RCS: Last week, you wrote a pretty devastating indictment of Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi, listing 15 bad contracts he signed and then concluding, "In fact, really, we should just start referring to bad baseball contracts as 'Ricciardi.'"

When will Ricciardi be fired?

Posnanski: I don't know. I've obviously gotten tremendous response to that column, and many of them are defenders of J.P., which is good, because I'm glad that people are out there defending him.

I don't know the inner workings of the Blue Jays and I'm sure that there were numerous political deals that were involved in all of the sort of strange moves that Blue Jays have made. But I don't know. This is his eighth year and they've never made the playoffs, and they never really ever came all that close to making the playoffs. They've had a couple of pretty good years, and a couple of pretty bad years. So they just seem to be treading water.

From my perspective, that doesn't seem to be good enough, but I don't know. The Blue Jays have stuck with him for all this time. I know he's got a contract for at least next year. Maybe they feel like they're on the brink of something. But to me as an outsider looking in, I don't understand it. I don't understand the situation there, and I'm not privy to any information to make me feel otherwise. All the people who have even defended him have not been given anything that has been so overwhelming that has changed my view. I just don't understand that situation up there.

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