Condo developers all pull these massive 1.5 or 2 storey, all glass, commercial spaces on the ground floor of their buildings, and I’m increasing seeing the tenants (where they are any) totally or partially covering the windows.

The Old Dog is back.

The bullpen lost that, but I’m gonna be real with ya…Schneider lost that game. Awful management. Truly terrible.

The only reason we don’t DFA Hoffman is because we’re so beset with injuries. He’s a warm body. But that doesn’t mean we have to give him high leverage appearances.

Oh, Jeff. Jeff Jeff Jeff.

I’ve been waiting anxiously for Trey to have a hard start. It’s been such a fairytale for him so far I was a little worried what a bad day might do to him. He never stopped working today, even though nothing seemed to go his way, and that’s a great sign. He showed tonnes of character.

Varsho was safe. He was clearly safe.

Wow, we got away with one there. Kaz had already left the bag when he made the catch. That’s the way I saw it, anyway.

The most passive voice.

Hurricanes will be consumed whole by Vegas. It won’t be pretty, but at least it’ll be brief.

A cynical person might wonder if the developer was paying a little extra to have the owner falsely assure everyone that the beloved venue was definitely coming back. I wouldn’t think that, but a cynical person (who is clearly not me) might.

All this Sneaky Dees talk has me thinking about the El Mo. Preservation is fraught and this city (and its citizenry) is often willing to settle for the lowest possible effort so long as the building/business/thing *appears* preserved, even when its essential qualities have been destroyed.

I logged on to Bluesky to finish a post I'd started earlier about the Church St. Pedestrianization project, Bradford's poison pill, and an increasingly depressing lack of municipal leadership, and then I see this entirely unnecessary bit of bureaucratic urban sabotage. How does this shit happen?

Who gets to be the one to tell Martin Regg Cohn that Doug Ford, who he recently lauded as “Captain Canada”, Is actually a stalking horse for US capital takeover of Ontario?

The councillors blaming the province every time a development gets approved (in this case Bravo) need to have some self respect. No one made you designate the Downtown growth area. Acknowledge that growth needs to happen somewhere, there are trade offs and this is what you picked. Be adults.

No one is in charge. We’re all just leaves circling the drain.

C’mon, Jays! Like…what was that??

Turns out they took some control away from Bari Weiss because she wasn't fucking things up fast enough.

Betrayed by the Province and the federal government, Toronto stands alone. The economic engine of the country treated like a plaything.

Presumably, the OQLF is all over the Bell Centre for allowing fans to shout "Shoot the puck" instead of "Lance la rondelle!"

I am irrationally pleased to learn that Morris Day and the Time have not gone over to the dark side

I join Diana and Dan in the effort to stop AI slop from poisoning our elections. Please sign.

Candidate Chow trying to short-circuit Bradford's call for platform doors in the cheapest manner possible.

Just finished The Faith of Beasts, the second book in the Captive's War series, the latest from the guys behind The Expanse. It's...slow. It's interesting, I'm with the story, and I want to know more, but it's slow.

In a fitting coda to Steven Guilbeault's career, he seems committed to taking his final potentially impactful move and utterly deflating it.

Is that 4 hit by pitch? 5?

We deserve better than Martin Regg Cohn.

TORONTO BLUESKY: I have 4 Outfield District (standing room) tickets for tonight's Jays game that I can't use, and I'd hate to see them go to waste. If you want one, DM me your email address, and I'll transfer the ticket(s). That's it. No strings. No muss, no fuss.

TORONTO BLUESKY: I have 4 Outfield District (standing room) tickets for tonight's Jays game that I can't use, and I'd hate to see them go to waste. If you want one, DM me your email address, and I'll transfer the ticket(s). That's it. No strings. No muss, no fuss.

Babe Schneider wouldn’t have cost us 3 runs, I’ll tell ya that for feee.

If it’s Chow vs Bradford, I’m obviously voting for Chow. But I don’t like it. The campaign is barely 12 hours old, so there’s room for improvement. Hope springs eternal.

I mean…c’mon!!!

If I'm reading this right, Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford are campaigning on the same things: cost of living, policing, and congestion. Chow's platform is, "I did a good job," while Bradford's position is, "No, you didn't." Inspiring stuff.

Josh gets results! www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

AH YEAH! I'm going tonight!!

The underreported story of the nascent Toronto election is the prolonged uncertainty around Olivia Chow's intention to run again. Maybe she's too busy, or she's playing "wait and see". Her polling against Bradford is OK, but it's not great, and could get dicey with a 3rd serious candidate.

I'm glad we have the Toronto Star to give voice to the... voiceless... oh, no... these are homeowners complaining about multi-unit buildings in their neighbourhoods. Giving voice to the incessantly voiced! www.thestar.com/news/asking-...

The Spacing comment boards were the urbanism wild west. Kids these days couldn't take that action.

I didn’t have Cease giving up nukes on my bingo card today. Ah, baseball.

The brief window during which Twitter was genuinely fun and not just a shared addiction happened before most of the twerps whining about echo chambers were using social media. Their version of "good Twitter" is most certainly bad Twitter.

Me whenever there’s discourse about why people are on Bluesky

Beer: default is Guinness Cocktail: Rum and Coke.

It doesn’t take much imagination to imagine how this will lead to more students not graduating, falling out of the system entirely, and facing all the social and economic perils that come with a lack of education. These Ford Conservatives can’t see past the ends of their noses.

This is the stuff of Brad Bradford's nightmares.

I'm kinda interested in the Russel Martin/Josh Donaldson podcast. I've seen some clips, and it looks like it could be fun, but Martin's mic is so overmodulated, I can't listen. And it's an SL7B, it's just set up all wrong. Someone help our guy out.

What is this Vancouver ass weather? I didn’t wait all winter for this, I’ll tell ya that for free. #dlws

Old Hoffman came back for the day!!! Nice to see ya, bud!

Oh, boy. C’mon, Jays. We’re allowed to feel good for a whole game. You can give us that once in a while.

Yariel, Yariel, Yariel. What are we gonna do with you?