🎧BJHH: 129 - Ross the Boss
The Blue Jays' GM chose to meet with the media on the Saturday morning of Canada's first long weekend of the summer to talk about his team's full calendar year of wheel-spinning. What could go wrong?
Jays GM Ross Atkins met with reporters over the weekend, taking questions for over 20 minutes, but offering little in the way of solutions to the offensive woes that continue to make life difficult for the Blue Jays.
His core message—“We feel with time and the talent that's on the team that we can certainly see righting this ship, however, that needs to start pretty soon”—will have sounded awfully familiar to Jays fans who’ve been hearing similar things for over a year now. But did he offer more than just the same old platitudes?
In this episode, Nick and Stoeten dissect what he had to say, and also comment on the offence as a whole, plus the need to take advantage of a soft spot in the schedule, Alek Manoah’s resurgence, whether Joey Votto can help this team, and much more!
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I guess I simply don't understand why teams constantly place the GM front row center when it's clear they don't all have the ability to handle that. Running a ball club and handling the media/market seem like two vastly divergent skillsets. These are billion-dollar organizations, they can't afford to pay a PR person $150,000 to take strays for the team? C'mon man....