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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle

- Giving up home advantage in the playoffs was ridiculous given the Jays stats on the road versus home, and shutting the team down early was a bad mistake....... Well it took 3 games for the Jays to wake up against Texas, and not having home advantage cost them dearly against KC. Now I don't think they would have beaten KC regardless, but being the visiting team surely put them behind the 8 ball..

Blue Jays were 91-65 and the Royals were 90-66 with six games remaining. IIRC the Blue Jay's clinched the AL east in the first game of a double header and didn't player their starters in the last game and the game after. Well usually when there are double headers you don't player your starters in the second game. Secondly the last game in the series was a rainout, I don't even play Gibbons for not letting his players play, that is just calling for injuries for a team that had everything to lose. The series against the Rays they tried to win, they just lost to some really good pitching. You're spinning it as if they didn't even bother trying after they clinched the AL East, of course they tried.

- Gibbons, AA, or both should lose their job over the way the end of the season was handled...... I probably overreacted with AA, but I stand by the fact that Gibbons should have lost his job (he would have had they lost to Texas). In fact, the silver lining of Shapiro was that I figured we would be rid of Gibbons. Unfortunately that is not going to be the case. They'll wait until 2017 for that.

Why should they lose their jobs again? They were AL East champs, doesn't speak of the need to be fired to me. They weren't world series champs, but they certainly weren't unsuccessful.

- After seeing AA's end of the year conference, I said I didn't feel he was going to re-up with Toronto because he wouldn't work under Shapiro and wasn't happy with likely a shrinking Budget over the next few years (gave a snarky remark about having to ask someone above his pay grade on budget at the press conference). Multiple posters said I was reading more into that than I should and was being negative....... It appears I was quite correct on that front, and fully stand by the comment that this debacle will further damage the bad reputation the Jays already have around the league.

The Blue Jays are a top 10 team in payroll and they have been for the last 3 years. In fact how is it not impressive that Rogers is letting the Blue Jays keep their payroll with a dropping Canadian dollar, bad reputation or not.

- People were talking about resigning Price and Estrada and bolstering a couple holes in the lineup, and I said I doubt this given how cheap Rogers is and their propensity to not reinvest profits into the baseball club...... Can't be right or wrong on that yet, but watch Brunt's interview with Tim and Sid and read between the lines. This team will be nowhere near the top ten in the league on payroll once 2017 rolls around. They won't be reallocating the money they save when Bautista and Edwin leave

I don't see any indication that they will decrease their spending on payroll this. Brunt was just mentioning that their window is small, which it is. Yeah once 2017 rolls around they might spend less if Bautista or Encarnacion are gone, I don't see why that is a bad thing, why would you spend cash in a year where your top sluggers are gone? Theres no point in spending cash when you know you're losing. But thats 2017, which is a year from now. I'll enjoy this next season with the Blue Jays being top contenders.