I’m no geographer or mathematician but by all objective measures Mariners > Jays.

Even playing by your own rules:



(Similar to my Geno Smith fandom I have ALWAYS been a HUGE Mariners fan btw.)

Is this about sports

Because that greater than sign is really toeing the line on the ban on math in the Red Room

I love that they're using Salem fucking Oregon to flex on Toronto
They could have used Eugene

So is this saying Toronto is like faux Canadia, or that Seattle is faux america?

--> Green Room?

By all objective measures, Red Room > Green Room.

Given that if you combine the biggest fairweather fans of the Jays with the biggest fairweather fans the Mariners, I propose we name this wildcard game the Vancouver Bowl

Which Vancouver?

The one in Sri Lanka

So…

Was I wrong?

My longtime fandom of the Jays is a matter of record, but I have no opinion or interest regarding geographical trivia.

What about speed?


Castillo and Munoz threw a combined 71 fastballs.

- 10 were 100+ mph
- 29 were 99+ mph
- 96.2 was the SLOWEST*

* Castillo's 101st pitch

https://twitter.com/heygoldy/status/1578528981347094528?s=46&t=er_rpQZKFS1O8ZbK96_glQ

Certainly Seattle's pitchers, on the whole, throw harder - but if you consider just the guys on the playoff rosters, the results for each staff are VERY similar, and the Jays lag mainly because they brought Kikuchi along.

OTOH, the Mariners have a below average overall offense and the Jays are first or second in the AL almost every category and second in runs scored. And that's with VGJ being just very good and not insanely good as he was in 2021.

Manoah had one bad inning (literally the first time he'd given up a first inning run in almost 2 months) and Castillo didn't. All respect, but objectively throwing harder hasn't produced a better outcome over the course of the season.

Mariners? Plural?

Didn't know Beckett has a choking fetish

The Mariners become the 3rd team ever to come back from a 7-run deficit in a postseason game, joining;

- 2008 ALCS Game 5: Red Sox trail Rays 7-0 before coming back to win 8-7

- 1929 World Series Game 4: Philadelphia Athletics trail Cubs 8-0 before coming back to win 10-8

https://twitter.com/espnstatsinfo/status/1578903700638081025?s=46&t=U8poSjvbnXa6k0q0vBeDxA

The Jays have not lost a game in which they scored 9 runs in their last 54 such games.

I was okay with yesterday, because it had an obvious explanation - no one was gonna hit Castillo that day. Today was just some weird baseball gods shit - maybe compensation for 2001?

There's no objective talent/results (previous results) based reason to think this game wouldn't work out FINE, as it basically always does when you have a seven run lead in the sixth - it just didn't. We (Jays fans) can quibble about turning Santana around, or pulling Gausman, or not bringing Yimi out for the 8th But on talent it should have worked. It just didn't.

Not unlike that weird ass game a couple of weeks back when KC was behind Seattle 11-2 in the sixth and still won 13-12.
Baseball is weird.

The parallels here to the Leafs are are giving me such a sports boner right now

It’s just so great when Toronto fights all year just to get tossed out like hot garbage in the first round

To be fair, Vancouver needs to step up its game and get into the MLB and/or NFL (really though, 'NFL' with Canadian teams seems... inaccurate).
Also, 'Vancouver Canadians'?
I'd have more respect for 'Vancouver Salmon'

It's been my experience that if she's into horror and serial killer bios, she will almost guaranteed ask you to choke her at some point.

to be fair, Canadian NHL teams in general have had an abysmal championship record for the past 30 years with a single cup win by MTL in '93 and a combined six losses since.

why are canucks letting yankees show them up in what is the definition of a canuckistani sport

because if you're a young male free agent millionaire, where do you want to live

curiously, such people tend to sign with the likes of New York or Florida instead of *checks notes* Calgary or Edmonton

We aren’t really - those teams that are winning championships are chock full of Canadians

Lot of Canadian teams getting out of the first round though

but hey, montreal!

Friendly reminder: There’s no such thing as a Seahawk. Also, go Braves!