Bryan Doyle

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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Most hits in a single postseason:

2025 Ernie Clement: 30
2020 Randy Arozarena: 29
2025 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.: 28

Bo Bichette hits a 3 run HR

TREY YESAVAGE

12 strikeouts
No walks

That’s the most strikeouts by a pitcher in a World Series game with no walks

Addison Barger!!!

The first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history

Thank God for Canadians. Canada nICE Agents.

George's full AB with in stadium audio only.

The 2025 World Series is set! Dodgers vs Blue Jays gets underway Friday night from Toronto

#WorldSeries #dodgers #BlueJays

Here are your last 40 American League pennant winners! Like, comment, share whatever you need to do to celebrate your team is on this list.

Seasons where one LCS was sweep & other went 7 games (LCS best-of-7 since ‘85):

2025
2012
2007
2006
1988

Each of the 4 prior times, the team winning the 7-game LCS won the World Series, too

“I’m glad I got to meet the whole organization”

-Trey Yesavage

Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos wrongful dismissal suit claims that she was fired for investigating conflict of interest in procurement decisions. Judge Wyant's report confirms much of her statement of claim.

Wyant identifies more reasons for a full public inquiry.

This is why we need a public inquiry (as even Wyant seems to imply).

Players with 15+ hits and 5+ home runs in their first eight games of a single postseason:

2025 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
2021 Kiké Hernández
2004 Carlos Beltrán
1995 Ken Griffey Jr.

h/t @bmags94.bsky.social

Forty years ago MLB teams opened their books to an independent economist and were proven to be lying liars who lied.

Until they open their books that way again, let that be your default assumption about any claims they — and their media water carriers — make about their finances.

UCP logo / slogan image

Canada Strong and Free Network logo

Photo of proposed new licence plate

Republican Party of Alberta banner image

For those keeping track...

"Alberta Strong and Free": United Conservative Party

"Canada Strong and Free Network": New name for what used to be known as the Manning Centre

"Strong and Free": Alberta's new licence plates

"Truly Strong and Free": Republican Party of Alberta

The UCP wants to replace "Wild Rose Country" with "Strong and Free" on provincial license plates.

The minister responsible said caucus, alone, decided on the change. And that the move was "clearly non-partisan".

Here's the official party logo.

You be the judge.

Smith Not Impressed With New Plates "Political Agenda" Written by Brent Manke Monday, Jul 14 2014, 12:00 AM The three choices for Alberta's new license plate, plus what we have now. The Opposition Wildrose party is up in arms over the removal of the "Wild Rose Country" slogan from the bottom of the plates, calling it politically motivated. Highwood MLA Danielle Smith is no fan of Alberta's proposed new license plates. She supports the new reflective paint job, but not changing the slogan at the bottom from "Wild Rose Country." She says it's more PC political nonsense. "All of a sudden this comes out in the middle of the summer, in the middle of a leadership race, taking off the Wild Rose slogan. It's clearly political. People have seen through it. They are outraged and responding in massive numbers. We have a poll going with six thousand respondents so far, most of which, about 70-percent who say keep the Wild Rose slogan." She says the province would have been better off asking us if we wanted to change the plates in the first place, as well as if we wanted to change the slogan, before moving ahead on their own.

Subscribe $1 for 6 months Breadcrumb Trail Links HomeNewsLocal NewsNationalPoliticsOpinionColumnists Bell: Danielle Smith set to roll out a new Strong and Free Alberta licence plate Alberta to get a new licence plate. It reads Strong and Free Author of the article: By Rick Bell Published Oct 14, 2025 Last updated 34 minutes ago It’s coming. A new licence plate for Alberta vehicles. Article content It is a licence plate with attitude. It is long overdue. Psst … the current licence plate was designed more than 40 years ago. Article content Article content The words on the plate have been decided. Article content Strong and Free. It is the motto of Alberta. They are words found in the national anthem. Article content A generation ago some Albertans fought for a Strong and Free licence plate, including this scribbler and legendary Edmonton Sun columnist Neil Waugh...

Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.

Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.

My suggestion for how Nenshi’s NDP should respond to the UCP license plate game. 👇

The Dodgers are the first team with back-to-back starts of 8+ innings starts since 2016 Giants
Bumgarner NLWCG
Cueto NLDS G1

First in the same series since 2010 Giants in World Series g4-5: Bumgarner & Lincecum

Adam Wainwright probably would have walked Leo Rivas to load the bases… 😉

I would pay a lot for MLB to provide broadcasts of games without announcers. Just the sounds of the game and crowd noise. #mlb #mlbplayoffs

Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it! Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.

Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Everything you need to know about Alberta's book bans 1. According to Danielle Smith it’s not a book ban, just an order banning certain books 2. The order written in July by Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides contained such explicit description of t...

Everything you need to know about Alberta’s book bans

Tim Wallach was my first favourite baseball player when I was a kid. ⚾️

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