Some of the posters who were *******s to me for expressing pessimism about our front office in the past are hopefully starting to come to the realization that they've been sold a s*** sandwich.
If not, well then hey I hear there's an orange guy in a whole lot of legal trouble south of the border who could use some money for his defense fund, I'm sure you've already donated though but that doesn't mean you can't donate again!
Let's get real for a minute.
Despite what you think, Atkins f***s up. A lot.
-f***ed up on the Morales contract.
-f***ed up on the Roark contract.
-f***ed up the Jaime Garcia contract.
-Gambled and lost on Yates, despite concerning medical reports on him.
-f***ed up by giving Randall that contract extension. Those that raised the alarm were attacked by the *******s.
-Traded Happ for Billy McKinney and Brandon Drury.
-Traded Stroman for Kay and SWR, the Mets 4th and 6th ranked prospects at that time. Stroman had a sub 3.00 era pitching in the AL East at the time.
-f***ed up the Donaldson situation.
-Overpaid Kikuchi as a free agent.
-Can't build a shutdown bullpen.
-f***ed up the Mitch White/Frasso trade. A few of us voiced alarm but we're shouted down by the *******s.
-f***ed up the Varsho trade. A few of us voiced alarm but we're shouted down by the *******s.
-f***ed up the Anthony Bass situation. Turned it into a PR nightmare.
And that's all just off the top of my head. There's more.
The drafting and development is a joke, especially after the way they threw AA under the bus for supposedly stripping the farm bare.
At least AA could f***ing build a good farm system, and quickly. He was able to sell the farm for the 2013 makeover, and then able to build it back up again in time to acquire Tulo & Price in 2015. And at least his playoff teams were built to win a playoff game.
This FO preached building a sustainable winner that would be keyed around having a steady pipeline of prospects and then resigning them.
Well 8 years in and the farm system blows, we have a luxury tax payroll that is by far the highest team payroll ever, yet we don't have any homegrown talent signed long term. We've had to consistently bring in FA talent from outside the organization because we can't develop talent. This is exactly the s*** they said they wouldn't have to do!
When Atlanta won it's first division title under AA the *******s here talked about how he was gifted a great team and didn't want to give him any credit. Well the Braves are on the way to be a perfect 6/6 in winning division titles under his watch, and they won a world series. And their future looks extremely bright still!
How many times do Spanky and gang have to be wrong before they eat some f***ing crow? Instead you bully and belittle people who don't agree that our team has been run poorly since AA was driven out by Shapiro.
Even in the dark days of the late 90s and early 2000s, at least we had Delgado and Halladay who were a pleasure to watch. This team is annoying as hell to watch.
Baltimore has passed us like we're standing still despite a payroll that is less than 1/3 of ours.
The team needs a rebuild, and this front office better have nothing to do with it.
I've been a die hard fan since 1988 and always will be a Blue Jays fan only, but I think I feel worse about this team's future than I ever have.
/End rant.
I won't be posting here anymore as I'm going to try and take a step back. I've spend too much of my free time on this team. Too many wasted nights. I'm not going to renew my season tickets next year either.
I'll pop by from time to time to read the remaining *******s' rainbow and sunshine posts whenever I need a good laugh. Hopefully some of you come around on this and start to shout down the remaining *******s but I'm not wasting anymore of my time on them.
Enjoy the taste of s*** *******s, especially you Spanx. There's a massive sandwich filled with s*** with your name on it bud. You're a troll, always have been, always will be.
If you stayed with me through to the end of this post you know I'm not all wrong.