Read an interesting article over at Bleacher Report and it sounds like the writer (Mark Dewdney) shares some of my optimism for the future of our team.
The general concept of the article is that with Bud Selig's pending retirement (before the 2012 season), Baseball will appoint a new commissioner to "fix" the little things wrong with our sport, such as the absence of a meaningful salary cap. Couple that with the idea that the Jays package of prospects received in an inevitable Roy Halladay deal will blossom around the same time (2012) and the Jays will be right in the mix for contention.
A couple things I don't necessarily agree with in the article:
1. "Players came here because of Pat Gillick, and they will come because of Alex Anthopoulous."
- Any kind of evidence to support this statement??
2. "Would you have signed with the Blue Jays in the last decade? You'd have to have been blind, which, incidentally, is what Halladay, Wells, and others are thinking when they look in the mirror."
- I guess A.J. Burnett, B.J. Ryan, Frank Thomas and everyone else were just blinded by the money J.P. threw at them. Last time I checked, the Blue Jays were a promising contender in 2006/2007 and if things broke the right way, they would have enjoyed a lot more success (thanks TJ surgery!).
- What the hell does Vernon Wells care?? He's getting paid to the tune of $126 million over 7 years. With the way he's been playing lately, he's lucky to be a starting CF on any major league team, let alone making the kind of money he's making. If he had signed that deal with the Yanks as a free agent and was putting up the kind of performance he is now, the Yanks wouldn't stand for it. He'd be DFA'd and released (only the Yanks have the ability to eat a contract THAT BAD).
3. "Roy Halladay is going to either the Yankees or Red Sox"
- As much as I HOPE this isn't true, Dewdney might eventually be right about this one, but for what it's worth it's like predicting Team Canada to win gold in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Real tough call there bud.
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Like I said yesterday, let's make this damn Halladay deal already and start getting excited about the future.
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