All these teams firing their managers and general managers.  As a Met fan my jealousy knows no bounds.

Has it really been since 2001?  I was in high school then and now I’m just out of graduate school.  And my future looks much, much brighter than J.P.‘s, not because my resume is all that but because I have no track record of destroying once-proud franchises.

I’m a Red Sox fan, but I’m a fan of competent organizations more than that.  Way to get the stench off, Toronto.  I wonder if attendance will increase solely to watch the non-J.P.‘d Jays.

I have no idea how someone could think JP ‘destroyed’ the Jays.  Is he a great GM?  No, but at worst, he did a decent job in Toronto and left them with a good, young core of players.  Any new GM is going to build off of guys like Hill, Lind, Snider, Marcum, Romero, and maybe some other guys.

The Jays aren’t some organization in tatters, they’re a relatively good team that’s had some awful luck this season.  They aren’t in great shape, but they could be contenders pretty soon if things go their way.

He’ll get some GM job in a few years, take that team to the playoffs, and Blue Jays fans will whine about him not being able to do that in Toronto, even though his new team could very well be weaker than some of his Jays teams.

I wonder to what extent the Rays’ success also helped spell doom for J.P. Andy Friedman takes over a laughingstock franchise and accomplishes in three years what Ricciardi couldn’t do in eight, and with a payroll about half the size. Fans can buy into the myth that Friedman did little but inherit a burgeoning farm system, but odds are Toronto’s ownership knows better.

Bottom line, the franchise didn’t get any better while Ricciardi was running it. There were good moves, there were bad moves, but in the end the net result on the field was zero. The Jays were hovering around third when he got there; they’re hovering around third now. His job was to make them better and he didn’t.