Suntouchable13
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I am tickled pink that Cleveland is done. When a team celebrates on your home turf, you wanna see them burn. It stays with me for a while. Now I will go back to hating the Yankees in the ALCS.
So this is interesting:
Apparently, Shapiro has just fired our minor league managers, several scouts, and 23 front-office personnel.
Not sure what to make of that...
The Blue Jays fired a reported 23 employees Wednesday from various departments on the business side. The club insisted it was not a cost-cutting measure but more a shift of resources to address evolving needs. The streamlined front office is merging and re-organizing fan engagement and media relations.
Gone from the former media department are Mal Romanin, the manager of baseball information, Erik Grosman, the coordinator of baseball information, and communications coordinator Sue Mallabon. The only leftover is communications vice-president Jay Stenhouse.
The Jays expanded their existing fan engagement department last season, an area that includes business-led PR initiatives and Blue Jays social media. That department, led by Sebastian Gatica, has now merged with media in reporting to Gatica, who transferred from Sportsnet to the Jays in 2016 to coordinate personal affairs for president Mark Shapiro.
“In recent years, our business has become more focused on engaging fans through compelling experiences, unique content and personalized service,” Gatica said. “Today’s changes reflect that evolving nature of our business as we shift to meet these needs through a new structure and resources aimed at delivering memorable experiences to our passionate fan base.”
The new setup, with a one-person media department, is unique to Major League Baseball.
So this is interesting:
Apparently, Shapiro has just fired our minor league managers, several scouts, and 23 front-office personnel.
Not sure what to make of that...
Could be worse. Imagine what they'd be saying if Aaron Judge wasn't a complete tire fire so far this playoffs...Let me sum up all the post-game media talk:
hnnnngghhhhh Yankees intangibles.
Wait, Edwin Encarnacion didn't win them the series against the grossly overrated Yankees?
Yes, Edwin's injury...not the fact that VASTLY SUPERIOR players like Kluber and Ramirez didn't do anything.
Edwin failed, sorry bud. Also, if you want to get trivial, Judge was even worse than injured Edwin LOL.
Hard to believe he's a former GM..In other nonsensical news, Steve Phillips was on tsn1050 this morning saying he would trade Stephen Strasburg in the offseason. He is 29, and has six years left on one of the most club friendly SP deals in the game.
#espninternsandMoVaughanandsuch
In other nonsensical news, Steve Phillips was on tsn1050 this morning saying he would trade Stephen Strasburg in the offseason. He is 29, and has six years left on one of the most club friendly SP deals in the game.
#espninternsandMoVaughanandsuch
As per any other trade talk - depends on the return.
you sound upset.
but i agree shappy's indians choked.
His premise behind wanting to trade him was "he's too soft, and I don't want soft guys on my team. I want me some Jeremy Bernitzzzz on my teamz."
You'd be hard pressed getting value back for Strasburg's age 29/30/31/32/33/34. But of course, always possible. Especially with Rizzo. Its less about trading him, and more about the motivation to do so.
It's usually pretty stupid when someone evaluates a player based on an inability to play because of injury/illness. It's a whole new level of stupid when that player ultimately decides he's able to play, proceeds to absolutely dominate the opponent, and someone sticks to the "too soft" argument because the player considered not playing. What a dumbass.
Many times you see someone play like a bag of garbage and then after the fact you find out they had a major injury. Like why didn't you let a fresh player play, instead of seeing someone struggle because they are too screwed up and probably on too much pain meds
Peter Gammons had a piece on Twitter saying it is an option for Farrell to return Toronto to work with Shapiro/Atkins. He wasn't saying he would or it was likely it was more like pointing out Farrell has worked with them in the past and has management/scouting/development experience in his background.
Would be fun to see the reaction if that scenario developed.
Seemed like he couldn't wait to get out of TO