Enjoy this. We won’t be seeing it in Toronto until the Indians come to town to beat the hell out of us. I don’t want to sit here and take a dump all over a still fairly new front office’s process and vision until I see what happens on the field this year (the first …
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Rogers Centre Fan Assist: This Fan Thanks You For Your Assistance.
A few weeks ago, Steve and I went to another Blue Jays game, one of the last games of the season. That was a fun game to watch. But the reason I’m writing about it is because we learned about a service offered by the Rogers Centre that’s pretty cool, and I wish it was …
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This Is What A Wildcard Walk-Off Sounds Like
This is fun…unless you’re an Orioles fan, I suspect. It’s the sound of Edwin Encarnacion’s walk-off home run at the end of last week’s Wildcard game as heard live at the Dome, on ESPN’s Spanish feed, TBS, WJZ Baltimore, RDS (the French equivalent of TSN) and The Fan 590 Toronto. Based on this, I think …
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We’re About To Live In A World Where Vin Scully Isn’t Calling Baseball Games And I’m Not Sure I’m Ready For It
Growing up, I knew of Vin Scully, but I didn’t really know of Vin Scully. I would here his voice sometimes doing the calls on history videos and I was pretty sure he was the guy from Los Angeles, but that was about it. I live nowhere close to California so picking him up on …
Everyone Enjoy Their Long Weekend Baseball. Not You, Jays Fans. We Hate You, Remember?
So hey, MLB released the 2017 schedule yesterday. Maybe that’ll be a nice break from thinking about 2016, specifically September, a month that has seen the Blue Jays go from leading the American League East to third place in it in the span of 15 days. That’s bad, in case you were wondering. Not so …
Happy 32nd Birthday, TSN! Here’s What Its First Few Minutes Looked Like
Here’s a neat piece of history. These are the first seven minutes of TSN, which went on the air on September 1st, 1984. I know the sports broadcasting universe has dramatically changed and expanded since, but I still can’t imagine life without TSN today.
My God, These Olympics
Before a lot of Olympics start, it’s pretty much inevitable that you’ll hear stories about all the problems plaguing the host city. Construction projects running behind, rights violations in the name of corporate sponsorship, mistreatment of workers and citizens, multi-million dollar budget shortfalls that seem to take everyone involved by surprise…all kinds of fun stuff. …
Caldwell Is Throwing Some Real Heat Tonight
Sometimes it can be difficult to decide whether the old days were the best or the worst. We have all kinds of safety standards and modern conveniences that make life simpler, safer and in a lot of ways much much better than it surely used to be, but on the other hand we don’t get …
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Nelly Furtado’s O Canada Was Not The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Heard, And I Can Prove It
People have been shitting all over it, but to my ears there’s not a thing wrong with the version of O Canada that Nelly Furtado sang at the NBA All-Star game. Is it a bit different? Sure. But it’s not *that* different, and it’s certainly nowhere near as horrifying as people on Twitter made it …
It Was Fun While It Lasted. See You Next Year, Blue Jays
They kept things interesting until the very last second, but it’s all over. The Jays dropped game 6 to the Royals last night, finishing off a pretty fucking fantastic year. When the season started, I had pretty well zero expectations for this team. Neither did you, liar yelling at me through your screen right now. …
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