What an extraordinary game!
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Cathal Kelly / Globe and MailBlue Jays dedicate 11-4 blowout to Donald Trump 🇨🇦
— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) October 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
While Dodgers waited for luck to appear, Blue Jays made their own in World Series opener
...Though this is the first post-season Game 1 they’ve dropped in two years, the Dodgers will still think they are winning this series. They may be considering cancelling the golf round they booked in Scotland next weekend, but they will believe this has only just begun. Toronto must allow them to think that. Encourage them in it.
That work falls to the rest of the baseball – to all the American-based pundits and number crunchers who will tell you that L.A. has too much pitching to lose the World Series. One aberrant Snell start doesn’t change that.
The stats-oriented nature of baseball does not allow for the most crucial factor in any game – luck.
Throughout this run, the Jays have been so lucky they’ve made it seem like a skill. Whenever they’ve needed a hit, or a big out, or a burst to demoralize the opponent, they’ve gotten it. Even their losses have been well placed. At no point have they actually felt like losing. Not because they were in control, but because they were lucky.
On Friday, Toronto’s luck ran out. You could feel that in the early going, and so could the crowd. It happened around the time Ernie Clement tried to turn a bad L.A. throw to first from one extra base into two and got caught at third.
Against New York or Seattle, that works. But not early on Friday.
Clement couldn’t believe it. After being tagged out, he looked up at the third-base coach and said, ‘Yeah?’ like he was talking to the arbitrating authority.
Right then, Toronto had passed its luck to the other side. Then L.A. passed it back.
If someone had told you before the game that Ohtani was going to crush a seventh-inning home run and that it wouldn’t matter, what would you say? You’d say, ‘Lucky.’
The Jays’ first Mission Impossible was beating the Dodgers in the opener. It was a non-negotiable necessity. Toronto can now afford to lose Game 2, but I wouldn’t advise it.
The Dodgers are also creatures of luck. Why else do you think they stuck with Snell when his own mother would have pulled him? It was 2-2 at the time and still too early for the Dodger luck to have appeared. Why not tempt it into arriving? Show Toronto that fate has a new boyfriend, and he lives in Hermosa Beach.
That didn’t work, and the Blue Jays killed them for it. We’ll try it again on Saturday night.
The opening was great - that chorus was terrific, and the flags too:
Pharrell and Voices of Fire with incredible national anthem performances ahead of #WorldSeries Game 1 🇺🇸🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/jGeA3mEZhk
— MLB (@MLB) October 25, 2025
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On a side note, this was funny:
Oh, and this happened too:Doug Ford (Ontario Premier) and Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) with some very friendly respectful competition for the World Series. GO JAYS ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This ad paid for by Canadians played during the World Series on FOX. If that isn’t chef’s kiss after an 11-4 trouncing of the vaunted Los Angeles Dodgers I don’t know what is. Thank you Blue Jays. Thank you Ontario. Thank you Canada. 🇨🇦👨🍳💋 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Wab Kinew is onside:
But this is also true:Perfect response from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew
— Geneva 🇨🇦 (@geneva1111.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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It was the truth. But premiers need to shut up and coordinate with the feds, because this isn’t a game
— Bruce Arthur (@brucearthur.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The last time a World Series home run was hit in this building, the catcher behind the plate was Darren Daulton, who two years later was teammates with Gary Varsho, who the next year had a son he named Daulton Varsho, who just homered in the World Series in this building.
— Anthony Castrovince (@castrovince) October 25, 2025
3 comments:
I don't think pursuing a 'deal' with tRump is worth it. He'll quickly renege if his mood swings as we've seen so often including this latest hissy fit.
Ironic that these ads had to be paid for by Canadian (Ontarian) taxpayers. Running clips of past GOP saints trashing the actions of the current regime is low hanging fruit. These ads should have been running everyday in 2025 paid for by Americans (especially the milquetoast Democrats).
tRump went ballistic exactly because he saw something that broke through the 'fill the zone with shit' tactic.
Perhaps Ford make a poor judgement call to run these on his own. But cancelling them now makes things worse. It will just leave the willfully-ignorant US viewers with clips of tRump calling them false.
Will any US group step up and run the same Reagan clips in their own ads after our money proved their worth?
"Perhaps Ford make a poor judgement call to run these on his own."
Unless the cleared it with Carney, not impossible, it was absolute stupidity.
He is a provincial premier with the sophisticated knowledge and understanding of international affairs and the current state of Canada and US negotiations about is about equal to my cat's.
His intervention may have helped or it may have damaged Federal negotiations not only with the USA but with other potential allies against the Trump imperialism. Who knows?
Apparently there was an imminent deal on aluminium etc that was trashed but who knows what Trump will ever do. After some CEOs call him maybe he'll change what is laughingly called his mind.
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