of AA. We can only hope but if Aug passes and nothing happens again while we're in a dogfight I won't know what to say, I guess we'll all have to keep drinking Rogers and Alex's special Kool Aid at the Aug 31st press conference.

Was he giving him a reach around?

Uh oh.

Yup just needed that one arm..or two

Seriously Casey better not blow it, I'm not in the mood for that s*** tonight.

Yup!!

Damn DV, go deep here Nolan.

@JewishJays probably read this article: http://baseballhotcorner.com/toronto-blue-jays-brain-trust-lying-fans-players/

Your pic kills me.

So true.

This game is making me nervous, anyone else?

Lay off the goddamn breaking balls already.

Like a wounded bulldog.

Huge cut there.

Melky so slow, ah well I'll take it.

Damn!

Hallelujah!

Anything but a DP.

Down to our last 6 outs and the meat, do or die time.

Disgusting nachos.

This game is a nightmare.