The Honeymoon Is Over

Well, that was fast. As Parkes has already pointed out, after a few days of nailing it in the desert heat-- and based on his exploits at past Winter Meetings, that could be taken literally-- this morning Griffin threw a mug full of frozen piss in our faces. Part of me hopes it's the jet lag, but I know it's not. . . I know it's not. . .

Trading Halladay only fair, the title says, and... ugh, in it he makes a poorly thought-out case for trading the Jays' ace.

Now Parkes has covered the key aspect of what makes this idea fucking ridiculous, but there are still several other pieces of his argument that I think I can get irate about. In fact, there's one little thing about this turd that's particularly shitting in my craw: the timing.

Like... for fuck sakes, was Griff not saying two fucking days ago that the Jays should be waiting until January, when desperation sets in for guys who have yet to be signed, and throwing what little cash they have at some veteran arms? Isn't the market kind of playing out exactly that way? Wouldn't it be a little fucking stupid to conclude, today, that the '09 Jays are in entirely place and they're absolutely going to fucking suck for the next two years?

Look, I have to try hard not to be too delusional about how competitive I think the Jays can be next year, but it's just seriously fucked up to be writing them off at this point. I mean, I guess this is completely typical Griffin, trying to be yin douche to JP Ricciardi's yang bag, but let's just hold on a fucking second here. I know a lot has to go right, and I know that in most years even less has had to go right, and it never fucking does, but seriously. . . Wells and Rios can be better, Rolen and Overbay can definitely be better, full seasons of Hill, Snider and Lind will make a difference, Janssen can be very effective if he's healthy, McGowan will still get a bunch of starts once he's back, Cecil will likely show up at some point, yeah, Purcey, Romero and Richmond are underwhelming, but still OK-ish and will have a great defence behind them, Clement could... well, alright, let's not go nuts, but holy fucking seriously fucking seriously. Find an OK bat and another arm on the cheap and how bad does it really look???

I understand that seven years (er... fifteen?) of finding shit at the bottom of the glass is going to make people pessimistic, but if you look at it as half full, it's just really not that fucking bad, people. Certainly not "you owe it to Halladay to get him out of this mess" bad-- that's just fucking retarded on a number of levels.

And for fuck sakes, who was definitely going to dominate the AL Central this time last year? The Tigers (74-88) with maybe an outside shot for the Indians (81-81). Once they nabbed Santana, who was possibly going to beat the Mets in the NL East? Which teams were going to dominate the AL East as usual? How bad were the Marlins (84-77) going to be? How good were the Mariners (61-101) going to be?

Thats' why they play the games. . .

And Another Thing (Or two. Or three)

Wait a second, so AJ now "abused the Jays with an opt-out clause even though they took him off the scrap heap and overpaid." Seriously? Fuck off. It would be wonderful if the world were as black and white as the beer-goggles Griff sees it through, but holy shit this is some serious shit-smelling revisionist history right here. Unless "scrap heap" means the heap where you find guys who five or six teams are prepared to give $40M to.

And isn't it really fucking "classy" now to piss and moan about overpaying and relenting to the opt-out-- you know, like the one those fucktards with the Yankees agreed to on Sabathia-- when the pissing and the moaning would have obviously been twice as fierce if the Jays hadn't addressed their need for a number-two pitcher in '06, or if they'd just gone with some shitbag. I mean, can we stop acting like this was Carlos fucking Silva.

Oh, and Griffin is particularly upset about the lack of communication between JP and Doc. "We'll see him in spring training and any questions he's got we'll answer," Ricciardi shrugged. "I don't think we're going backwards. We've still got a good club. We've got a good club going forward."

Because, uh... the lame duck GM blowing smoke up his ass is, I'm sure, exactly what Roy needs to feel comfortable about the situation he's in.

Lastly, holy fuck that smoking poll the Star has got running really validates everything I think about the people who read Griffin for any reason other than to shit on him, and basically, well,... about two-thirds of Jays fans. And holy shit, the comments! They actually rival the article itself-- it's fucking draining to even attempt to get through that much fucking stupidity on one page. Fucking Christ...