I wanted to click "Thums" Up but perhaps I can lower my "Tums" intake with Cito back in the saddle because the Jays just might become watchable again like back in those salad days of the early 90s.

I  don't mind this move, since its just until the season ends.  If it were for the longer term, I'd be worried that baseball has passed Cito by, since he's been out of the game so long.  Since I don't believe Gibbons was better than manager XYZ, we now have Cito -- who is at least as good. 

What is going to be good, is that there will be no Ted Lilly-esque punch-ups with manager and Cito is a good, strong, man with lots of integrity - he won't be JP's patsy.  Cito stood up to David Wells, etc....  he might be good at identifying the problems. 

I guess thumb sideways. I don't think that it's a bad move and I think that this team will be better under Cito. I just don't think this team is good enough to compete for a playoff spot in the next 5yrs.

Would "Thumbs Sideways" be the choice for hitching a ride out of town?

I just don't think this team is good enough to compete for a playoff spot in the next 5yrs.

What a curious comment.  Do you not expect this team to change over the next five years?  No retirements or FA attrition?  No youngsters coming in - Cecil, Snider, Arencibia, Ahrens, Tolisano, Sierra, Jackson, Cooper (all these players will be 23-27 years old in five years).   Why would you assume this is the team for the next five years?  Am I missing something?

In the play (and movie) "Glengarry Glen Ross" ace salesman Ricky Roma asks for a lead.  His office manager hands him a card with a client's name on it.  Roma goes off on his office manager, deriding the client as being from his "nostalgia file."  Cito is from this very same nostalgia file.  Old Jays fans will see Cito, happily free-associate with better days for a while, but as the past two games have shown, this isn't about managerial change, this is a deeper problem, that stems from the top.  This is the team that J.P. assembled, the long term contracts will be the ones J.P. gave out, and the continued distance from the playoff years a function of J.P.'s seven years of unfulfilled promises.

This is a thumbs sideways for me. At worst, the team keeps playing under/around .500 and all the old goofs who have clamoured for Cito for the past decade will eat their words. At best, they were always right and the team plays great.

Pat Gillick is leaving the Phillies after this season. Just a thought.

Pat Gillick is leaving the Phillies after this season. Just a thought

I'm sure Godfrey would be game.  Problem is that Stand Pat is probably too smart to jump into this bed.

Pat Gillick is leaving the Phillies after this season. Just a thought.

I'm pretty certain if Gillick goes anywhere, it's to the Mariners.  My recollection is that he's planning on moving to Seattle to retire after this year is over.