Frank Thomas released by Blue Jays

I’m sorry that Frank had to go. I really like the idea having a team that sticks together and wins. And I hate the idea of people being moved around the way they are - not only the players, but their families. However, keeping players together on one team just doesn’t seem to be very realistic these days. Sports such as baseball, hockey, basketball seem to be about the strategy of getting the right mix of players and coaches as much as anything else.

However, I was astonished and very unhappy by the way that Frank Thomas reacted to the initial benching by John Gibbons.  Maybe he knew more that was said to the public, but what happened to acting for the good of the team? John Macdonald seems to understand that. Jose Calderon understands it to the max! All I heard from Thomas was me, me, me. So I’m not upset about seeing him go. If he can’t handle being benched for a while to see if that shakes things up and gets the team winning without spouting off to the media and refusing to sit with the team, then, in my books as well as Riccardi’s, he’s out of here.

Bonds - I hope not. We don’t need that circus coming to town. Let’s just focus on baseball for a while and see what the players we have in the organization can do. So far, I’m liking a lot of what I’m seeing. They’re playing a bit of small ball, trying to mix it up and see what they can generate without waiting for the home run. I like that. A lot.  Go Jays