Apr 30th 2008 6:35PM by Josh Alper
The problem with Roy Halladay losing a one-run complete game in Boston last night isn’t just that the offense failed to score runs for him, it’s that those kinds of losses just keep on happening. The Jays have lost 11 of their last 15 games and aren’t scoring nearly enough runs, 12th in the AL, to make it clear that there’s an end in sight for their slide.

That usually means that the seat under the manager, John Gibbons in this case, is getting mighty toasty. He’s not immune to thoughts about his own mortality and neither, it seems, is his 96-year old grandmother. Gibbons visited her on Monday’s off-day for a little encouragement but got something else.
“She’s still pretty sharp,” Gibbons said of his mother’s mom prior to yesterday’s game against the Red Sox. “She asked me ‘What’s wrong with your team’? I said that’s a good question.
“Then she said: ‘Are you going to get fired?’ That’s another good question. I didn’t expect here to hammer me. I thought she’d give me a hug or something.”

Gibbons hasn’t done a terrible job this season. He’s been better about abusing his pitchers, has tried to run more to spur the offense and hasn’t punched out any of his players yet. In fact, if anyone should be feeling unsure about their future, it’s J.P. Ricciardi, the general manager.Continue Reading