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JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:16 pm
by Brinbe
ReportToronto Blue Jays management change
ROGERS today announced that J.P. RICCIARDI will be leaving his position as Senior Vice President, Baseball Operations & General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays effective immediately. Mr. Ricciardi joined the Blue Jays in 2001.
"This was a tough decision and a difficult one for me personally as I have enjoyed J.P.'s friendship and his perspective on the game," said Paul Beeston, acting President, and CEO. "J.P. has put an incredible amount of effort into improving the team and he has brought along a number of great young players. However, I feel that it is time for a change and accordingly we have decided to move on."
Alexander Anthopoulos, Vice President, Baseball Operations & Assistant General Manager will fill the role commencing today.
HOORAY!
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:23 pm
by LittleOzzy
Happy Happy Joy Joy!
I'm so happy he's gone. I hope this doesn't mean the end of Cito as well.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:32 pm
by SharoneWright
http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/704994The Star/CP
A couple very bad contracts did him in.
Ryan
Thomas
Wells
Rios
I believe he is a more than decent evaluator of minor league talent. But at this level you also need to accurately guage the 'worth' of your upper echelon talent. He failed at that miserably (with no help from Godfrey).
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:34 pm
by Garmfay
Thank you! RETARDI is gone. Now please get rid of Cito too..
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:52 pm
by Winggfly
OLAY, OLAY OLAY OLAY OLAYYYY, OLAYYYYYY, OLAYYYYY
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:01 pm
by YogiStewart
what a mess, the Blue Jays are
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:04 pm
by dagger
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:07 pm
by cb4_89
hell yes. This is so great.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:07 pm
by theSkinny
So who are some of the prospective replacements?
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:08 pm
by Dr Octagon
PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to Fan590 website:
Alexander Anthopoulos, Vice President, Baseball Operations & Assistant General Manager will fill the role commencing today.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:21 pm
by Throwback24
Why are you guys happy he got fired? He seemed like a good guy who had a definite plan, next year was going to be the year
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:28 pm
by Raps in 4
SharoneWright wrote:http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/704994
The Star/CP
A couple very bad contracts did him in.
Ryan
Thomas
Wells
Rios
I believe he is a more than decent evaluator of minor league talent. But at this level you also need to accurately guage the 'worth' of your upper echelon talent. He failed at that miserably (with no help from Godfrey).
Agreed 100%.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:32 pm
by cb4_89
Throwback24 wrote:Why are you guys happy he got fired? He seemed like a good guy who had a definite plan, next year was going to be the year
No we were in year 7 of his 75 year rebuilding plan. Next year was not going to be the year.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:34 pm
by Schad
SkinnyP wrote:So who are some of the prospective replacements?
Alex Anthopolous will be taking over...he's Canadian, and it's not for nothing that they've been parading him out on the Fan pretty frequently this year.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:38 pm
by DIEHARD_005
VICTORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:48 pm
by DG88
IT'S ABOUT F***ING TIME!
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:48 pm
by theSkinny
Schadenfreude wrote:SkinnyP wrote:So who are some of the prospective replacements?
Alex Anthopolous will be taking over...he's Canadian, and it's not for nothing that they've been parading him out on the Fan pretty frequently this year.
Are we happy about this?
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:51 pm
by hsb
Why not wait until the end of the season? Whatever, he was a lame duck in a lot of ways. No way was he surprised by this.
Shows them right for calling this year nothing but a set up for the following one. Very bad way to go about things for everyone involved, I don't want to hear that as a fan.
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:53 pm
by Air Canada
This shouldve been done 2 years ago
Re: JP is now officially finished!
Posted: Sat Oct 3, 2009 5:03 pm
by Kosta
Finally.