There’s a lot to unpack here but Imma give it a try.

Throwback Day: it’s not just for uniforms anymore.  

I’m in BC and was looking to come down. Just about every hotel in downtown Seattle was sold out or had rooms available for $500 per night. Even as late as yesterday, I was still trying to find an affordable way to get there for today’s game.

Also note the crowd reaction for this game played a couple thousand miles from Toronto. Half of British Columbia seems to have attended this series.

Don’t even have to watch it to know the punchline. That line has stuck with me since it first aired.

I like this one better than mine.

“It’s a lot like Jack Nicholson in Batman, right? Grab a gun and shoot a couple of rich people if you want a better life. That’s just the way I feel.”

There is no blueprint for the media to cover this. This can’t be covered as a choice between two philosophies, each with its own merits.

It’s been around awhile, apparently.

I think it’s fair to question the author’s math skills when, in the same article, he says that gas prices in Tennessee have risen by “0.12 cents” in the past week.

Blue Jay fans call this the “Whitt”.

And, if I recall correctly, the families had actually been offered compensation by Cinemark that one plaintiff backed out of at the last minute, leading to the $700K award.

There’s only one way to find out.

I found my straw sometime during the past offseason.

It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

The mayor of DuPont, Washington agrees that the gesture was meaningless:

I’ve often wondered the same thing. Similarly, in situations where the D is giving up the middle of the field for a completion, could you throw down the middle and then have the receiver immediately toss it (even overhand) laterally out of bounds?

Don’t forget this one!

You can always root for Team North America.