Pete Evans

What would a perfect Maple Leafs trade deadline look like? There is an opportunity to put the Maple Leafs in a more advantageous position next season. It might take a perfect deadline.

Speaking of the Leafs, this excellent piece by Kloke in the Athletic is exactly what they should do. But I’m also confident they are absolutely not going to do that

www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Trust the process. Just because the Shanaplan failed doesn’t mean the Pelley-an is doomed

In short, we cheer for a well run organization that is not at all cursed or dysfunctional

This chart in the Financial Times sums up the AI hype perfectly

Basically either AI is going to solve all human problems OR it is going to kill us OR it will boost global GDP by 0.2%. Those are the three options :)

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The pro leagues outside of MLB are clearly getting better and better

It’s hard for me to tell how big the gap is. “Korean league MVP” still feels like “AHL all star”

Also im genuinely fascinated by what exactly Cody Ponce is. What does the a Cy Young of the Korean League mean in the MLB? Excited to find out

Sidebar: me rosterbating about the Blue Jays in February is a sure sign that I have in fact given up on caring about the Leafs any more this year.

Something like that yes. I’m just saying if you were penciling in a starter who could conceivably give you 6 good innings against a good opponent in a playoff game, it wouldn’t be crazy to think he could

Offensively you have downgraded from Bo to Okamoto and I’m not confident that all those Cinderella stories are for real as there was some magic secret sauce in that 2025 run.

But overall damn that’s a good looking roster

Injuries and bad luck will happen but with Sherzer back in the mix holy hell
The jays have pitching depth

1 and 1a in Cease and Gausman. yesavage has 1 potential. Ponce and Berrios wild cards. Then Bieber and Scherzer as aging savvy vets. That’s 7 guys I can theoretically see winning a playoff game

House hunter’s dilemma: Buy, or wait to see if prices fall some more The national sales-to-new listings ratio for January is pointing to a sharp drop in house prices this year

As someone who has been through this process a lot, the vibe and comments from all the realtors in this just gets my hackles up.

There’s a lot of $100k commission cheques happening because…. Reasons?

www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

I guess I can’t figure out why it has to be now? Don’t teams normally do these things during offseasons for this exact reason?

Is there precedent?

Sens fans by a mile. That marriage was on the rocks pre Olympics.

Leafs and Matthews are in the “cordial and staying together until the kids go off to college” stage

I am completely indifferent to it.

If he was amazing or terrible I would have been mad but he was just basically mid so like… I don’t care? He was not injected with the clutch gene or anything

So good luck trying to do it again with Max Domi on your wing

He scored 45 as a 20 year old on the Owen sound attack! He’s good for 25 as a nhl rookie

sudden death | noun | extra play to break a tie in a sports contest in which the first to score or gain the lead wins

Then talking ourselves into whoever that second rounder turns into

Fair enough. I have been borrowing it then

This is my hot take get your own!

We are the better team.

Make the score reflect that after the final period.

It’s ok I’m sure Canadians won’t be complaining about that missed too many men call for the next decade

I suppose I don’t
Mind it versus having the same ad fed to me 10000 times but it is wild to me that this is the gold
Medal final and this is the streaming commercial break. Missed opportunity for some $ cbc!

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I wasn’t ready for the world where Canada are the cheating bad guys in curling but now that it is here I am leaning into it

Source: realclearpolling, via Tony Keller’s excellent Globe column today

American politics in a nutshell

We don’t like Trump, we like the Republicans even less, and yet also we dislike the Democrats even more.

Midterms are going to be a trip, ma

Swipe right if you’re interested in meeting my husband, who likely will be widowed by spring Six-foot-6-inches tall. Age 76. Looks like Superman. The extraordinary man I married 38 years ago

Tho is both lovely and awful at the same time

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...

So I married an axe murderer

This is a somewhat difficult negotiating position to counter

Can someone explain to me why the Raptors just traded for Chris Paul in 2026?

Please note: I do not watch basketball

I returned to Facebook recently after a multi year hiatus, mostly to sell some stuff on Marketplace

While I have a couple hundred bucks more now because of it. I can assure you that place is even worse than you remember it being

Quite a nip in the air