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Toronto Star: Richard Griffin Mailbag
Published 6/5/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Toronto Star: Richard Griffin Mailbag And look for the cutting eggy Griffin call Roger Clemens..."Mindy’s Main Man” and “McNamee’s bum-boy”. He so funny. When will sports writers such as yourself realize that dumping Frank Thomas resulted in the turnaround by the Jays? Without Thomas, the Jays are no longer a power hitting team. They now feature, pitching, defence and “small ball”. The Jays are playing winning baseball without Thomas. Signing him was a mistake, but dumping him seems to have salvaged the season. A: Dude, you’re like someone who reads Tolstoy’s epic War and ...

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Published 6/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Stoeten) at Drunk Jays Fans
... No, no, seriously... Griffin actually kind of nailed it this week. For him, at least. At least, I thought he did. He wrote a mail bag that was generally pretty good-- and almost wholly uncringeworthy-- except, well... it's a pretty glib assessment to say that the Frank Thomas signing was only about OBP... and um... Steve Rogers is a .500 pitcher, which I once heard was a bad thing... and I'm not sure if I'd put Wetteland over Henke or Walker/Oliver over Molitor/Winfield (even if only considering their careers in Canada), and... what else? Nah... that was pretty much ...