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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 18h

The one other start on that list that was a loss — Guzman in 1993’s game 5 — is a great comp for last night: a really good pitching performance met by a truly incredible one on the other side (Schilling).

Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 1d

Heck of a pitchers’ duel for a while there, but Yamamoto is on another level right now. Jays should be worried about facing him again in game six.

Onto LA…

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 1d

Game one was exactly the way the Jays need to play to win the series.

Game two is going exactly the way the Dodgers need to prevent that from happening.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

This has been such a 2025 Blue Jays game in all the best 2025 Blue Jays ways.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Blue Jays in the 6th:

walk
single
HBP
single
walk
single
forceout
grand slam
single
flyout
home run
flyout
Alejandro Kirk and Vladdy hug

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 2d

Go Blue Jays!!

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

9 outs before the Dodgers get nine runs. Let’s settle this one, boys.

Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Stand on your CHAIRS, Jays fans

a man in a suit says " o captain my captain " in white letters

ALT: a man in a suit says " o captain my captain " in white letters

media.tenor.com

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

LARGE BARGE

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Jays really gotta get at least one run here — ideally more. Feels like the whole ball game might happen here.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

😬😬😬

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2d

Yesavage's best pitch is his splitter, but he's only thrown it 9 times, and it's looked like ... this.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Ernie, my dog… woof.

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Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 2d

Trey Yesavage, a 22-year-old whose first start of the year came against the Jupiter Hammerheads, just struck out Shohei Ohtani to open the 2025 World Series.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

That pivot from the instrumental title track to the first string flourish of “Tonight Tonight” is still just an incredible album moment.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

30 years of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness today. A little bloated? Sure. Less cool than the early records? Sure. But when I was a teenager this is the sort of ambitious excess that excited me most. Dare I say it’s almost underrated now? 👀

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Watching this, you knew a few seconds into it exactly where the cut to Vlad's ALDS grand slam was going to be... and yet it still worked like gangbasters. Keep the hype videos coming.

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

oh right, by popular demand here's the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ali2...

"Get Behind Anything" 2025 MLB World Series Hype Video Promo | Toronto Blue Jays

YouTube video by @iamwillycool

www.youtube.com

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Also: crowd singing good, but anthem singer explicitly stopping to let the crowd take over bad. You are being paid to sing. The crowd is not. Earn your keep.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a decidedly "anthems for international competition only" guy. But I like a creative execution.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the game 1 and 2 anthem singers. Curious if the implication is Pharrell is doing both for game 1, or if "local Canadian ensemble" is a bit of subterfuge.

Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2d

World Series national anthems in Toronto:

Game 1: Pharrell Williams and the Voices of Fire choir accompanied by a “local Canadian ensemble”

Game 2: Bebe Rexha and Alessia Cara

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2d

If there was course I wish existed when I was in poli sci undergrad or grad school it would be one called "It's actually stupid". One leaves school thinking the world is smart but it's wiser to operate on the assumption the actors and behavior is stupid.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech.

This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

Bo and Vladdy are gonna get to play in the World Series together. As it should be.

a baseball player wearing a blue jersey with a canadian flag on it is standing in the dugout .

ALT: a baseball player wearing a blue jersey with a canadian flag on it is standing in the dugout .

media.tenor.com

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 2d

The move to offer free ferry rides during this weekend's Halifax-Dartmouth bridge closure is welcome and long overdue to become the standard practice.

Too bad the ferry stops before midnight, though, as it renders it useless for getting me to and from my Jays-watching plans.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 3d

Billy Bragg and Wilco are going to perform Mermaid Avenue together at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival next year — which, if you know anything about how that album came together, is a rather wonderful and unexpected "bygones be bygones" moment. That'll be a treat for fans.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 3d

Originally had "No Surrender" in place of BitUSA, but a) the latter deserves to escape its complex relationship to politics and the '80s and be seen as one of his best compositions (and band performances), and b) the pivot from the "River" speech to a song about Vietnam made a lot of narrative sense

Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I'd find a bit more space for Springsteen's post-2000 work — it's a far better late-career catalog than most of his peers — but just couldn't find anything I felt was essential or rewarding enough to knock out anything that was already here.

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