A Quick One While He's Lame
Maybe it's the booze talking, but I sit down to write this Griffin post with a grudging admiration for the man.
It's only my third crack at the mailbag and I'm already tired of skewering his Jason Frasor fixation and the rest of the bitter foibles that make up his weekly sermon. How he manages to hack on JP week after week through another third-place season is actually pretty impressive. So, with the lack of anything new from Grimace, just a couple quick notes on the mailbag.:
But what about J.P.'s own uncertain legacy with deals like Cesar Izturis and Paul Quantrill for Luke Prokopec and Chad Ricketts, or Felipe Lopez for Jason Arnold. A box of doughnuts might have sweetened those deals.
It is not a disdain for John Gibbons as much as it is an understanding and a feel for his untenable situation working under the micro-management of J.P. Ricciardi.
As for David Cone, he was reaching the end of a contract and the Jays were going to lose him to free agency. Clemens orchestrated his own escape to New York and the Jays were forced to make their best deal possible. The Hentgen deal was uncalled for, even though his best years were behind him. He was a lifer and a loyal soldier. Finally, when Ash obtained Loaiza, the Jays thought they were in a 2000 pennant drive and had a farm system chock full of shortstops ahead of Young in the pecking order. "
But what about....?" Christ, I bet Griffin blames JP for his speeding tickets. "But officer, I had to rush back to the Star to expose JP's secret plan to trade Roy Halladay for Damion Easley!"
The upshot of these torturous paragraphs is that it's OK to trade four-time All-Star and former AL batting champ Michael Young for nothing, but trading vastly inferior shortstops Felipe Lopez and Cesar Izturis is a cardinal sin. Gord Ash is Canadian.
Also, Petraeus reminds us you shouldn't trade washed up pitchers that are "lifers" and "loyal soldiers." If, as stated elsewhere here, Steve Simmons would have a team of Josh Towers', it could still whup Griffin's preferred Jays lineup, which appears to be made up of Reed Johnson, Hentgen, Jim Clancy, and Ernie Whitt.
Conveniently, he doesn't mention that one of Ricciardi's worst ever moves was to being back 'loyal soldier' Hentgen in 2004, only to see him put up a 2-9, 6.95 line. Grimace passing up the chance to bash JP, what is the world coming to....
It's only my third crack at the mailbag and I'm already tired of skewering his Jason Frasor fixation and the rest of the bitter foibles that make up his weekly sermon. How he manages to hack on JP week after week through another third-place season is actually pretty impressive. So, with the lack of anything new from Grimace, just a couple quick notes on the mailbag.:
But what about J.P.'s own uncertain legacy with deals like Cesar Izturis and Paul Quantrill for Luke Prokopec and Chad Ricketts, or Felipe Lopez for Jason Arnold. A box of doughnuts might have sweetened those deals.
It is not a disdain for John Gibbons as much as it is an understanding and a feel for his untenable situation working under the micro-management of J.P. Ricciardi.
As for David Cone, he was reaching the end of a contract and the Jays were going to lose him to free agency. Clemens orchestrated his own escape to New York and the Jays were forced to make their best deal possible. The Hentgen deal was uncalled for, even though his best years were behind him. He was a lifer and a loyal soldier. Finally, when Ash obtained Loaiza, the Jays thought they were in a 2000 pennant drive and had a farm system chock full of shortstops ahead of Young in the pecking order. "
But what about....?" Christ, I bet Griffin blames JP for his speeding tickets. "But officer, I had to rush back to the Star to expose JP's secret plan to trade Roy Halladay for Damion Easley!"
The upshot of these torturous paragraphs is that it's OK to trade four-time All-Star and former AL batting champ Michael Young for nothing, but trading vastly inferior shortstops Felipe Lopez and Cesar Izturis is a cardinal sin. Gord Ash is Canadian.
Also, Petraeus reminds us you shouldn't trade washed up pitchers that are "lifers" and "loyal soldiers." If, as stated elsewhere here, Steve Simmons would have a team of Josh Towers', it could still whup Griffin's preferred Jays lineup, which appears to be made up of Reed Johnson, Hentgen, Jim Clancy, and Ernie Whitt.
Conveniently, he doesn't mention that one of Ricciardi's worst ever moves was to being back 'loyal soldier' Hentgen in 2004, only to see him put up a 2-9, 6.95 line. Grimace passing up the chance to bash JP, what is the world coming to....
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