Really now people need to stop looking at most mainstream sports writers articles and hope on the blog :)

Sounds like a child arguing with their parents, “YOU ARE THE WORST MOM EVER!”

Most of the people who believe in this “Rogers is at fault” thing are generally the unintelligent part (not all but most) of the fanbase (which is the majority). Detroit and the Angels are both completely out of the playoff race starting within 3 years. (Time to find out how old Pujols really is).

they need to start questioning what the TV rights are worth, Rogers deflects any payroll questions with attendance being the excuse. Canada’s a big TV market for one team to have, Roger’s would have to pay a fortune for the rights at market value, and on top of that they pocket all of the revenue generated by that content.

Mentions missing out on Gio and Latos on top of Fielder and Darvish —____—

Sun “Media” is also a rival of Rogers in various media. It’s not like the Sun would pass up a chance to stick to a rival (even if the rival also owns most of the local sports properties that it has to cover.)

Dear Alex Anthopolous,

Quickly spend as much money as you can squeeze out of the hands of your owner. It is the best way to earn their trust and more importantly win games.

Yours,
JP Riccardi

CC: Vernon Wells, Alex Rios, BJ Ryan, Frank Thomas, AJ Burnett,

…in the Star. I stopped listening to The Fan a while ago, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the brainless idiots babbling for dollars there are bemoaning the Jays not signing Prince, too.

If they ever prefect brain transplants, and I have a serious head injury, I hope there’s a donor brain available from a sports writer or sports caster. Why? It would be like new – never used.

For the casual baseball fan, I can see why the lack of high-profile signings by the Jays is perplexing. After all, without a salary cap, why not pursue every high priced free agent at all costs? Buffery is undoubtedly missing the mark on this article. While Buffery is focused on the lump sum of cash involved in signing high profile free agents, he is missing the fact that at $214M over 9 years, Fielder has to produce at a rate of 5.2 WAR per year ($4.5M per WAR) over the lifetime of his contract. Fielder has average 3.9 WAR per year over his 6 full seasons, making it unlikely he will earn his “true” value on his contract, especially when you account for the rate at which heavy-set slugger age. I believe this was the main reason we did not sign Fielder as we wouldn’t get our bang for out bang, not that we wouldn’t want to raise our payroll by x amount of dollars.

If, however, situations were different and Fielder was much more likely to earn his $219M, don’t you think Rogers would fork over the dough? If you want to compare this situation to the Yankees, did they fork out the dough to acquire these high profile guys? The Yankees needed pitching more than we did and yet they didn’t go all out to acquire Yu, knowing that doing so comes at a great risk of losing your investment.

as Rogers expects AA to build a contender and fan attendance/viewership to increase BEFORE it boosts payroll.

Diehards buy into that, but more casual fans see it as the same old song and dance.

By the by, isn’t it time to change AA’s nickname to HH? For Harry Houdini.

I’m sorry if this is a stupid question. As I understood it, Rogers is a company. But isn’t he also 1 man? I mean is there a dude named Rogers that wears expensive suits and a white fedora hat and drinks single malt scotch, neat of course? I know nothing about Rogers and while I understand that it is a very large media company I always assumed that there was some dude that walks around 1 Blue Jays Way smoking a Cuban and flirting with the ladies.

‘cause if there is a dude named Rogers I’m thinking that maybe, just maybe, he flirted with this reports wife, caused his divorce and has his children calling him daddy now.

Closed the article off after the third paragraph (almost after the first with that BS about “Pal Hal” wanting to win).