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I pray some GM picks him up, what a nightmare tenure since he's been here. The writing was on the wall with his injuries even before he came, it was such a roll of the dice that predictably backfired. I hated having him from day 1, that and trading super utility boy Yan Gomes for Esmil Rogers were complete head scratchers.

Why wasn't this done a wk ago, what the heck is the holdup? Headley would kill balls at the Rogers Centre.

Btw- Where did that extra 15M go that AA said they had to sign Santana?? Hmmmmmmm.

If I recall correctly AA was trying to land JJ and Reyes for a long time prior to the trade, he was obsessed. The Marlins finally relented when the Jays agreed to take on Beuhrle who ironically became the most productive of the 3. Personally I can't blame AA for making this move, everybody thought we were a few players away from being a serious threat in the division with the aging Yankees & Red Sox. I don't care what people say about Escobar, he was a good fielder but a GIDP King at the plate and a completely useless bat. Nobody could've predicted the absolute implosion of JJ to those levels in spite of him and Reyes having a checkered injury history. That move had serious potential even though it backfired and I know it's easy for everyone to play Monday morning quarterback now and dump all over it but these are the same people who were excited as hell when it was announced. I would criticize the Dickey trade a little more questioning how successful he would be coming from the NL East to the AL East and particularly the Rogers Centre but it would still be a very tempting move to acquire a CY winner coming off a dominating season. Injuries and a lack of chemistry killed us last year. This year we were healthy and having time to gel these moves were finally starting to produce results until the injury bug reared it's ugly head again (although in fairness we were starting to slide prior to the injuries). AA took a shot, and I give him credit for having the balls to do so. That said he's also gotta put on his big boy pants and face the heat from all us keyboard warriors and the media for the shot failing..but what bothers me is him (or the puppet masters above him) freezing the payroll. We've already come this far and we're only a handful of games out of first, let's make a trade or two and go for it! If we take on a few short term contracts you still have the option to blow it up if we don't make the playoffs. Clearly we're not rebuilding and we're contending here so make a decision and go one way or the other. Since technically we are contending sell the damn farm!! That may be an unpopular stance here but like I said if it all goes bad we can dismantle it in the off season (or maybe give it 1 last year?) and then re-coup our farm, youth movement, etc. with all the assets we'll get dealing the likes of Reyes, Bautista, EE, Rasmus, etc. Heck somebody will still take chances on Dickey and Buerhle. Go out and get Chase Headley and a Jorge De La Rosa or whoever, we are already all in anyways. The worst thing management can do is flounder and flip flop in the middle like this, they're playing a dangerous game with the fans and they could lose their shot at the playoffs AND a ton of fan support leading to even bigger revenue losses in the long run...

Good post!.. Dream scenario would be unloading the farm and a few accessories for Price and Zobrist as they're on reasonable contracts but as you mentioned it won't happen. As far as who's within the Blue Jays budgetary range to acquire- Chase Headley or Adrian Beltre and Jorge De La Rosa would be amazing! Getting an infielder and SP would help this team immensely (The B12 shot in the arm for this team as Bautista mentioned in his interview). Getting these guys would be affordable plus they are very decent ball players that could make the difference between seeing the playoffs or not. Let's hope AA doesn't sleep on this trade deadline because we're sinking faster than the titanic right now..

This is what happens when the luckiest team in the league plays the unluckiest team in the league..

And we're done!

Simply unbelievable..

Yes Thole! Now please don't f*** this up Reyes..

Hopefully Thole can get on base again, is twice too much to ask for?

Those tic tac runs for the A's are really depressing since our bats are having one of those nights. Figures as soon as Dickey pitches a good game we decide to GIDP every inning..

What a disastrous inning.

One time Hutch!

Serenity now!

Hopefully Hutch won't ruin Canada Day..

Sigh, I can't believe we got dicked by Dickey once again.

Typical Dickey, another groundhog day.

Short leash for the Dickster here.

Not sure this lineup can muster up the 3 or more runs required tonight..

Danks is making EE look foolish this AB, make him pay Edwin!

Lord please don't let Dickey suck ass tonight.

Thole goes deep here.

Juan will not K here.

No worries guys Tolleson won't GIDP.

No worries guys Tolleson and Francisco are up next.