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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's more a PR mistake and it shows how starved Blue Jays fans are for a winner after nearly 20 years of losing. I don't think they're flipping out because of Darvish, it could have been anyone. They're just tired of losing and being 2nd best all winter so far. This was an opportunity to win the fans back. If the Jays indeed lost a bunch of fans (justified or not) over a couple of million dollars, that's a serious blunder.
If the Jays really wanted to make a splash they needed to go big or go home. 60 million$ bid.
If the Jays bid less then Dice-Ks 51.1 million (which it seem they certainly did) then they were more hoping to get him rather than standing up and saying F-Yu all were getting him. If a 60 million$ bid had lost I don't think there would be as much backlash today.
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What Dice-K got is irrelevant. I don't understand why people keep bringing it up. Sure, Darvish is the better prospect and you'd expect him to get more, but there's a long list of other mitigating factors to consider. Things like who's bidding (no Yankees/Red Sox involved) and apprehension after Dice-K didn't pan out.
Simply saying that the Jays weren't serious because they didn't bid more than another team did 5+ years ago is ridiculous. The market is completely different. If the conditions were the same, Darvish would've got bid for $60+ considering how much better he is than Dice-K.