I'm mourning but...mostly I'm at peace. Cain did a ridiculously unusual thing, which is cool, the ump fucked us with the chance to score Pompey from 3rd and no outs but...ya know, that shit happens. (Robot home plate umps, yo.) But the pill that is too bitter to swallow is the 7th inning of Game 2. That was just some bullshit. (btw, one writer noted that until that Cain score, the 2015 match was a direct mirror image of 1985 and if the pattern had held, the Jays would be in the World Series)
Welp, Rogers - you managed to find a way to piss away everything you'd gained in the past 3 months. Good fucking show. I honestly don't know if I'm a fan anymore.
How do you figure? Shapiro is pretty solid on baseball operations, and Anthapoulos' contract was up. Much of what he built came through short term additions that were never going to help them in 2016 anyway.
the only short term additions were Price and two relievers. The entire offense is under control for next year and most of it for years to come. What they pissed away was fan excitement and good will. Rogers is unpopular as a company anyway, and widely regarded as ham-fisted and unsavvy baseball owners. The stumbled all over themselves last winter when Ed Rogers tried to leverage Beaston out (and failed) and it's obvious AA is Beaston's protege. Very like Roger's intention was to clean house as far back as last year. (which was unwise in itself, AA had done everything he'd been hired to do and the team was well positioned. Nevertheless they pressed on, likely spent most of the summer courting Shapiro (who, I agree is a fine many with many talents) and while Alex was putting the finishing touches on the team on July 31, they were putting together an offer which ceded his authority to Shapiro. The magic run failed to deter them or motivate them to modify the nature of the offer. Now a perfectly good man who has the talent to succeed is going to be introduced to a fan base in abject rage that the local-boy-made-good who'd ended the 22 year drought and who's insisted he wanted to spend the rest of his career with the team is somehow out. They may well do just fine between the lines, but a fan base who came into the season cynical, and spent the last 3 months being converted into true believers again, are largely back to being cynical.
