I think "My Boys" have given up!

The Toronto Blue Jays lost again last night.

And Roy "Doc" Halladay was on the mound.

One run.

That's all the boys could muster for him.

It's like the spark has gone.

None of them seems to care any more.

Not Doc -- it's like he's just putting in time now until the chips fall where they may. His last few outings haven't quite been up to snuff. And when he's not on the mound, he looks like his mind is everywhere but there. He wants to be on a team that will deliver him that coveted World Series ring. Let's hope that the Jays' inability to support his brilliant performances don't hurt how other teams assess his stats, because his stats definitely don't do him justice.

Not Cito Gaston -- that poor man is sitting on the bench looking like he doesn't know where to turn next. I'm thinking he must be cursing the fact that he's not a quitting kind of man cuz if he could run, I'm bettin' he would! Why not? Rogers sold him a bill of goods when they lured him back to manage the team. Now they've got him there, they're not giving him any kind of support to do the job he was hired to do. In fact, it seems they're doing everything they can to make sure he fails at the job they hired him to do. Sometimes I just feel like reaching into the television screen and giving Cito a great big old hug and telling him it's OK, one day it will all be over and he can go back to living in Toronto in obscurity again. And f*&k Rogers for doing to him and our beloved Blue Jays what they did! Bad Rogers! Bad, bad Rogers!!

And certainly not the rest of the team -- how can the players possibly care? The owners clearly don't care. That lack of interest has now impacted on management. So overall team performance falters.

Last night's game was like watching a horrid version of the bad news bears.

The domino effect is huge when bad decisions are made.

And I'm afraid Rogers Incorporated (or whatever the actual name of the Blue Jays ownership is) has managed the Blue Jays into ruination.

This current series is with the Boston Red Sox -- a series that usually fills the Rogers Centre because so many people come up from Boston for those games. Yet there is barely half a stadium full of people at these games!

The Blue Jays fan base in Toronto is obviously gone!

And frankly, after what we witnessed on our visit for the Back2Back Reunion weekend, there is nothing especially stimulating being done to encourage visiting fans to return.

Perhaps Rogers' acquisition of the Toronto Blue Jays was the beginning of the end of major league baseball in Canada. The Blue Jays managed to run the Montreal Expos out of Canada. Maybe the owners' agenda is to run baseball out of Canada! That could explain why there are so many instances when the Rogers Sports Network -- home of the Toronto Blue Jays -- will air poker competitions rather than the Blue Jays game. Yeh, Rogers has definitely got baseball as a priority!

In Other News:

The Lockerbie bomber, al-Megrahi, has been released from prison.

So he can go home to die in the comfort of his family.

How compassionate of the Scottish justice system.

Too bad the same compassion was not afforded to the victims of PanAm Flight 103.