Blue Jays’ house cleaning
When the axe fell on Toronto general manager J.P. Riccardi earlier this month, it sent a ripple throughout the farm system and Manchester.
– Toronto farm director Dick Scott was fired, and NH manager Gary Cathcart will not return for a third season with the Double-A Fisher Cats. I spoke with Cathcart over the weekend. He’ll continue to manage in the Arizona Fall League, which, might sound odd since he’s a lame-duck manager, but at least he’ll be able to start looking for a new job.
– Triple-A manager Mike Basso, Cathcart and Scott all have another year on their contract. Triple-A hitting coach Ken Joyce does not. Cathcart says he’ll forego the final year on the Toronto contract if he can land another field staff job in the minors.
“In this job, it’s not a good idea to stop working for 13 months, then try to get another job,” Cathcart said.
– Ricciardi, who also has a year on his contract, told ESPN reporter Amy Nelson on Twitter, “I’ll be the highest-paid AAU coach.” That’s tough to read if you’re one of the many Blue Jays employees recently laid off.
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Well, when you can pry yorself away ferom reporting on these losers, you can contact cardinal benjamin moore. He will hook you up with the paint and give you your job assignment.
As for the bill, hey it is your penance for stupid predicitons on boy roy and ricky romero. Nothing could possibly redeem your sins for having your proboscis connected to bonners back side.
Comment by THE POPE — October 15, 2009 @ 7:13 am
This is the best news that could have happened in the off season. Gary is GONE, GONE, GONE.
Now we can get back to winning and having pride again.
The only down fall is the Kenny Joyce got caught up in the process. Kenny is an outstanding batting coach and did not deserve to lumped with the rest of them.
Comment by Tammy — October 20, 2009 @ 10:40 am
In other news, the Toronto
Blue Jays have announced that
the contract of THE POPE has
been transferred to the Japanese Industrial League where he will continue in his duties as the WORST FAN EVER.
Comment by MikeP — October 20, 2009 @ 9:31 pm
worst fan?
Mike, I pray for you so that you get smarter about baseball. That should make ME, FAN OF THE YEAR in jimmy olson’s eyes!
Come on Mike, get with it.
Comment by THE POPE — October 22, 2009 @ 10:09 am