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December 14, 1981 (1/2) - 🚨 Philadelphia attempts to trade *SIX* of their players to the #BlueJays for Dave Stieb. (I.e.b., you know you've made it when.) 💪🏼 Why? How? Read on... 🧵 🚨

December 13, 1992 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb is one of the greatest competitors this game has had." - fellow 1992 #BlueJays World Series Champion, Candy Maldonado. The new member of the #Cubs speaks about the new member of the #WhiteSox in glowing terms. Read on... 🧵 🚨

December 11, 1981 - 🚨 Dave Stieb and his agent are looking for more than an arbitration biut with the #BlueJays. And why not? He just had the 1st winning season by a pitcher (and a 10th place MVP vote). But it won't go well and be another thorn in the relationship. 🚨

December 7, 1981 - 🙏🏼 Even GOD HIMSELF wanted Dave Stieb in trade! 🙏🏼 As the 2025 #MLB Winter Meetings kick off tonight, let's look back at the umpteenth time a rival team tried to pry Stieb away from the #BlueJays. Read on...🧵

December 7, 2025 (1/2) - Just a friendly reminder of what's at stake - in our familiar chart form - at 7:30 p.m. EST, as the @baseballhall.org's Era Committee announces its 2026 vote results. No matter what, there'll be tears 'n' jeers. That's how it works. TABLE: eligible pitchers

December 5, 1991 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb could be back on the pitching mound in 3 months." Dr. Arthur White trims the ruptured disk in Stieb’s back, from that freak collision on May 22. Optimism abounds. Read on... 🧵 🚨

December 3, 1983 (1/3) - 🚨 Victory! The first of the two agents suing Dave Stieb (🤯?) in the winter of 1983 gets their lawsuit dismissed. And it's former #BlueJays teammate turned agent, Dave Lemanczyk. WTF? Read on... 🧵 🚨

December 2, 2003 (1/3) - 🚨 The 2025 Eras Committee ignoring of Dave Stieb for the @baseballhall.org of Fame is as bitter a taste as when he hit the writers ballot in '03 (thanks to '98 comeback), only to not make the 5% cut to stay a 2nd year. Jon Bois explains the details in the video below... 🧵 🚨

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays winner is...Lou Whitaker! Lou's time vs. Stieb was not very sweet. Lou had 87 PAs against Stieb and of all the players with 60 or more PAs, Whitaker finished with the 2nd worst OPS. Let's dive into more... 🧵 ⚾️

⚾️ NEW Stieb INTERVIEW!!! - Betway Insider talks to Dave Stieb about radar guns now vs the 1980s, sticky substances, and his love of new analytics. Read the article here ✅️ blog.betway.com/mlb/dave-sti... ⚾️

November 29, 1988 (1/2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb and Fred McGriff win #BlueJays Pitcher and Player Of The Year; a celebration of Stieb's return to domination. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 27, 1990 (1/3) - 🚨 These happy fellows finish 1-2 in the voting for #BlueJays Pitcher Of The Year. It's Dave Stieb 5th win with David Wells finishing a distant second. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 25, 1981 (1/2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb is the first Blue Jay to get a MVP vote (10th place) finishing in a 27th-place tie with George Brett for 1981 AL MVP. Stieb’s 4.4 WAR (a prorated 6.7) ranks 3rd for AL pitchers in ‘81 and ties for 9th among all players. Read on... 🧵 🚨

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays winner this week is...Eddie Murray! Stieb and Murray faced each other 67 times...the first being Stieb's first start on June 29, 1979; the 7th batter Stieb ever faced in the #MLB. Let's dive into more... 🧵 ⚾️

⚾️ Yes, #BlueJays fans, making the World Series will cause an even steeper rise in ticket prices and concessions...oh wait. This one is from 1983, their 1st winning season. But the Stieb Easter Egg is in the Notes section: Stieb is getting sued by TWO agents. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 20, 1990 - 🚨 Dave Stieb finishes with his 2nd highest MVP voting of his career. This time, he gets one 10th place vote to earn him 25th place. (1984 was his highest with 22nd place; 1981 saw him finish 27th place.) 🚨

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays! ⚾️ A feature where *you* can submit your requests for how Dave Stieb performed head-to-head vs the best (or just your personal fav)! Let's look at one of Stieb's biggest nemesis, *Wade Boggs*! Read on... 🧵

November 16, 1985 (1/2) - 🚨 A great thought piece (from the Great One's home, Brantford, Ontario) by Ted Beare on the different sides of Dave Stieb at his peak, at a peak moment (so far) of despair, after the #BlueJays lost in Game 7 to the Royals in the ALCS. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 15, 1989 (1/3) - Bret Saberhagen romps to the 1989 Cy Young Award…and he absolutely deserves it. But one pitcher - the difference-maker in the AL East division race - is totally absent from the BBWAA ballot. Guess who, Dave Stieb fans? #BlueJays #CyYoungAward

November 13, 1990 (1/2) - Five years after last appearing on a Cy Young Award ballot, the #BlueJays' Dave Stieb finishes in a fifth-place tie for 1990's top honour, with two third-place votes from 28 BBWAA scribes. It's the mainstream's belated acknowledgement of his return to form in 1988.

November 8, 2023 (redux) (1/3) - Still got Halls of Fame on the brain (I wonder why). Here's the San Jose Sports Hall Of Fame 2023 class (Lorrie Fair, Patrick Marleau, Dave Stieb, Chris Wondolowski) with their official plaques, permanently displayed on the concourse at the SAP Center.

November 8, 2023 [continued] - In summer 2023, we were asked to contribute to Dave Stieb's San Jose Sports Hall of Fame induction video, which played just before his acceptance speech. It's a great clip. Here's our trailer-length edit:📽️ In the "tweet" BELOW, a link to the FULL clip.

November 8, 2023 (1/3) -🚨A picture's worth a thousand-and-thirty-seven words! A #BlueJays legend becomes part of his hometown’s sporting firmament: Dave Stieb is inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.⚾️ #SanJoseSportsAuthority

November 7, 2025 (1/2) - Buck Martinez Appreciation Post October 14, 1976: In the biggest game of his career, Buck goes 3-for-4 in G5 of the ALCS (aka the "Chambliss game"). He's also confounded everyone with the pronunciation of his surname. We've all been saying it wrong?🤯

November 7, 2025 (1/2) - Buck Martinez Appreciation Post October 14, 1976: In the biggest game of his career, Buck goes 3-for-4 in G5 of the ALCS (aka the "Chambliss game"). He's also confounded everyone with the pronunciation of his surname. We've all been saying it wrong?🤯

November 7, 1948 -🚨 Future Dave Stieb teammate and #BlueJays icon Buck Martinez is born in Redding, CA.🎂 Playing for Milwaukee, he singled in Stieb’s first home start and win, July 9, 1979. Buck caught Stieb 88 times, to a 3.05 ERA (Stieb's career ERA was 3.44).

November 4, 1982 [P2] - The 1982 Cy Young voting debacle - nicely summed up by Jon Bois' Captain Ahab doc in this clip📽️ - creates a butterfly effect felt even in 2025: Dave Stieb's easier to overlook by Era Committee Hall Of Fame panels without that hardware, isn't he. 1/3

November 4, 1982 [P1] - Oh, goody! Time for this old favourite again. The 1982 AL Cy Young Award vote's in. Milwaukee's Pete Vuckovich wins. The #BlueJays' Dave Stieb's fourth. Look at Pete's K:BB ratio! 1/2

November 3, 2025 (1/3):🚨The @baseballhall.org has released its 2026 Contemporary Era Hall of Fame ballot. Dave Stieb has been overlooked. Carlos Delgado IS on the ballot. Congratulations, #25! Best of luck next month. Following: two charts showing the eight candidates vis-à-vis their peers.

November 3, 2025 (1/3):🚨The @baseballhall.org has released its 2026 Contemporary Era Hall of Fame ballot. Dave Stieb has been overlooked. Carlos Delgado IS on the ballot. Congratulations, #25! Best of luck next month. Following: two charts showing the eight candidates vis-à-vis their peers.

November 3, 2025: The @baseballhall.org's released its 2026 Contempoary Era Hall of Fame ballot. There's a legendary #BlueJays player included, but it's not Dave Stieb. Six hitters, two pitchers - the split we hoped and expected. Results announced December 7. More to come.

November 2, 1982 (1/3) - 🚨The votes are in! Dave Stieb wins The Sporting News' 1982 A.L. Pitcher of the Year award, a huge hit of mainstream recognition for the rapidly improving #BlueJays. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 2, 2025 - The 2025 Blue Jays - a likeable, great team - lost a marvellous World Series last night. The one of us here who's less partisan, perhaps a bit angrier about the org's legacy-ignorant shenanigans, began wondering whether there was a curse. Maybe it's real. #CurseOf37

November 1, 2025 (1/2) - Tone deaf move by the Blue Jays to give Jack Morris the first pitch tonight (alongside Paul Molitor, mind). Never mind the career-long feud with Dave Stieb. Never mind the fact Stieb didn't throw a pitch this month. Jack Morris is just a disappointing human.

October 30, 1984 (1/3) - Cy Young votes are in! Dave Stieb's modern-day case: 7.9 bWAR (1st; Blyleven 7.2) 5.6 WAA (1st; Blyleven 5.1) 48.45 RE24 (1st; Hernandez 38.28) 146 ERA+ (1st; Blyleven 144) 267 IP (1st; Hough 266) 2.83 ERA (2nd; Boddicker 2.79) He finishes... seventh. With one vote.

October 28, 1985 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb, you're going to Disneyland!" (Okay, they probably all went after winning the World Series in 1992, but here he is after the ALCS defeat, winding down with his family...) 🚨

October 26, 1992 [P2]: Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth emcee the rally inside SkyDome, with 40-odd #BlueJays briefly taking the mic. Most keep it pretty basic. Dave Stieb’s bottled a lot of thoughts in 14 years with Toronto. He’s not an over-sharer. 🚨Today, though, he lets it all out.📽️

October 26, 1992 [P1]: The championship parade! The icing on every pro athlete's bucket list cake. The #BlueJays ride from the Royal York to SkyDome via Wellington and Peter. Dave Stieb rides with the Grubers. 🚨VIDEO!📽️ That's BOTH OF US hustling across the screen @ 0:24.

October 25, 1998 (1/3) - 🚨 #Stieb2000! Dave Stieb, age 41, lets it be known through his agent that his aim is to be a four-decade player. How did it start and how did it end? Read on... 🧵 🚨

October 24, 1992 [Last-night-in-Dave-Stieb-history print edition] (1/3) - The game ended late at 12:51 a.m. EST. Newspaper print rooms would run hot through the wee hours. Throughout Canada, people spilled onto streets. In Atlanta's visitors' clubhouse, the #BlueJays rejoiced.

October 24, 1992 (P3) - 🚨 "Congratulations, Dave Stieb. You're a World Series champion!" 🚨 Timlin to Carter, to Stieb (injured for the playoffs) running out onto the field in those flat-soled running shoes. What could do wrong... (next tweet, please...)

October 24, 1992 (P2) - 🚨 "I sensed the end was near here. I gotta be the first one out there." - Dave Stieb, as the #BlueJays win their first World Series, taking down Atlanta in 6 games. Watch and read on... 🧵 🚨

October 24, 1992 (P1) - 🚨 Dave Stieb and the #BlueJays win their 1st World Series, Timlin-to-Carter style! Watch Part 1 below (with the man in the white running shoes leading the charge onto the field)... 📽 🚨

October 24, 2025 (1/2) - Timing: it's everything. There're only two pitchers in #BlueJays history to make the jump from the June amateur draft to their MLB careers the very next season. One is Dave Stieb. The other starts Game One of the 2025 World Series tonight.

October 23, 1992 (1/2) - It's the off-day between games five and six of the 1992 #WorldSeries. As the caravan returns to Atlanta, national media - including columnists George Vecsey and Tom Verducci - tell a large U.S. readership exactly where Dave Stieb fits into the narrative.

October 22, 1985 (P2) - 🚨 The only winning manager, Bobby Cox, in #BlueJays history takes a walk...back home to Atlanta. Here's the new home town coverage of the shocking (to Stieb and team) news... 🧵 🚨

October 22, 1985 (P1) - 🚨 #BlueJays Nation is rocked by the news that manager Bobby Cox is leaving the organization after leading them to their 1st division title. This is on top of the heartbreak 5 days earlier of losing ALCS Game 7 to the Royals. Read on... 🧵 🚨

October 22, 1985 (1/2) - In preparing one of the pieces on Dave Stieb's midwestern college roots to appear sporadically throughout the '80s, the Evansville (IN) Courier must've anticipated a different 1985 ALCS outcome: this would've run during the Blue Jays' World Series debut.

October 21, 1992 - "I've been part of it for a long time. When we do win I will get a ring, and that will signify a lot more than just 1992." An injured Dave Stieb can only watch Toronto's first #WorldSeries from the dugout bench. U.S. papers interview the "living symbol of [Blue Jays] history."