Major League Philosophy
battersbox.ca 10/27/2009 — Alex Anthopoulos's first order of duty is to come up with a philosophy for the team.  What is a team philosophy you ask?  Beeston and Anthopoulos stated in their first Saturday press conference that the organization first needs to define a ...

Blogger Nine Innings: The Tao of Stieb
nydailynews.com 10/26/2009 — What does Donal Logue have to do with baseball? Just a little wordplay off one of his movies is all. I like to run the interviews in the Blogger Nine Innings series with the name of the blogger, but the public persona of The Tao of Stieb , a ...

The 2009 Blue Jays in a Haiku
bluejayhunter.com 10/5/2009 — Tip of the cap to the ladies at Babes of Baseball for inspiring me to write this Haiku which pretty much summarizes the entire season for the Toronto Blue Jays; Memories of the spring Keep us warm in October . That and the bourbon. It ended in a way that we've become all too familiar with in ...

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Catcher Edition
feedproxy.google.com 30 days ago — In my last Toronto Blue Jays “Should I stay or Should I Go?” article I focused on the Blue Jays shortstop situation for next season, which involves two free agents named Marco Scutaro (Toronto’s starter in 2009) and John McDonald (backup shortstop and fan favorite). Today I would like ...

Now and Zen
ghostrunneronfirst.com 10/14/2009 — Obviously there is plenty going on in the baseball world and zero going on in Blue Jays world. Zero outside of, as the Tao smartly points out, AA doing the identical thing to J.P. (firing/shaking up scouts) without a peep emanating from the local slam ...

LWIB: The Blue Jays Flying in Turbulence
bizofbaseball.com 10/5/2009 — This week in LWIB, the Blue Jays ‘09 season concludes amidst great pessimism and uncertainty concerning the future fortunes of the franchise. BLUE JAYS UPDATE The Blue Jays’ 2009 season began with a 27-14 record. The Blue Jays completed the 2009 season with their second worst record ...

Note to Alex Anthopoulos: The Dan O'Dowd Model
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 10/26/2009 — As new Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos begins his first offseason with the Blue Jays as GM, there are plenty of questions surfacing about the direction of the team. -What will the Blue Jays do with Roy Halladay ? -Are the Blue Jays going to rebuild? ...

Where were you 16 years ago?
bluejayhunter.com 10/24/2009 — Today is a very special day - it's an occasion so momentous that it should almost be declared a national holiday in Canada. It was this very day 16 years ago that Joe Carter solidified himself as one of the greatest Blue Jays of all time by taking a Mitch Williams pitch deep to ensure the ...

Baseball Salaries 2009: Blue Jays crash and burn
list.canadianbusiness.com 10/17/2009 — Toronto is a hockey make that a Maple Leaf town. That may be a weird way of wrapping up yet another disappointing Blue Jays season , but general manager J.P. Ricciardi would have been run out of town long ago if he was in a baseball-mad city. As it ...

Jays GM wants return to basics
torontosun.com 10/17/2009 — Alex Anthopoulos' coming out party wasn't in prime time. The new Blue Jays general manager addressed the Jays development people at the Bobby Mattick facility in Dunedin, Fla., last Thursday at 7:30 a.m. "My life with the Jays flashed before me," ...

Blue Jays take interim tag off Beeston (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 10/27/2009
The Toronto Blue Jays are taking the interim tag off Paul Beeston's title. He was appointed president and CEO of the club and Rogers Centre for a three-year term Tuesday. Beeston took over from Paul Godfrey on an interim basis in October 2008. He said ...

Toronto Blue Jays officially name Paul Beeston as president, CEO — ESPN.com - MLB 10/27/2009
The Toronto Blue Jays are taking the interim tag off Paul Beeston's title.

AP-KN Poll: Fans says it's Yankees over Phillies — Boston.com -- Baseball News 10/27/2009
Baseball fans say it's the Yankees year. An Associated Press- Knowledge Networks poll released Tuesday shows that fans think New York will beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series and that Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez will be the Series ...

Beeston appointed new Jays CEO — Major League Baseball News 10/27/2009
The search ultimately ended where it began. On Tuesday, the Blue Jays announced that Paul Beeston would remain as the president and CEO of the ballclub and Rogers Centre in a three-year deal, removing the interim tag he has held for the past year.

Toronto names Beeston full-time president, CEO — SI.com - MLB 10/27/2009
TORONTO (AP) -- The Toronto Blue Jays are taking the interim tag off Paul Beeston's title.