The Florida Marlins are very much in contention for a wild card birth in
the NL
on a $17 million dollar player payroll. This is amazing when you compare
it to
the 70 million Blue Jay budget for 2006. The Marlins earlier traded all
their high-priced stars for prospects earlier in the year.
Their future for next year looks good, much better than that of the Jays.
Some baseball "experts" will say the National League is not as strong as
the American
and the Jays have to contend with the big spending Yankees and Red Sox.
But looking back
at the 2006 season the Jays were swept by both the Marlins and Colorado in
inter league play.
The NL did not seem that weak to the Jays then.

And the Marlins are not the only low-spending franchise that is doing
really well.
This is the second time the Marlins have done this and they have already
won two Word Series
as a result.

Look at the surging Minnesota Twins who may take the AL Central
championship. Their player payroll is
substantially less than that of the Jays.

The Jays' main weakness has been its scouting for talent and its farm
system.
Its Triple A team, the Syracuse Chiefs, almost every year is in or is near
last place.
In 2006, the past year, the Chiefs were abysmal.

Even the Yankees have produced better farm prospects than the Jays over
the last decade.
Several of their star players have been home grown such as Derek Jeter,
Jorge Pasada, Miariano Rivera,
Andy Pettit (who left as a free agent), Nick Johnson (traded away), Melky
Cabrero, Scott Proctor,
and Robinson Cano.

A sports writer in the Toronto Sun pointed out that the Jays, system under
five years of J.P Ricciardi
has produced thus far only one solid prospect, Aaron Hill. Adam Lind may
be another, if Ricciardi
doesn't trade him away in another bad deal.

John Lambourn, posting as "Perspicacious" wrote . . .


You must miss the old days when your trolls started threads containing
hundreds of responses. Now "Brian Daily" is troll-king in can.politics
& you're a desperate, washed-up old fool.

Eric

"Age will not wither me, nor custom stale my infinite variety".

Nothing lasts forever. And the Usenet is not what it used to be with both
Rogers and Netscape
dropping the service.

But who the hell is Brian Daily? I just checked and he has a total of
three postings
with only three of four followups on my newsreader. And the guy seems to
be just another
anti-U.S. socialist like you so why would you call him a troller since you
both think alike, Mark.
Oh, I get it. Brian Daily is just another one of your fake names.

But thanks for the compliment anyway when you wrote, "your trolls started
threads containing hundreds
of responses" in the good old days. If you check again you will find that
my recent post on Stephen Harper did rattle quite a few
leftist cages.

As for the post above re the Blue Jays, the truth and logic of it are
impeccable. Many people no doubt just
read it and accepted the analysis without making any comment. Anyhow,
sadly, the baseball season for the
Jays is over.

BTW. You still haven't told us what has become of your old partner in
crime, David Reilley.
It is just that he has been proved wrong so many times, on so many issues
that he just could
not accept any more embarrassment and punishment on the Net?

Perspicacious <perspicacious@cyberpunk.com> trolled:


Sympatico dropped it, as well.

It has gotten to be too much of a pain since the IPS's feel they
have to police usenet. They don't have to police usenet.

cordially, as always,

rm

Perspicacious wrote:

Finally, the media is catching on to what a lot of us have been saying
for a while.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5911594

Perspicacious wrote:

Finally, the media is catching on to what a lot of us have been saying
for a while.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5911594

"goldensection@gmail.com" wrote . . .

A very 'perspicacious' comment!

Eric

goldensection@gmail.com trolled:


We have been saying this since Ricky Riccardo's very first day on
the job.

cordially, as always,

rm

You got to kidding or just a dumb ass
troll?

With an under .500 recorded and in the
hunt for a wild amongst a bunch of
perennial losers.

Ya what a classy team with an asshole
owner to boot.how many times has he
threatened to move the team and how about the way he has dealt with the
players.


And despite all the socalled talent they had last year,they still will
not fare much
different this year.
A long shot for post season.

All of them more than happy to leave btw.

The marlins are the farm team of national
league (fatten them up and sell to the highest bidder)
{look under montreal expos for a further clue}

As to the jays,I don't think anyone could
despute they had a better season this year than last.

Not that I really think that jp had much
effect on the out come either way as many of the players who excelled
this
season where left overs.

A couple of the new guys did play well
this season as well,but not good enough
to compensate for the pitching woes,that
where brought to a head with the stupid
lilly incident this season.Nor the asinine
remark jp made before the break.

If the jays had even gotten a few more
wins from towers,chacin,and burnett.
who knows.but thats an if and if's don't
count for much other than a little merit
when it comes to post season play.

As and as long as teams like the yakees
are alowed to plunder the leagues and
pay any price to win thier division everyyear,which btw is nothing more
than
buba going to the corner 7-11 for a
six pack.
There will be no parody in mlb especialy
the al east.

Which over more than a few years now
has produced a very boreing first round
of play off's makeing,the whole thing
looking even more foolish,when the yanks
are done in as usual,as they will be this
year again...but enough that the yanker
faithfull will continue to yell buy buy no
matter what the price and fill stinkbrenner
's padded cell.

Sure some teams with a lesser payroll
have surfaced as the cream on the top
but not as often and not as for long.

Soon those players who surfaced with
those teams become sought after,with
visions of huge over blown and over
rated pay day's.

And that team becomes decimated and
plunder for the highest bidder.

Of which the marlins are no exception
in deed.

More often that not its the stink of
greed and money the surfaces to the
top.




Wed, Sep 13, 2006, 8:29am From: perspicacious@cyberpunk.com
(Perspicacious)
The Florida Marlins are very much in contention for a wild card birth in
the NL
on a $17 million dollar player payroll

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