The Blue Jays Are Embarassing Josh Towers

The way the Blue Jays' season has been rolling, it seemed only a matter of time until someone cornered a reporter and let the anger flow. Last night, that person was pitcher Josh Towers.

Upset after he was removed from the game in the sixth, a game the Jays eventually dropped to the White Sox, Towers stormed out of U.S. Cellular Field -- literally -- stopping only to vent about his team's troubled season.

"We just gave the game away. Personally, that's what I think," Towers said. "Today was just a game that I felt we were in complete control of and we should've won and we didn't. All around, it just wasn't a great game played by us.

"I just don't think that we consistently put ourselves in positions to make plays ahead of time," he continued. "I don't think we were heads up. I don't think we consistently show up as a coaching staff and as a team every day, and I think it shows sometimes."

"I expect a better effort every day. We were in full control of the game, I thought, and I think that we handed it back right to them -- and to me it was embarrassing."

Jays Manager John Gibbons, not surprisingly, took exception.

"Did it look to you guys like it was a lack of effort?" Gibbons asked reporters. "You've been watching us all year. It's the same team. Does it look like a lack of effort? I didn't see that."

Towers' name has surfaced in trade rumors involving the Philadeliphia Phillies. With this outburst, the pitcher may have made the Jays less inclined to keep him around, especially if they get something more than a bag of doughnuts in exchange.