I assume all old Canadians are Gordie Howe.

“Hey, Mike—is that stick composite?”

“Uh, yeah, my name is...Billy. Uh, Billy......Football.”

Unless you’re a buxom blond or a stripper wearing a viagra bikini, I wouldn’t worry about Jerry coming at all.

Roasting is less than ideal. Braising is the preferred method of cooking tough gristled cuts of meat from old animals.

“There aren’t that many teams near the top of the draft order with an obvious hole at quarterback (the Cowboys, 49ers, and Rams immediately come to mind as good landing spots)...”

“Simmons with a flashy finish, still only counts for two”- he is not the announcer Simmons deserves, nor the one we need.

Agree. Mine is the 22nd and I love it when it falls on Thanksgiving and I get the whole meal for my birthday too.

That pass is even more incredible from this angle:

More nitpicking:

Agreed. David Price is not worth the GDP of a small island nation. They should just look to repeat their formula from last year - stay competitive with offense by using that money to re-sign their big bats and pick up a good pitcher at the deadline when you have the components to make a run.

The author completely fails to mention the USD/CAD exchange as well. This has to totally factor into the Jays’ roster decisions. At the current exchange rate, that $217mil USD turns to $290+mill CAD.

Well said. Rogers could absolutely BURY the Yankees and Dodgers and Red Sox COMBINED, but they’re risk-adverse Canadians. Whereas Americans concern themselves with ‘how much can I make’ and ‘what’s the best possible outcome’ and proceed accordingly, Canadians (and I’m one of them) typically just fret and worry and…

The difference between the Yankees and Dodgers markets and the Jays market, and why the 36 million figure is a bit misleading, is that the Jays really only have a national audience when they’re good. Baseball’s just not particularly ingrained into the culture in a lot of the country.

Blue Jays could be bigger than the Yankees and Dodgers with the richest owner in baseball and a national broadcaster that reaches a market of 36 million people. The fact that other clubs choose to spend and compete for World Series titles while the Jays mostly stand still explains why the playoff drought went past two…

What a shock: the Greek guy was planning to recklessly spend money.

Sure, they should have tried. Should they have tried hard enough to beat a $217 million offer from another team? No.

The house arrest that he is currently under seems reasonable. At least we know he’s securely confined to his home with the mandated ankle monitors.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say a defending champion with the majority of its roster back intact isn’t “too good to be true”. It’s “ball don’t lie”.

With the untimely passing of Jan Erik Eckland, I sadly have to agree. He inspired courtroom artists all over the world. Just retire the profession, you’ll never do better than Eckland.