Sony worries about that huge tax write-off, I think.

Canada is something worth preserving, and I am confident a large majority of my fellow Canadians feel the same way. (A majority of my fellow Americans too, though they chose the leader that they have.)

I still call it SkyDome but Ed Rogers personally intervening to get the Vladdy extension done earned my respect. Since that moment I’m officially no longer bothered by people calling it Rogers Centre.

Regionalism returns to gaming consoles. You know who to thank.

Best thing we got from The Phantom Menace was Weird Al’s American Pie parody.

Poppies were a lot easier to deal with in the 1990s, when you’d see a nice Second World War veteran in his dress uniform selling them at Toronto subway stations. You’d walk up, say hello, drop off your donation, and he’d pin one on you. (Usually got mine at the Yonge-Bloor interchange.)

A friend wrote this quickly about the late Vice President Dick Cheney. I largely agree, and remain a fan of Cheney’s. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

So that’s textbook jury nullification. Clearly was guilty of a misdemeanour assault (the felony charge attempt was absurd), but the jury refused to convict because they don’t like the charge. Interesting Q: would he have been convicted had they just gone with the misdemeanour charge at the start?

Stuff like this is what people who want to salvage continental diplomatic relations will have to cling to until 2028. And they should be. Nobody seriously thinks a majority of Americans wish Canada ill. But lots of 🇨🇦 will accept that every so often a 45/47 gets in. thewalrus.ca/americans-st...

If you’re trying to watch a major event time-shifted, you need to turn off notifications, avoid all chat apps, and just stay offline until you’re done watching.

The only reason I’m not out on the ledge right now as a Jays fan is I was around for 1992 and 1993. I remember not-this.

This one wasn’t a curse, it just was … victory was inches away on a number of occasions, and then it was gone.

Great season, lousy ending.

It was up but then it got down just in time. Spent five minutes yelling “his foot was up, we actually won”, then saw the later replay, and IKF was legit out.

Yeah that’s where we’re at.

The Sportsnet app went down for the country, this is the workaround I think?

Three outs to go, but razor-thin margin. Let’s get some insurance.

They won a couple games the Jays probably should’ve won, it happens. A very famous World Series had the losing team outscore the winning team 55-27…

FWIW SkyDome’s 2025 ground rules are explicit, Barger’s ball was a ground rule double. (See pics in GR4.) Would a run have scored without it? Probably. Would Barger still have gotten doubled off on a misread of Giménez’s broken-bat blooper? Probably. img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/i...

The most stressful games I attended were the 2016 AL Wild Card Game and Game 7 of the 2025 ALCS. Go to Game 1 for low(er) stress. :)

Let’s go.

Trouble is, players aren’t playoff dawgs/stone cold k*llers until they are. Vladdy had a .100 career playoff batting average entering this month. Kyle Lowry had a playoff game with the Raps where he scored literally zero (0) points, without even a free throw. Which was Shanahan’s point, funnily.

Diplomacy is diplomacy.

Listening to the morning show, the hosts are talking about the secondary market for Game 6 of the World Series. Talking about the price for the “worst seat”, describes essentially the seat I had for Game 1. And yeah it’s almost exactly 3x what I paid. Potential historic moment, that’s life.

So yeah, one game away from an unexpected title. (Or two games away from the most scarring moments in Toronto sports history.)

Sometimes I’ll look at a proposal from Queen’s Park, raise my eyebrows, and remind myself that the premier is a populist. This isn’t one of them. Support all these reforms, going back to the full old system. Fixed-date election laws are an Americanism that makes politics seasonal.

FYI for BlueSky Blue Jays fans — the Jays are selling tickets for a watch party for Game 5 of the WS. It’s down to upper-level 500s now, but $15 donation to their foundation for a fun place to watch the game. (Games 3 & 4 sold out.) I assume they’re just selling the infield, not the full stadium?

Task of the day complete. (Didn’t get one last night, got one today tho I did not attend.)

In all the previous winning final rounds for Toronto teams during my lifetime (2019 Raptors, 1993 Jays, 1992 Jays), the series went to 1-1. People should calm down.

Ok I was impressed.

Statement win!

Bo is at second. Okay. This will be interesting. #WANTITALL

Game day.

Okay slightly surprised by this? Guess Gausman needed an extra day. www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

I am keeping an eye on the market for tickets, but I will not be crushed if I fail. I already ticked the item off the bucket list thanks to my late father, who took me to two WS games that I remember fondly.

So first of all, the Raps won a title, there is no “Drake curse”. But second, I’m flashing back to the embarrassment of 1992 when Toronto fans kept talking about “going to the show” instead of “getting to the Fall Classic. (“The Show” = MLB, “Fall Classic” = WS.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

Hot take time. So in terms of ranking Blue Jays home runs, I’ve got: 1. Robbie Alomar, 1992 ALCS Game 4. 2. Joe Carter, 1993 World Series Game 6. 3. George Springer, 2025 ALCS Game 7. 4. Jose Bautista, 2015 ALDS Game 5. 5. Edwin Encarnacion, 2016 AL Wild Card Game. Explanation next. 1/3

SkyDome and Scotiabank Arena have near-ideal locations for Toronto fans. You can take all types of transit there and if it’s too crowded, go hoof it to hang out somewhere and kill time.

That was intense. #WANTITALL

It is stressful

Game 5 is tense!

This is fundamentally correct. Moreover, it’s why I argue for/support a literary canon in academic stream education. (Make it more inclusive if you like, or just use the old Western canon.) Why? Because then you have a common thing to riff on / transgress against.

Best of three to go to the World Series. Mad Max is a legend!

So yeah. Maybe this?

100% this. It’s also (way beside the main point here but still) an indicator of how that administration is overly online.

Pinched from the Score’s Twitter feed re Game 4:

Sony produces some great hardware that I wish they would keep making but they then decide not to. The early Xperia Android tablets with water resistant port caps, for instance, were great. (I remember a much-anticipated Android 5.0 update for mine.)

Impressed by the precision.

Not over but that’s a very steep climb, losing the first two at home while the other team’s pitching staff is exhausted and yours is rested.

❤️