Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Some of the ideas that Major League Baseball’s Pace of Game Committee has come up with aren’t bad at all. Limiting the time between pitches, when a batter can step out of the box and the number of times catchers can hike over and helpfully tell the pitcher to throw a strike will all do …
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Who knows how much of a thing this will actually become given the tendency of the CRTC to basically let big media do whatever the hell it wants, but I feel like I should probably say my piece just in case. WWE Network Fighting to Stay on TV in Canada – According to the Wrestling …
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On the Blue Jays radio broadcast today, Jerry told the story of what I think may be the first instance of people naming their kid after a place or thing without it sounding completely absurd. As he tells it, a couple of Baltimore Orioles fans were having a baby. As it happens, their last name …
This goes out to not only the usual doom and gloom people, but also to some current players, from the sounds of it. In a sense, I get it. There were some pretty big moves made yesterday and in a season where it feels like the Jays could seriously be considered a contender, maybe it …
Note from Steve: This is Matt’s post, and it’ll say so at the bottom just as soon as I remember how to edit post authors. I have to admit I enjoyed Steve’s Miley Post – or as we in Canada call her – Kilometery Cyrus. (booooo!) What is it about Ms Montana that makes her …
I saw this over on Toronto Mike and wondered why I didn’t remember it. But as I listened, it didn’t take long to figure out why. If I’d even heard it before today, wouldn’t I want to forget it? It’s pretty terrible. The Ballad of Jesse and George The description on this wonders whether the …
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Every year, one of my uncles organizes a family playoff pool. We each throw in a couple bucks and then try to predict the series winners from beginning to Cup winner before the first round starts. It’s a fun little challenge, and the $40ish you get if you win is a decent excuse to buy …
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When you’ve got some time, have a read of this article by former boxing manager Charles Farrell. It’s called Why I Fixed Fights, and as you’d guess from a title like that, it deals in some pretty nice detail with the whys and hows of match rigging. Boxing managers have an obligation to minimize the …
Not sure where this ranks on the best pranks ever list, but it’s pretty damn good. Jeff Francoeur’s El Paso Chihuahuas teammates managed to convince him for weeks that one of the team’s pitchers, Jorge Reyes, was deaf. They managed to get everyone to go along with it to such a degree that they even …
How did they get in my brain? Blue Jays Dreams of 2014