25-year-old rabbi: "I can manage the Toronto Blue Jays"

USA Today - "Why not give the job to a 25-year-old rabbi?

So says Zev Icyk, a student at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J.

Icyk, a native of Thornhill, just north of Toronto, wrote a letter requesting an audience with Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. His reasoning? Can't do much worse than those who preceded him.

Writes Icyk in the e-mail: "I have drive, motivation, experience and personality to take the Jays where Alex Anthopoulos wants them to go.

"The Jays would be the most aggressive and exciting team in the bigs. I am the only rabbi in the world with the ability to manage in the majors."

Icyk is not without baseball chops. Elliott reports that Icyk, then known as Warren Icyk, threw a no-hitter in 2009 for Muscatine Community College in Iowa and later played for Division III D'Youville College in Buffalo."


Listen chief, I don't care how many community college teams you've pitched for or how many middle school "Most Improved Player" awards you won, managing the Blue Rays is out of your league.  Literally, out of your league.  Here's a thought, if you're so talented, how about you get a few men's beer league softball jobs under your belt and then try your hand at a minor league gig, maybe a nice single A team.  Not to burst you bubble I totally respect the hustle, but you don't see me lobbying to be Jay-Z's new your manager.  Would I want to be?  You bet your ass.  Do I have any right?  Nope, non at all.  If I was Alex Anthopoulous I would give this guy a shot at an interview, just to brutally shut his ass down and show him that normal people go to school for stuff like that, I believe it's called a degree.  You don't just become a rabbi one day and then expect to wake up with million dollar job offer from the Blue Jays on your night stand.  This is America bro, get with the program.  The verdict?  Zev Icyk is your team 11 times out of 10.

PS - Saying "I am the only rabbi in the world with the ability to manage in the majors" gives me absolutely no confidence in your capabilities to manage a team.