@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com congrats on no Conforto

“a few small beers” is gonna stick with me right up there with “the eatery?” as far as line deliveries go

Jays Talk Plus! We're still rolling 10am-12pm through the playoffs (and bye week), plus weekend pregame shows. Tom Henke gets us started today for a loaded week of WC preview / ALDS setup. No Raptors media day for me but Bonner/Amit have you covered.

John Schneider is a maniac. In a sea of Budweiser, he's slamming IPAs.

John Schneider yells "BRING IT" as Vlad et al hit him with a couple water cooler baths. Awesome scene at Rogers Centre with 42,083 sticking around to celebrate.

The Toronto Blue Jays have won the AL East, the bye, and the #1 seed in the AL

George Springer pushing the OPS to .959. 32 homers. 166 wRC+. At age 35-36. One of a handful of the most remarkable Blue Jays seasons in memory.

Let Ernie Clement spend 5 days in the hyperbaric chamber

FLU GAME

Slump breaker, confirmed

What a time for a Vlad piece

*Rays starting 7 lefties despite Gausman having small reverse splits 2024-25 thanks to splitter *No Yandy or B-Lowe, and no Chandler vs Jays worst run-game control pitcher *Rays one of the worst offenses in baseball vs righty splitters Win a division

The American League East will come down to Game 162. Blue Jays and Yankees both at 93-68, both at home Sunday. Kevin Gausman vs. Ian Seymour Luis Gil vs. Kyle Bradish

Just shy of the longest homer of Alejandro Kirk's career. Big insurance run, and potentially a slump-breaker.

Trey Yesavage's first time going past 89 pitches as a pro. He throws 94 to give the Jays 5 shutout innings in a huge game.

Lukes with such a great throw I forgot Barger was at third and not in right

We all gotta find our motivation where we can but Cora and the Sox playing the "nobody believed in us!" card is almost Warriors-level untrue

Springer is finally caught stealing, and he is now 17/18 on the year and 33/35 over the past two seasons

"Cowboy" by Kid Rock as Trey Yesavage's warmup for his home debut. NOT the Jeff Jarrett "Chosen One" version

I have 2 tickets to Pool Kids in Toronto on Sunday that I can’t use. Free to a good home.

If Hoffman gets this save, ump gets a hold

We are all Fluharty Boyz

What a couple of games for Nathan Lukes

The Raptors have signed Jared Rhoden. Former 2-way player dealt with injury issues last year and was let go ahead of a recovery summer, he’ll know be back in the camp/905 mix. Great to see.

The Braves have claimed Alek Manoah

TNF bringing it with the Hey Jealousy to-commercial music

VARSHO

No disrespect to Dan but "this game has everything you want" is not true. I would want a Jays run.

Lukes and the bullpen came to play. Need a bat now.

Jays didn't have a starter, said when in doubt, bark it out.

Jose Berrios lost his streak of consecutive starts and will now lose his IL-free streak. Tough couple of months for him. Still a role to play as vet/leader around the team, but he cares a lot about posting, surely a hard time.

Louis Varland starts tomorrow for Jays

New wrinkle to a loss every day

With this new configuration, Scherzer would line up as the Game 1 Wild Card starter, unless they change plans or pitch someone on short rest

Jays tweaking rotation for the rest of the week Thursday - TBD. Could involve Berrios. Depends a bit on how tonight goes. Friday - Bieber, in part to get him an extra day given workload post-TJ Saturday - Yesavage Sunday - Gausman, if game matters

Surely it gets better tomorrow vs Crochet

Santander back, France to IL with oblique, Manoah DFA to make room

Next up: Robot pro wrestling referees so we can finally curb outside interference

The Raptors have signed Tyson Degenhart. An Exhibit 10 that was reported back around Summer League and now made official for camp.

BJ Ryan on the show tomorrow. How long do you think I can talk with him about Slipknot before my mic gets shut off

Clinch show tomorrow. And how about those Ms.

PAC in clothes is unsettling

The one true sport

Daulton Varsho's outfield slides are as smooth as Trea Turner's baserunning slides

Surely one of the more frustrating innings a pitcher can have

Incredibly unfair of MLB that the Yankees are the only team with a 162-game schedule

Can't believe @mikepetriello.bsky.social didn't include Cam Eden in that hit

No interfering with that one

Well well how the turntables

Here's the fan interference rule language, FWIW