I'm delving into uncharted territory here. I'm going to discuss something I know little about and I'm admitting it.
Alex Rios was claimed off waivers by the Chicago White Sox today essentially taking him off the books of the Blow Jerks and saving them $60 gazillion dollars or something like that.
I'm no fan of the Blow Jerks or boreball but I casually follow it (read I watch the Toronto Sports Network and have to follow it). So this JP Ricciardi guy has been managing the Blow Jerks for some time now and was supposed to bring in moneyball (some sort of state lottery I think). Rather he brought in spend money and drop ball.
According to some blogger on the Toronto Sports Network he wasted money on Frank Thomas, BJ Ryan, AJ Burnett, Vernon Wells, and now is losing Alex "His name is Rios and he dances in the sand" for nothing. How do you lose a player who is under contract for nothing these days? Couldn't they at least have traded him for Ozzie Guillen's goatee or a hat?
Maybe the better question is how is it that Ricciardi still has a job in Toronto?
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Fear not, Paduwan, I am putting together a post explaining how this move both works and doesn't work.
Now, having said that, yes Riccardi has been a bad GM. Unlike a lot of people in Toronto, however, I didn't hate him from the get-go....but again, probably by tonight, I'll have my post up on it.
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