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How watching the Orioles win the division last season inspired a Toronto Blue Jays culture change

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Interesting article:

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/mlb/why-watching-the-baltimore-orioles-win-the-division-last-season-inspired-a-toronto-blue-jays-culture-change

?We were up in a box, myself, Andrew Tinnish and Tony LaCava,? Anthopoulos said, remembering last Sept. 16 in Baltimore. ?We were sitting there and just talked about (how) we?re going to change some things up in terms of who we were going to bring in.

?Sure, you want talent, but you want to have those other components. And we stayed with it. We stayed with it all off-season. We stayed with it during the year.?

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Culture doesn't help with this.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy birthday <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandenKline16">@BrandenKline16</a></p>— Glynn Davis (@G_Willy_D23) <a href="

">September 29, 2015</a></blockquote>

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His Arm No Longer Works as of Today

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LookitsPuck Hangout Grand Counsel

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I didn't realize > $150m payroll, signing a bunch of mercenaries, trying to steal a GM (and not following protocol) right around the Winter Meetings, stealing signs from the outfield, having an organization that was open about replacing their president/GM, not winning squat for how long is actually creating a culture? Sounds like a NYY Jr...without as many juicers.

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Culture doesn't help with this.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy birthday <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandenKline16">@BrandenKline16</a></p>— Glynn Davis (@G_Willy_D23) <a href="

">September 29, 2015</a></blockquote>

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So his career is over before it even began? Sad.

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