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Originally Posted by Jason14h
Carpenter is 27-5 over the last 2 seasons...... He does this to everyone!
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Yeah, his W-L record has been impressive. But he amps his game up even that much more against the Blue Jays. He's a quality pitcher and who knows with a different owner in those days maybe the vision of a staff lead by Halladay and Carpenter could have taken shape.
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Originally Posted by habernac
Yeah, he's definitely bitter about something. He had comments on their attendance the other day, insinuated that the fans were staying away due to too many changes in management over the years. Called for some stability (gave the Cardinals as an example with LaRussa being the manager there forever).
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Yeah, I read those comments too. On one hand I think he has a point where there has been a fair bit of turn over in the front office of the team, and even more on field. But I think part of the blame really needs to move further up the chain.
When Labatt's owned the team it was an owner that wanted the team to do well, and put a lot of resources into it. They had a top notch GM, and front office. When Interbrew took over Labatt's they really didn't care and viewed the Blue Jays as an asset they didn't really want. Eventually they did allow the team to deteriorate to the state it was when Rogers took over. Hopefully Rogers can bring some stability and restore some of the pride in owning the team and build it back up to where they once were.