The Official Site of The Toronto Blue Jays: News: Notes: Jays deny Law's report

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 The Official Site of The Toronto Blue Jays: News: Notes: Jays deny Law's report
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays insist that it's a non-issue. Keith Law, who spent more than four years as an advisor to Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi before joining ESPN as a baseball writer, referenced a conversation that the Jays say never took place. That's why the the team isn't getting that worked up over it. "It's so comical that I don't know whether to laugh or to throw up," ... [link]

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The sharp tongue of the Law
Published 6/24/2008 by Tao of Stieb (noreply@blogger.com) at The Tao of Stieb
This week's Drunk Jays Fans podcast was another knee slapper, even if it wasn't downloadable on iTunes for the second week in a row. (And yes, we know there are workarounds to get the damn mp3 on our iPod, but it's immensely more satisfying for us to pout and complain about sitting in front of our computer to listen.) This week's guest was ESPN.com's Keith Law, who indulged in a bit of schadenfreude at the shite state of affairs in which his former boss J.P. Ricciardi finds himself. Law is very funny, and to be perfectly honest, we could see ourselves letting loose on some of our former employers given half the chance. Clearly, these guys aren't BFF's. But ...

Baseball Today: Tuesday, June 24
Published 6/24/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE . . . Well, we don't have a winner in this one yet. But while former Blue Jays front-office advisor Keith Law, who now works for ESPN, is out telling people that Vernon Wells has told the Jays he's not interested in signing a long-term extension (mlb.com), his former boss, J.P. Ricciardi, is telling folks that ...

Correction
Published 6/24/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Parkes) at Drunk Jays Fans
Just because I rather enjoy being a shit in the cut of mistakes, I'd like to point out that all of the Keith Law and J.P. Ricciardi talk on this site and the Tao of Stieb has caused Projo SoxBlog to report on a potential Vernon Wells contract extension as actual news ...

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