Ben Revere 💥 Instant Impact 💥 Ben Revere hit .319 after the trade in 2015! #BlueJaysOnSN pic.twitter.com/FIKj7jeAQb — Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 15, 2020 I know the analytics don’t look kindly on Ben Revere types. Speedy, slap-hitting, walk-allergic players have a very slim margin of error. You pretty much have to be a .300+ hitter in order to be
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One of our segments this week sparked around this tweet: What seemed like a harmless topic devolved into controversy and more Matt Stairs talk than you would probably expect. Here’s a rundown of each of our picks: Zach-Wayne Gretzky-Steve Nash-Mike Weir-Eric Gagne-Matt Stairs Before you question Zach’s Matt Stairs selection, feast your eyes on this clip: Goosebumps Matt Stairs is
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Josh Towers The running joke in my family is that I’m a huge athlete jinx. Look no further than my jersey collection to see why. Well this joke all began with my interaction with Josh Towers way back when. Back in the day, I had a grey Jays hat with the mid 2000’s “Angry Bird” logo. At one point it
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Unfortunately my recording software didn’t pick up Zach’s screen, otherwise we would’ve had an all-time video where his dad came into his room and cleaned his doorknob mid-podcast. Still waiting to get the podcast reviewed by iTunes, in the meantime check out the link below to get an update on all of the platforms currently housing the pod: https://anchor.fm/thomas-waind
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Well it’s week two (or three?) without baseball and I’m at wits end. This morning my buddy Blake sent me the following tweet: This got the blogging juices flowing. Starting today I’ll be blogging five random Blue Jays every Wednesday. To kick things off we have the pride of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Gustavo Chacin In my eyes, Chacin acts as a
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Introducing the Sunday Shoot Around with new cohosts Ben Murray and Zach Lawrence. The boys battle through bad wifi and bad Skype connections to deliver the good word on everything quarantine, Tom Brady and movies. Still working to get it up on iTunes, but in the meantime subscribe rate and review on Spotify or Anchor.
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We’re back! Cam and I have decided to boot up the old podcast in times of isolation and self-quarantining. If the world really is ending, might as well go down swinging. The plan is to go to two podcasts a week. Monday mornings we’ll have a weekend rundown type show where we loosely recap the weekend with a few buddies.
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For anybody waiting for a blog during days two through four of my self-imposed quarantine, I’m checking in to let you know that: I’m still alive. While the blog inactivity may be inexcusable, just as the CDC, this whole Carona Virus thing caught me flat-footed. But here I am, clocked back into the old blog factory ready to put in
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Lately I’ve been slacking on the blog game, so why not fire up my sports blog the day that all sports are cancelled? While I may be completely healthy, I am coming out ahead of this and putting myself into a state of quarantine. Control the message before the message controls you. Haters might point out the fact that this
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Recap of what has been reported in tonight's blockbuster: Dodgers reportedly get OF Mookie Betts, LHP David Price and cash. Red Sox reportedly get OF Alex Verdugo (from Dodgers) and RHP Brusdar Graterol (from Minnesota). Twins reportedly get RHP Kenta Maeda. Per @JeffPassan pic.twitter.com/7xUthhg4xD — MLB (@MLB) February 5, 2020 Even though a Betts trade has been rumoured for
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