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[silent Via Rail train from Windsor to Toronto]

[Three grown men suddenly kick their chairs, raise arms, point at each other and their earbuds, grinning like schoolboys]

Screenshot of Daulton Varsho hitting a grand slam for the Blue Jays in a 0-0 game that matters a lot

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 14d

Screenshot of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons in old-timey baseball gear, watching Daryl Strawberry hit a home run and bragging to Mr. Smithers, "I told him to do that".

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 14d

This is just how Ali did it. You let them beat up on you for two entire games and then, right when they're too exhausted to lift their arms, you score two runs in the 8th and pray that'll do it

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 14d

In Toronto we’re having a bullpen day right after losing the division lead. For some people it’s a workplace I guess!

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 15d

The Blue Jays’ decision to let the Yankees catch up and dangle the tiebreaker in front of them all the way to 162 is just vicious and I love it

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 15d

Tiebreakers are safe in your back pocket, but that is not what tiebreakers are made for

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 15d

Conserving runs post-clinch. Everyone else is going to run out

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 15d

Fun fact: after coming up dry for days he started actually roasting the actor in that scene.

Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 15d

We’ve collapsed the waveform. We’ve refined small ball to subatomic ball. We’re winning, it’s just that the crude instruments we have can’t detect it

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Erik Malinowski @erikmalinowski.bsky.social · 16d

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