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{Blue Jays brass can’t take a chance by bringing back John Gibbons next season: Cox}
Featured VideoClose More Video Kyle Tommy One Joe Carter: Doping has taken away from baseball Story So Far: MLB Steroid Scandal Kyle Back From Damien Cox’s Spin on Sports blog:-Paul Beeston and Alex Anthopoulos are nice guys. Ask around and you might not need both hands to count up the number of people in the industry who dislike both or either.Bringing back John Gibbons next season, meanwhile, would be the nice thing to do. Nobody could fairly blame Gibbons for all that has gone wrong; at the same time, he’s hardly come in and re-set the table or established a new winning culture. Almost certainly, he’ll have a worse record with the Jays this season than did the despised John Farrell last season, and Farrell has less talent at his disposal and just as many problematic injuries.Still,[url=http://www.longchamp-handbags-outlet.net]longchamp le pliage[/url], the nice thing would be to bring back Gibbons, right?Except it’s time for Beeston and Anthopoulos to stop being nice guys and deliver a winning ballclub after this underachieving catastrophe of a season.Start being disliked around baseball if that’s what it takes. If they need an example to follow, look at Jim Popp with the Montreal Alouettes. He realized he’d made a terrible hire with Dan Hawkins and ended the experiment quickly after five games.Gibbons was a weird hire for this team at this time and didn’t work out. There’s no crime in that. Who knows, pigs may fly and he might make this a winning team next year. But this was his second shot. You can’t say the Jays haven’t been fair.Moreover, Beeston and Anthopoulos can’t take the chance.Or they may be risking their own fates.-- What's your view? View on Poll Daddy When you talk about all the off-season acquisitions that didn’t pan out for the Jays, don’t include Mark Buehrle in the conversation.Buehrle has been almost exactly as advertised, maybe even a little better than advertised given the stone hands behind him. He’s picked up 10 wins for a 13th straight season, seems low maintenance, remains a quick worker from the mound and is an excellent fielder, very useful indeed on a team that struggles on its best nights to play quality defence.--Those interested in Canadian tennis should be watching the U.S. Open starting today with one eye on the six Canadians involved and one eye on the performance of the various Serbian men’s players.Don’t forget, the next Davis Cup round begins the weekend after the U.S. Open champions are crowned, a semifinal clash between Canada and Serbia in Belgrade.At first blush, this seemed to be a rout-in-the-making for the Serbs, who won the Davis Cup behind Novak Djokovic’s brilliance in 2010. But Victor Troicki is suspended for a doping violation, Janko Tipsarevic is struggling and doubles specialist Nenad Zimonjic is nearly as old as Canada’s Daniel Nestor.Canada, with Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil and Frank Dancevic, has more men in the U.S. Open draw than the Serbs. Djokovic,[url=http://www.longchamp-handbags-outlet.net]longchamp sale[/url], meanwhile, is No. 1 in the world and expected to at least make the semifinals, but the turnaround to the Davis Cup tie will be quick and he may not make it to Belgrade until mid-week.So Serbia remains the favourite and should win. That said, Canada has a decent shot at the upset, and what happens in New York in the next fortnight could impact its chances. Remember, in the best-of-five setup, they don’t have to beat Djokovic. Beat Tipsarevic twice and win the doubles and Canada would be in the Davis Cup final for the first time.--Clock’s got to be ticking on Rex Ryan.The loquacious one is getting hammered in the Big Apple again for a decision, this time after electing on Saturday night to insert incumbent starter Mark Sanchez into an exhibition tilt against the Giants with just over 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter.Sanchez ended up hurting his shoulder, and rookie Geno Smith, who tossed three interceptions earlier in the game, may get the job by default.“Dead Coach Walking” was one of the headlines in the New York Post today.--If you’re scoring at home, Alex Rodriguez has one home run and two RBIs in his last 10 games. And the home run and ribbies came in one game.--These things have happened since Notre Dame qualified for title game in U.S. college football last winter.They were crushed 42-14 by Alabama. The Manti T’eo “catfishing” story was unveiled to the embarrassment of all. Running back Cierre Wood went into NFL draft and nobody took him. Brian Kelly interviewed for NFL job before insisting he was “committed” to the Irish. Top QB recruit Gunner Kiel transferred to Cincinnati. Starting quarterback Everett Golson was suspended for “poor academic judgment” and won’t play this year.Touchdown Jesus can’t be pleased.--Saskatchewan’s Kory Sheets is the best player in CFL this season and it’s not close, at least not so far. After only eight games he’s already got 1,058 yards rushing, the first player in league history to crack the 1,000 yard barrier that quickly.Sheets may not just break Mike Pringle’s single season mark of 2,065. He may obliterate it. Against Edmonton on the weekend, he was unstoppable when it mattered most.Regina, meanwhile, is 7-1. The Roughriders haven’t started like that since 1970.--Interesting bit from Tyler Kepner in N.Y. Times. Twenty-seven years ago, on Aug. 17, 1986, Cincinnati’s Pete Rose became the last major leaguer to perform the player-manager role when used himself as a pinch-hitter against San Diego. He struck out and never played again.Will we see another player manager again? Kepner notes both Paul Konerko and Jason Giambi received player-manager consideration last off-season from the White Sox and Rockies, respectively, but neither was hired.--Tampa Bay manager Joe Madden on Ryan Dempster hitting A-Rod: “I believe in players controlling the game itself in regards to what’s happening in that game, and we always talk about policing that. But (what Dempster did) is totally separate from the unwritten rules of baseball. So, I do not agree with that at all.”--Will Mikhail Grabovski soar in Washington? Maybe. Adam Oates had great success coaxing both Ilya Kovalchuk and Alex Ovechkin to make changes in their games, and maybe he can do the same with Grabovski.The strange thing about Grabovski is he has skill, can skate like the wind and competes hard. He should have been the consistent answer for the Maple Leafs at the No. 2 centre position, but he wasn’t. He can bellyache all he wants about ice time but he had more than a reasonable opportunity to thrive in Toronto.Behind Nicklas Backstrom with the Capitals, he’ll be in the same position, striving to be an effective No. 2. More important, he’ll get far less scrutiny. Perhaps that’s what he needs.
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