2009 Lind vs 2010 Lind

Well that’s to be expected on a “Cito” team. He preaches swinging at strikes no matter what the count, dont give up good pitches. The team as a whole is hitting impatiently save for Escobar and Bautista. I think your being a bit overcritical of him though, in a season where he’s struggled mightily he’s still managed to put up respectable power numbers, he’ll probably break the 20hr plateau, pretty impressive considering he hit sub .200 in april + may. I think your whole 2009 Lind vs 2010 Lind comparison is a little odd, I mean if 2009 Lind came in and took the AB, he’d probably be like wtf too, because pitchers are not pitching Lind the same at all this season, every team in the mlb made adjustments to Lind in the offseason as he and Hill were identified as the jays two primary threats in the line-up. If Lind comes back next season and is still struggling, then I’ll be concerned. For now I think we can chalk it off to a combination of growing pains and adjustments for Lind and a terrible approach to the plate caused by bushleague style management cough CITO.

He’s not juicing anymore

Signed, Damien Cox.

I didn’t say Cito preaches swinging at every pitch, I said every strike, learn to read ohmybosh. And batting Snider in the 9th spot when even John McDonald is in the line-up is bushleague! It doesn’t make any sense, neither does keep Wells in the 4 spot the last 3 months, when he hasn’t had an ops over .800. While I agree Cito has an excellent resume, he was the right coach on the right team at the right time, the team was stacked with veteran players/established young talent that didn’t need a true manager as much as they needed a motivator. This team on the other hand needs more than just a motivator for a manager. There’s a reason Cito was out of baseball for so many years, no team would hire him, gotta be a reason for that don’t you think? How many championship winning managers dont get a job for 15 years?

Well I may have been overzealous in my claim he was out of baseball completely for 15 years, forgive me, he was out of baseball in any significant way for 11 years. He managed the team from 95-97 after the lockout, with no success, and was fired on a bad note as he took a vacation at the end of the 97 season and skipped the post season evaluation process seemingly completely disinterested in the club. He had another stint as a hitting coach with the jays for two seasons from 1999-2001, woop di doo. After that, he tried to get a managerial position with many other teams and only got past the 1st interview once with the white sox. After that he said he’d only manage again if he was hired on the spot without an interview! Then he got a job as special assistant to paul godfrey in 2002, nothing more than a hand out job after he lost his job as hitting coach, considering Keith Law was once ‘special assistant’ to JP Ricciardi. He’s a pretty good hitting coach, but he’s not the greatest manager. Like i said there’s a reason he’s never got hired by another club. So anyways let me correct myself, there’s only a 11 year managerial gap in his career, and the only other jobs he had between then were sucking paul godfrey off and 2 years as a hitting coach. When a guy can’t get a job as a manager when teams actually sit him down and listen to him and only gets hired by one franchise for the majority of his career due to managing as I said earlier, the right team at the right time in 92+93 (also the team with highest payroll, its not like he got those teams to overachieve and win) he’s BUSHLEAGUE. Anyways I’d like to point out I’m not a jays hater, their my pride and joy, I’m just not putting the blinders on to Cito’s everyday bullshit.

I dont know how you could call that comment homophobic, nowhere in my comment did I express hate for homosexuals. If could called it inappropriate, I could understand that but even then, anyone with internet has heard people say much worse things on a blog, so stop being such a nancy.

Anyone who’s ever read a drunkjaysfans blogp has heard worse really.