The First "Meaningful" Dispatch from Camp is not Encouraging

Bastian's first report from active Spring Training (is that right?) starts with a sad story about Roy Halladay's lonely locker, and I have to say if I have to read much more about this kind of crap I may not be getting any more Jays news from anywhere. He's gooooone for gawdds sake Jordan, when are you going to cut it out? Are you going to dredge up his carcass yet again after atos makes his first big move of next off season and harken back to the Halladay trade in the first paragraph of all those reports? Because I can definitely see that everything you write this season is probably going to open with a Halladay reference whether it's helpful or not.

Anyways it just goes downhill from there because this is all about Cito and his "plans" and yes the man has plans. Yeah I think Cito is wrong about most of this stuff, but I just don't care about it at this point because really can we expect any of this stuff to survive may? However you structure the lineup, the starters and the bullpen, the team would suck. Personally yes I would like to see Encarnacion bat 2nd and Hill bat 4th with Lind 3rd because that makes sense to me and I think they are intriguing ideas. But you know what, I'm pretty sure after the second week of the season things are going to get pretty fluid so whatever he rambles about now, it's not what's going to actually happen. I'm holding onto that anyways.

I did like the thing about no Halladay working every 5 days and more flexibility in the staff because of it. I'm not quite sure the paragraph actually made any sense, but I'm going to hope it means they have no intention of sticking to a strict 5 man rotation in order to generate more starting opportunities for more guys. Kind of sounds like my 6-man rotation idea doesn't it?

So I'll cling to that 1 poorly written paragraph in an otherwise dismal report to keep my hope alive that they have some kind of reasonable plan to develop something this season.

Update: Brian Tallet as one of the 5 starters? I will be first to admit that I thought he showed some promise as a 4th or 5th starter last season, and if they were going to go for it this season he should get a shot. But give those chances to some young guys with a lot more promise for the future if this is a lost year.