It's been quite a while since I have posted due to illness and trying to recover in the real world from said illness, so I've missed a lot and this post has been evolving in my head for a week and a half or so. Suffice it to say that I think the development of events have shown that I was right here.
And look, I'm fine with it. They don't have to contend next season, I think that makes sense. If you asked me 5 years ago if i thought the Jays would be contenders in 2009-10 I would have said no, because clearly they are trying to contend in 2006-08 and you have to step back. The problem is for some reason they screwed up the contending in 2006-08. Hopefully they have learned their lesson and will seriously attempt to contend in 2011-2013.
Could they have contended next season if they spent $140mil+? Probably, but the likelihood is your going to get a Mets instead of whatever you want if you do that, and nobody wants that.
The problem I have is that their PR push, and the idiot media is still trying to sell that money is no problem and there will be perennial contention or something else that doesn't make sense, in some vain attempt to keep season ticket holders from cancelling or something. What worries me is that this continuing shoveling of BS means that when the rubber hits the road again in 2 years the people above atos and Beeston are once again going to screw this thing up when the real money needs to be spent. Because they are still where the real problem lies.
Nothing about hiring atos, or Beeston staying, for reasons stated here and here, makes feel any better about that.
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