Some very useful corrections to the NY Times piece today on progress since Paris. We're actually doing much better than indicated by the emissions graph the Times used

Ahead of COP30, I looked at the legacy of the Paris Agreement for this weekend's @theglobeandmail.com. Surprise! I found that the energy transition I've spent 20 years tracking is going to be the best mechanism to pursue Paris targets in the decade ahead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Possibly the greatest press conference in American political history

A decade after Paris, the clean economy is winning - terrific summary from @theturner.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9858ffb...

Here is yet another thing actually happening in the fight against climate change. Someone please notify Gary Mason @theglobeandmail.com before he opines again

This is what’s actually happening on one very active front in the fight against climate change

This is an over-torqued headline over garbage analysis that would have you believe Bill Gates and a couple of Canada’s federal climate policies were the entire “fight”

Hey look! It’s that power too cheap to meter we’ve been hearing about since the early days of nukes!

This is some smart analysis (and eases the sting in convincing ways if you're a Jays fan). And as ever with @davidjroth.bsky.social, I'm in awe of the craft -- e.g. this line (about the Brewers): "Whatever ineffable thing had been at work there was, by the series' end, pretty convincingly effed"

As part of the healing process, us Jays fans are going to have to face the unvarnished truth about the nature of the beast that defeated us, however terrifying that might be

If you were raised on 80s sitcoms, this is like some freakish junk-culture Rosetta Stone. There was, for example, a Ferris Bueller TV adaptation, and it starred Jennifer Aniston

I'm surely not over the Jays' loss, but I agree with this pair of sentiments. Particularly how a baseball season like this one with such a bitter end can grow sweeter with time. Like how many viewers of Good Will Hunting realize Matt Damon and Robin Williams are recapping a series the Red Sox lost?

I get that some heartbroken Jays fans what there to be ONE REASON to explain the loss, one mistake to blame it all on. But what happened was baseball being baseball to an exceptionally great degree, a dozen or a hundred tiny fractions of a second or an inch determining success or failure

Fans of The Bear are less likely to forget this (good thread here on why playoff series aren't decided on any one play)

Agreed. The Jays found ways to outplay the Dodgers in every other aspect of the game, but they couldn’t figure out Yamamoto. (Vladdy did mash the stuffing out of that pitch in the 11th though…)

I have been known to point out how arbitrary and cruel the baseball gods can be — but Miguel Rojas? Come on, that’s a bit much

Heh

1000% this. The 2025 Jays played with guts and skill the entire season, came into the postseason the consensus favourites to get eliminated immediately, and fought the juggernaut that had been the betting favourite to win it all to a bloody battered draw. Keep your misery in its lane, Leaf fans

I believe this to be true, except for one damn pitcher who apparently does not tire out

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💯 — absolute delight of a season. Baseball ends badly most of the time. The best people to ever play failed at their primary task more often than not, every single day. It’s a beautiful, maddening game and this year’s Jays played it with as much joy as I’ve ever seen

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Every sport has its postseason strengths. Nothing but baseball builds narrative tension like this right here

I have t-shirts older than him. Though that might be true about lots of guys on the field right now

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Radio play-by-play guy was grousing about this, but I'm all for it. Can't have your teammates throwing hands and you're all I dunno bro that's a lot of walking.

To be clear, there was no brawl

Full credit to the staffer who got the tags off those caps before the third inning

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So you like meaningful fall baseball games eh? Well how about the most meaningful…?

Like, holding hands, or?

This is the correct read, fellow Jays fans. The way the ball got lodged was a freaky never-happened-before-at-the-Dome thing. The ruling was routine and correct

Such are the vagaries of the baseball gods

For anyone new to the Jays bandwagon, a sort of style note on tonight: losing on a weird double play that sends you to Game 7 of the World Series is roughly 5,000X less devastating than crapping out of a wildcard series in 2 games. Repeatedly. Game 7 of the World Series still feels like this 👇

He’s right you know

Anyway folks welcome to postseason baseball, strap in for a winner-take-all Game 7

I’ve watched thousands of games at the Dome and never seen a ball get trapped under the wall on the fly like that

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If you’re a Jays fan of a certain age — for example the age where you saw the last Jays WS Game 6 at a bar in your second year of undergrad — this has, you know, taken awhile

I went to Game 2 of the ALCS with my son and even though it didn’t go well after the 3rd inning it was still incredible

People are saying

Let’s remember some guys!

This is the best big-picture analysis I've seen of what makes the 2025 Jays work in ways that previous teams of similar or even greater talent simply haven't

Very much enjoying all the efforts by the baseball press to wrap their minds around the night Trey Yesavage had last night

Hard to argue. It’s one of the greatest pitching performances by a Jay in the postseason period, never mind the rookie thing