of Blue Jays and Twinkies

First, I'll start with some bad economic news from the Americans. As some of you might know, Hostess is going out of business. Due to this, some of their most treasured sweets will become obsolete such as the twinkie. As with all closures, blame is being spread around like wildfire: management blames the unions for being uncooperative while the unions are blaming management for lack of innovation and attention to employees. Here's a video about it:

 

 

 

Finally, for some good news. It involves the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club pulling off a MAJOR 12-player trade with the Miami Marlins. To the Jays go: Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio. Miami gets Yunel Escobar, Adeiny Hechavarria, Henderson Alvarez, Jeff Mathis, Jake Marisnick, Justin Nicolino and Anthony DeSclafani. In other words, we gave Miami some young prospects for some star power (Reyes, Johnson, and Buehrle). For immediate competitiveness it's a great deal for Toronto. This may very well position us to contend with the Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and other teams. For the future, it's not so clear what the impact will be. Also too, we signed Melky Cabrera before the big deal: another good dose of talent. Lastly, a surprise manager signing took place with John Gibbons returning to the team. Here's to hoping he'll get the new talent playing well with each other. Here are the stories:

HUGE mega-deal

Gibby Returns

Signing the controversial Melkster

Wow, what a week this has been! Catch you later.