Tao of Stieb
@taoofstieb
Occasional Blue Jays contributor, Sportsnet. Not Dave Stieb, nor a parody thereof.
The lede is really something else. The nation’s least essential sports gasbag, pumping his own tires.
Morning doomscroll reveals to me that Lauren Holly is a Jays fan. Also, now a Canadian citizen. You lose track of a celebrity crush for a few decades and crazy stuff sneaks up on you.
Nice to see a smile on Vlad’s face after he spent the whole game looking serious like Ghost Dog.
Gillis has played footsie with MAGA for years. He’s built a career out of being anti-woke while his ridicule of Trump is so gentle as to be almost loving. He literally got invited to the White House UFC event, and wants credit for not going to the VIP room. Kinda late to find his spine now.
Now that I have noticed this continuity error in the betting ad, it drives me crazier with each successive viewing.
Those are the on-field jerseys, in case that wasn’t clear. Some sort of Peter Max fever dream.
The Northwest League is delightfully weird. Six teams in the Pacific NW.
Spencer Arrighetti is a Blue Jay, and I’m going to make so many Alpha-Getti Gobbler jokes.
When the Californians assure Canadians that we’re all friends and they are on our side, won’t we please buy their wine and come back to visit.
Couldn’t get the supercomputer to enhance enough to read whose bat this is. Springer uses a Victus, but with the axe-handle knob, which this didn’t seem to have.
I remember an otherwise seemingly rational Leafs fan trying to tell me that Mats Sundin hated Daniel Alfredsson, because of that fake stick toss. And I was like: “Maybe that’s just you?”
One of my favourite funny things about Belgium was this celebrity chocolatier Dominique Persoone, whose book was in every chocolate shop I went into. I think this bad boy vibe is hilarious but I kinda love it too.
Former Jays prospect Eric Pardinho throws a weather-shortened eight-inning no-hitter for the Ottawa Titans tonight.
Do all the Astros relievers wear pantaloons? It’s like a pen full of Shawn Camps out there.