The Morning After - What's Being Said About the Halladay Deal

Friday, January 23 2004 @ 08:17 AM EST

I thought I'd see what various Canadian papers are saying about the Roy Halladay deal. The response in Canada has been across a wide spectrum of emotions; from jubilance to Griffin.

• Steven Brunt of the Globe and Mail believes that the Jays are "banking on something else besides Ricciardi's genius and a run of good luck: an expanded baseball playoff format, sooner rather than later".
  
  
• The Globe's other Jays related article recaps the off-season acquistions by the Jays.
  
  
• Yesterday the Globe ran an article by William Houston indicating that the Jays are considering putting some games on pay-per-view. Nothing to do with Halladay, but I thought I'd add it in because you may have missed it.
  
  
• Slam Sports, which contains articles from the Toronto Sun, has a recap of the days events by Jon Cook.
  
  
• Oddly enough, the Winnipeg Sun has a Steve Simmons article that I can't find at the Toronto Sun. Simmons, who tends to be very critical of, well, everyone, closes his article by saying "The Jays don't need more seats, just more wins. And they can't expect any more from Halladay. He has earned this contract -- and for his next act all he has to do is justify it." From Simmons, that's pretty high praise!
  
  
• Shi Davidi of the Canadian Press also recaps the events, as shown in this London Free Press article.
  
  
• Besides the Canadian Press article, the Toronto Star has two pieces on the Jays. The first one by Geoff Baker is another recap of the days events.
  
  
• The Star's second article will be a lot more controversial to Bauxites. Richard Griffin states that Delgado is good as gone, and compares J.P.'s record to the last two years of Gord Ash. If you're going to comment on this article, please play nice. Thanks to Adam for the link!
  
  
• In yesterday's McMaster student newspaper "The Silhoutte", writer Greg Dunnett named J.P. Ricciardi his favourite Toronto sports figure. I wonder if Greg has ever been to the Box.
  
  

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