Comments on Drunk Jays Fans: Goat Gate - Day Two

Before I left for work today I wrote a big comment...

2007-09-28T12:24:16.780-04:00

Before I left for work today I wrote a big comment that totally slapped the dick out of your mouth on this one, Parkes. Then my connection fucked up and the comment got lost. But I assure you, it was fabulous.

Parkes makes a good point. By not saying anything ...

2007-09-28T09:26:31.738-04:00

Parkes makes a good point. By not saying anything about Brantley, it basically just dies. And that's been his strategy many times. Sure, it's infuriating not to get an explanation, but after a few days of pounding the walls in your home in frustration, you start to forget about it. If he makes any comments, the media goes with all these different stories and he's dealing with it for the next few weeks. Glaus is atually a pretty good example of how effective this can be.

That said, it's still fucking cowardly and insulting. Fuck, say something you dumb muppet. I mean just say "Mick's a decent dude, we just needed a change." Is that so hard? And as strategic as JP's silent tactic is, Chairman Mao's right, why not just do this in the off season? That makes a lot more sense. Is this just cause JP wants us to feel some hope for the last three games of the season so some people go to the Rogers Centre this weekend? It's like he's worried nobody will pick up on this during the off season, yet he also won't respond to the media when he puts it out there while they might still care.

Holy fuck, I'm giving myself a headache. Lastly, it is worth noting that whenever JP actually does voice an opinion, it is just brutal. Remember last year's "Our 2, 3 and 4 hitters are killing us. Just killing us" after those hitters had hit poorly in the last two games (otherwise hitting superb)? And then this year's "AJ is a pussy" comment. Whenever he does say something, it seems to be ill-timed and ill-informed. Maybe JP is a total hothead psycho and that he knows this and therefore abides by keeping his mouth shut. When he says "no comment" from now on, I'm just going to assume he's saying: "(this guy) is a tptal pussy and he's killing us. Just killing us."

I meant "you're" . . . I'm half in the bag.

2007-09-28T03:24:13.356-04:00

I meant "you're" . . . I'm half in the bag.

Your full of shit. I'm in the exact opposite camp...

2007-09-28T03:22:56.809-04:00

Your full of shit. I'm in the exact opposite camp. Other shit that Ricciardi pulls has me scratching my head but this makes perfect sense.

He leaks that Brantley is getting fired to quell the calls for change and then doesn't say anything to show some respect for the guy. This way any incoming hitting coach, and they're definitely going to hire from outside the organization, isn't coming into a weird situation in which your predecessor was chewed out for a shitty job in front of the main media.

Has Brantley's scapegoat call gotten much attention? Yes, but it's gonna fade faster than steroids from a Troy Glaus urine sample.

In this instance, the numbers speak for themselves and Ricciardi doesn't have to.

Nails, Stoten. JP's refusal to comment is baffling...

2007-09-27T21:25:52.787-04:00

Nails, Stoten. JP's refusal to comment is baffling, but even more confusing to me is the timing of the move - firing a coach with only a week left in the season? It seems like the right thing to do would be to hold off on this firing until afterwards, make all the coaching changes at once, and explain them clearly to the public. JP's etiquette is so poor that it makes me think he was an abandoned orphan - he obviously didn't have a mama to teach him some basic human decency.

If I search long enough, I can always find the logic in JP's moves. I might not always agree with them, but I usually see why he does what he does. However, the execution of some of his decisions lately have been so incompetent (revealing player injuries way after their diagnosis, for example), that it makes me think he's got even less political gumption than Howard Dean or Joe Clark.