thestar.com - 12/12/2008
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Richard Griffin LAS VEGAS- I t's a tough, tough decision to make, but the time has come for the Jays to trade Roy Halladay to a contending club and get a combination package of ready-for-prime-time and future players. The current market shows that there are clubs with needs that would be willing ...
mopupduty.com - 12/13/2008
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mopupduty.com —
Ok. AJ has officially left us. What are
we to do? JP’s used car lot is in...
full swing, buying an arm in Clement with 600,000+ km’s on it and trying to sell it back to Jays fans as good as new. Well he hasn’t done it yet, but he will. And it’s not a lie if he knows the truth, right?
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I Think We're Alone Now
totalprosports.com - 12/16/2008
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totalprosports.com —
Total Pro Sports - The baseball winter meetings
have come and gone. Carsten Charles Sabathia decided to...
accept the 7 year 161 million dollar contract from the New York Yankees , only a couple days after telling Dodger GM Ned Colletti that he wanted to play for them. If anything it shows how ...
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Which Road Do The Jays Choose?
mopupduty.com - 12/12/2008
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Richard Griffin Must Have Returned Home
Drunk Jays Fans —
... After covering the winter meetings with all the aplomb of a professional at his peak, Richard Griffin returned home to suggest that the Blue Jays should trade Roy Halladay because . . . well, because Griffin believes the Blue Jays are abusing him by keeping him around. You know, because apparently Halladay bent over backwards and took a hometown discount to sign an extension in 2006 at three years for $40 million, and the Blue Jays owe it to him to trade him to a contender. ...
The Honeymoon Is Over
Drunk Jays Fans —
... Trading Halladay only fair, the title says, and... ugh, in it he makes a poorly thought-out case for trading the Jays' ace. ...
Yanks Sign Burnett, Bomber Bloggers Blanch
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... As The Star’s Richard Griffin watches Burnett pack his bags, he figures Toronto ought to trade Roy Halliday (”with the loonie tanking, sponsors leaving the Jays in droves and layoffs in abundance, it would be unseemly for a major league organization like the Jays to spend the next two years begging their only superstar to give them a hometown discount because he’s so important”), a proposal Stoeten of ...
An open letter to Scott Carson
The Tao of Stieb —
... earlier this week? Another "Doc is on his way out" blast....really? You don't think that bullshitty speculative angle hasn't been beaten - ...
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