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SIMMONS: Time to say goodbye to Blue Jays management duo of Shapiro, Atkins
He already knew it wouldn’t happen but despite that, Steve Simmons was willing Blue Jays chairman Edward Rogers to get rid of team president Mark Shapiro and general manager Ross Atkins following their disastrous season.
In the nine years Shapiro and Atkins have been around, they’ve accomplished very little and while it’s the players that are the face of the team, make no mistake — this is Shapiro’s and Atkins’ team and, thus, their failure.
But, alas, they remain — as questions abound about the future of some of the aforementioned players. As the Jays and their fan base wait for what’s to come, with Shapiro and Atkins, it’s going to be a long wait.
Michael Schumacher makes first appearance in public since ski accident: Report
It’s been more than a decade since Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher was spotted in public.
It was his daughter Gina-Marie’s wedding to Iain Bethke at the Schumacher family’s luxury Mallorca villa, so he didn’t venture far — but it was the first time in years many had seen Schumacher, Dan Bilicki reported.
Schumacher and his immediate family have been protective of his privacy since he suffered a traumatic head injury in a skiing accident in 2013.
Given it was believed to be the first time Schumacher has been in public, interacting with friends and family members since his accident, wedding guests were required to leave their phones at the door before entering.
But it was also a sign that wife Corinna’s approach to Michael’s privacy could be softening.
Ryan Reaves rides middle of the road in fallout of Patrik Laine injury
The rivalry between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens became even more heated last weekend when Cedric Pare of the Leafs turned his knee into Habs forward Patrick Laine’s left leg, Lance Hornby reported.
Laine needed help to the dressing room and the play was unpenalized, but that didn’t stop Montreal enforcer Arber Xhekaj from confronting Pare on his next shift in a flurry of hard, gloved punches to the back of the head that got him ejected.
For what it’s worth, Leafs’ Ryan Reaves could see both sides, who called the play on Laine “unfortunate” but also knows Pare “wasn’t trying to do anything malicious.”
Reaves also didn’t blame Xhekaj for stirring things up, saying that he may have done the same thing if the roles were reversed.
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HUNTER: Suspected cop shooter described as ‘complete ass****’
“Complete ass****.” “Real f***head.” “Muppet.”
Those were the descriptors one veteran detective used to describe suspected cop shooter Tibor Orgona, Brad Hunter reported.
The 21-year-old alleged triggerman sent a Toronto plainclothes officer to emergency with a bullet wound to the abdomen, but the detective is expected to recover.
Orgona has a wide-ranging record, his latest charges being attempted murder, firearm offences and breaching probation.
But it’s the government’s soft-on-crime approach that is increasingly putting cops and the public at risk that the detective has issues with.
“Almost everyone we arrest is out on bail. No one stays in jail where they belong. Who stays in custody is a moving target and no one is really sure what the parameters are,” the detective said. “You can get sprung for the most violent offences now.”
The detective blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, adding that Ontario Premier Doug Ford is the only politician trying to do something.
“Toronto is a total disaster.”
‘Sick of the talk,’ Blue Jays Kevin Gausman asks: What are we going to do now?
Like many of us, we expected the Blue Jays to have done big things in recent years.
When Kevin Gausman signed his five-year, $110 million US deal to become a cornerstone of the Jays starting rotation back in December of 2021, he obviously didn’t sign up for this — a team that was out of playoff contention by mid-summer.
With two years remaining on his contract, Gausman is understandably frustrated and told Rob Longley that he is “sick of the ‘talent’ talk,” and as he and many of the other vets get older, he admitted they don’t have a lot of time to figure out how to pivot and get back on track.
So now what? Well, Gausman has some ideas — but will wait to see what GM Atkins and the rest of baseball operations have to say and do in the off-season.
But one thing he’s certain of: “We all need to get better.”