So now the Jays have lost twice and that's just awful news.
But all over social media, I see Jays fans agreeing, if we have to lose, at least its to the Mariners, a team we respect. And vice versa:
I’m a Blue Jays fan who will IMMEDIATELY pivot to support the Mariners this year, if they advance to the World Series
— Luc (@lcfrst.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Mariner fan and I feel the same way about Blue Jays. I’ve always loved the Blue Jay fans.
— MoonChild 🌙 (@jdmoon.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The Canadians on the Mariners are wearing Canadian flags as belt buckles. And for BC, the Mariners are practically their home team anyway.
Toronto Star baseball reporter Gregor Chisholm writes (gift link):Josh Naylor is the FIRST Canadian-born @mlb.com player to homer in the Postseason as a visiting player in Canada. Naylor is 4th Canadian-born player to homer in Canada during the playoffs, joining blue Jays Russell Martin, Michael Saunders & Vladimir Guerrero 🇨🇦 📸 @mikegibbs.bsky.social #Mariners 🔱
— Corey booBrowa 🎃 👻 🐈⬛ (@coreydu.bsky.social) October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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....The decisions in Game 1 and Game 2 didn’t work out, but they were defensible.Loved this memory, too:
On Sunday, Gausman allowed the homer and walked Rodríguez on four balls that weren’t close. It made sense to be concerned about fatigue, even though he had a reasonable pitch count. Plus, the switch-hitting Polanco has been better against righties than lefties over a 12-year career, despite his reverse splits in 2025.
In Game 2, Yesavage surrendered a three-run homer to Rodríguez in the first. Two innings later he walked Rodríguez on four pitches, with the Mariners star not chasing two that barely missed the zone.
It became clear that Rodríguez was one of the few big leaguers this season who saw the ball well out of Yesavage’s hand. Equally troubling, Yesavage’s velocity started to drop. He opened the game hitting 96 m.p.h.; by the fourth it had dipped to 94.
Before Rodríguez could get another at-bat, Schneider went to the bullpen. The move looked good when Varland struck out Rodríguez on five pitches. It looked much worse after Polanco put one into the outfield seats.
....Schneider isn’t the reason the Jays are two games away from elimination. While he might have been the one pulling the strings, he wasn’t the one mislocating pitches or failing to come up with the big hit. That’s on the players who haven’t done nearly enough in this series after performing so well in the previous round.
“We have confidence,” Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. said. “We don’t like the position we’re in right now. They’ve been playing great baseball, too. The only thing we can do is just get better, go to Seattle and try to win.”
The Jays have been guilty in the past of sticking to their algorithms instead of responding to situations as they arise. Neither of the bullpen decisions this week fall into that category. Schneider reacted to what was going on in front of him and it just happened to backfire.
So, fans and members of the media can make him the scapegoat all they want. But if the 26 players in uniform don’t raise their level of play in a hurry, this Jays season is going to end with a whimper instead of a bang.
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I watched this game and it was incredible. Boston went on to win the ALCS in four straight, and to sweep the World Series too - eight games in a row. The Curse of the Bambino was finally lifted.
Speaking of curses, I'll bet Homeland Security is cursing the day they ever invaded Portland. They are looking more ridiculous all the time:
Moving on, the more I see Carney with Trump, the more I realize that Trump really likes Carney. And Carney gets along with everyone. So its an advantage for Canada:
United we ribbit, divided we croak. 🐸🐸🐸✊🐸🐸🐸
— LynnZ 🦋 (@zizij.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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“I obviously started a movement of people showing up looking ridiculous, which is the exact point. It’s to show how the narrative that is being pushed with how we are violent extremists is completely ridiculous. Nothing about this screams extremist and violent.” —Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸
— LynnZ 🦋 (@zizij.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
— amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Trump actually made a real joke, like a normal person. Carney seems to bring that out in him. During Carney's visit to Washington, Trump showed a rare moment of humanity when he called Carney a great man, and admitted that he wanted to be a great man too.
I'm getting the impression that Trump and Carney actually have a friendship - evidently they text regularly too. One think we don't realize about Trump is that he knows how to be charming when he wants to be, and Carney is no slouch in that department either. But I don't get the impression that Trump has friends. Carney's ability to get along with Trump may well turn out to be one of the most important things Carney can do for Canada.
Former MP David Graham thinks so too:
David Graham / A View From the Back Bench
David Graham / A View From the Back Bench
Canada's Dodged BulletAnd here's a good point, too:
... Carney has to walk a very fine line between screaming at the idiot sitting in the chair next to him in the now heavily gilded oval office and offering him just enough ego-boosting compliments to stay in the room long enough to have a dialog.
Poilievre needs to recognise that the baseline right now is not what it would be in normal times. Leaving the White House with Canada’s sovereignty intact is the objective, and everything else is more or less a bonus....
Carney has to balance our needs against this wild backdrop. He isn’t going to bribe Trump and he knows he cannot provoke the highly corrupt president. In the circumstances, the status quo is better than the president turning his dictatorial attention toward Canada. Indeed, it is not Carney’s role to oppose the rising American fascism. He is one of very few people who cannot, by virtue of his office, do so as doing so would directly endanger his own country. Rather, his role is to protect Canada from its effects.
Poilievre, on the other hand, largely agrees with Trump’s policies and ideas, and has been copying his style for all the years he has been Conservative leader. It would be unwise to forget his open embrace of the Ottawa convoy, premised on overthrowing the democratically elected government, which largely propelled him to the Conservative leadership in the first place.
Unfortunately for Poilievre, though, he still can’t get a briefing on what Canada’s security and intelligence establishment actually knows about Trump, their policies, objectives, alliances, and weaknesses, all critical to being involved in negotiations with any foreign power, because, unless he has done it in secret since the election, Poilievre still does not have his security clearance.
It is difficult to imagine in what way Poilievre could possibly help, as he has so generously offered to do. Bullet dodged indeed.
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My dad would have been so excited with the Jays!
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