JP is now officially finished!

Brinbe · Post #1 » by **Brinbe** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:16 pm

Toronto 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!

Post #2 » by **LittleOzzy** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:23 pm

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

I'm so happy he's gone. I hope this doesn't mean the end of Cito as well.

SharoneWright · Post #3 » by **SharoneWright** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:32 pm

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).

Garmfay · Post #4 » by **Garmfay** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:34 pm

Thank you! RETARDI is gone. Now please get rid of Cito too..

Winggfly · Post #5 » by **Winggfly** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 3:52 pm

OLAY, OLAY OLAY OLAY OLAYYYY, OLAYYYYYY, OLAYYYYY

Post #6 » by **YogiStewart** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:01 pm

what a mess, the Blue Jays are

dagger · Post #7 » by **dagger** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:04 pm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/b ... le1311100/

cb4_89 · Post #8 » by **cb4_89** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:07 pm

hell yes. This is so great.

Post #9 » by **theSkinny** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:07 pm

So who are some of the prospective replacements?

Dr Octagon · Post #10 » by **Dr Octagon** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:08 pm

PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to Fan590 website:

Alexander Anthopoulos, Vice President, Baseball Operations & Assistant General Manager will fill the role commencing today.

Throwback24 · Post #11 » by **Throwback24** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:21 pm

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

Raps in 4 · Post #12 » by **Raps in 4** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:28 pm

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%.

cb4_89 · Post #13 » by **cb4_89** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:32 pm

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.

Post #14 » by **Schad** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:34 pm

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.

DIEHARD_005 · Post #15 » by **DIEHARD_005** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:38 pm

VICTORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Post #16 » by **DG88** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:48 pm

IT'S ABOUT F***ING TIME!

Post #17 » by **theSkinny** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:48 pm

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?

hsb · Post #18 » by **hsb** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:51 pm

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.

Air Canada · Post #19 » by **Air Canada** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 4:53 pm

This shouldve been done 2 years ago

Kosta · Post #20 » by **Kosta** » Sat Oct 3, 2009 5:03 pm

Finally.