Bored Much?

What a productive day! Somewhere among the thirty-seven times I refreshed my Google news search for the Toronto Blue Jays I learned a few things.

First, I found out that the Jays 2009 Spring Training Schedule consists of not one, but two trips to Port Charlotte. Wow. Then, I came across a short story about the Montreal Expos last home game that almost turned my soul into a bored black hole for adrenaline. Fortunately, I stopped reading after the first paragraph and focused my attention on gnawing off my left arm just to avoid slipping into some sort of strange suspended state of hibernation.

(Seriously, if anyone can actually read the entire story and write a criticism proving that they finished it, I'll be glad to ensure that they're properly recognized with a blog post and some sort of shitty swag or something.)

Then, just a couple minutes ago I discovered a dude named Steve Faguy who blogs from Montreal and has a problem with The Score giving advertising revenue to bloggers that he, Blogging King Of The Universe, has never even heard of. I mean if Guy Faguette from Montreal, with his fingers on the pulse of the blogosphere, hasn't heard of your blog, why even bother going on?

My favourite part of his sour grapes rant is that from his own personal blog he points out that "without the access and resources of big media, all you have is some guy talking out of his ass."

I wonder if in his hurry to shit on something he forgot about from what platform he was defecating. I'd also like to point out that ass-talking makes the journalistic world go round. If it's not the journalist himself (or herself, ladies) talking out of his ass, in the age of media relations, it's the journalist being fed a steady diet of quotes from someone else's ass.

Speaking of asses, how much longer are we going to have to wait to see some Rogers suits announce that Stan Kasten has been named Blue Jays President? A couple weeks ago, Kasten's name was more synonomous with the Jays job than his current position with the Washington Nationals.

After Bob McCown and his followers (everyone from Marty York to Bob Elliot - they're different people, right?) made Kasten the hot topic in town, there hasn't been so much as a whisper about his future employment. Kasten, for his part, seems to be rehearsing for the Blue Jays top spot, recently playing down the Nationals interest in Mark Texeria to the media.

I find it hard to believe that Kasten being hired would do much for the job security of J.P. Ricciardi. Kasten was saddled with fuck up extraordinaire Jim Bowden when he took the Nationals job, and an Elijah Duke acquisition and FBI investigation later, I'm sure he'd want to bring in his own guy. Could this be the reason Jeff Blair, no longer merely a lowly baseball reporter, is saying that Ricciardi hasn't even received a payroll figure for next season?