"The National League was founded a month before Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone," Steve Rushin writes. And baseball "somehow still delivers the unexpected and the unforeseeable."

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF FOOTBALL POSSUM LET HER PLAY

A note to Canadian parents: It’s Game 6 on Friday, so Halloween is over at 7:30 pm this year. If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.

you don't even go here

I like the Dodgers as a team, but I’m also loving how stunned they’ve seemed by the #BlueJays for a lot of this #WorldSeries. So many people have underestimated and dismissed this team and they are finding out now how wrong they’ve been. *chef’s kiss*

Rufus Wainwright sings O Canada in English and French at World Series — and changes lyrics to “only *us* command.” That’s some #Montréal spirit, là! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYA4...

That’s one way to start Game 5 of the World Series. Back-to-back home runs, don’t mind if we do. #WantitAll #WorldSeries #BlueJays

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

What a game. Really impressed how long the Jays held on, given it wasn’t our A lineup. Little did a fine job, but could only do so much. Happy it was Freddie Freeman with the walk off, so I can at least say a 🇨🇦 won tonight. Kudos to all my fellow East Coasters who stayed up for all 18 innings!

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.

The organist has been ON POINT all night. Nothing but respect.

update: also me

Me rn

Ernie owes Barger a Pepsi for making him run that hard.

Stay classy, L.A. Cheering Springer's injury. I know why you boo him - I get it. But cheering an injury to anyone is BS. This guy has been hit in the head, the knee, the hand, and anywhere else you can think of this year. Maybe stifle it for the few steps it takes for him to hobble off the field.

Could not stop laughing. Just picturing the pitchers showing up and seeing it…”aw, come on, man!”

It took 5 innings for the Blue Jays to score more runs against the Dodgers than the Brewers did in the entire 4 game series

Where are all those people who were saying the Dodgers would walk all over the Blue Jays?? We may not win, but we can go toe to toe with any team. This lineup is MAGIC. Underestimate them at your peril. FAFO #WorldSeries

There absolutely IS crying in baseball. Watching it sink in for him in real time, that they’d done it, was really something. Vladdy and the Jays are headed to the World Series. A beautiful moment for a truly special player.

Updated version of something I posted at the end of the last round when the Blue Jays won:

Just watching everybody jumping up and down on the TV as someone outside bangs on a garbage can screaming. Might be celebrating, might trying to scare off a raccoon. Toronto.

These beautiful lads. They’re really doing this.

The @mariners.com had a great season. If the Jays hadn’t made it this far, I would’ve been cheering them on. That was a delightfully polite series - something truly special. Well done, Seattle. You did your city proud.

DO IT, you cowards.

The real World Series

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

The Kendrick-Drake Series.

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I like both the #Phillies and the #Dodgers (probably cheering a bit more for the Dodgers, but just barely), so take this with a grain of salt. However, that overhead camera shot of the plate made it look like Pages did not touch home plate. Like at all. Shouldn't that be a thing?

My boy at Number 5!

The Blue Jays’ 23 runs are the most by a team in the first two games of a single postseason

The Blue Jays scored 20 consecutive runs between Yankees runs They’re the first team in postseason history to score 20 consecutive runs within a series h/t @EliasSports

This is so true. Playoff baseball became a real slog for a decade or so, which sapped the tension out of the games.

So much crying in baseball. 😭

Drink maple syrup

And one from my boy to sweeten the deal. SPRINGER DINGER! #BlueJays

Cinema. Pure art. Hang it in the Louvre.

11-0 in the bottom of the 4th

Vladdy sent that baseball back to hell where it belongs.

The Yankee fans are going to be complaining about so much of this game. They don’t like the noise (the irony), our HR jacket (an homage to the diversity of our players), our attitude, Vladdy, etc. Meanwhile…11-0 Blue Jays. Complain all you want. This is a whole country united behind one team 😍

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

this is basically portland's version of a haka

This gives me hope. Young people doing what needs to be done as a group. Chase him down, knock him down, then a peaceful arrest of a garbage human being. Apparently charges are pending on this Nazi, who clearly FAFO. “Post-game interview…how are we feeling?” Is top-level trolling this f*ckwit.

lmfao

Me after the @bluejays.com win today.

If you are someone who thinks it’s okay to hold a full, max volume conversation on your phone in a doctor’s waiting room. Just know the rest of the people there want to yeet you into the sun. Being here is stressful enough, without hearing the ins and outs of your dating life.

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."