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The bullpen was in tougher in the last game against Texas! Osuna was done, all the rest of the decent pitchers were done. I don't know who was up in the bullpen for The Jays, but I would take Tepara out of that Trilogy of Misery. Texas had yet to use their closer..... Luckily, Texas(Odor ironically) imploded at the wrong time for the second year in a row. Last year, it was the entire infield that collapsed with multiple errors prior to the batflip homer in 2015. This year, a routine play flubbed and the game was over. The Jays can really use the rest before the next series, it gives them time to line up their real strength, the starters. Carrera has been a great late season performer, he adds a sorely lacking element or two to the team. Speed, bunter, base stealer, decent hitter, decent fielder..... I'd love to see him at leadoff in the next series, then Travis, Donaldson,Encarnacion, Tulo, Martin, Bautista, Saunders, Pillar in that order. Bautista and Saunders can platoon in RF/DH. The Jays are peaking at the right time......

BC deserves the NDP. They loathe prosperity there.

I wish we could have a poll function here. Natural US election poll question, CDN version: Who is worse? A. Trump B. Harper C. Satan D. All of the above.

I was in a town this summer in Northern Canada when Internet service went down 3 days in a row, off and on for a few hours each day. The bank closed immediately, and the three ATMs in town followed suit. It became impossible to buy a meal, fuel or much of anything unless you had cash and they still had change in the till. And of course there was no way at all to get cash from anywhere. It took no time at all for attitudes to get kind of ugly as commerce and communications essentially halted. It was instructional and disconcerting.

Really. Then you won't have any problem linking to the stats that demonstrate forced and forcible sex with a man that results in pregnancy.

Perhaps the OP could explain his premise more fully? Coercion and sexual assault are the same thing under the law, and in real life. How exactly does a woman force a man to intercourse and ejaculation? How would she get to first base by forcing him to get and maintain an erection against his will? Fear, lack of interest and too much beer are all powerful erection deterrents. Coercion and physical assault would invoke two of those three deterrents. Of course, it does not work the other way with women. Women are frequently unwilling victims of sex, their physiology being what is is.....

The first episode was a bit confusing, but a good start nonetheless. The premise was the creation of a more-than-fantasy world where wealthy humans could act out their darkest impulses of sex and violence on androids. It is the step that is well beyond Virtual Reality. Rape and murder as part of the bottom line of corporate America..... a Heart of Darkness brought to you in the closest simulation of reality possible... I wonder if the strategists, futurists and financiers at Disney and Las Vegas and Google and Apple are watching Westworld and thinking.... how far away is this, and how can we monetize the idea?

Mike Harris left office in 2002 , and Ontario had a debt of about $130 billion. Now , despite the excellent and prudent fiscal management of successive Liberal governments, it is about $300 billion and rising rapidly. Since no blame whatsoever can be attributed to McGuinty or Wynne- it can only be the fault of Mike Harris, vaunted time traveller and minion of Satan.

He will come back if they give him both term and megabucks. The Jays won't do both, and by refusing to sign him before the season both of those things went up, way up since EE has had just a great year.. Thanks Ed! Hope you enjoy life as #3 hitter in Boston. They'd better reinforce the Green Monster, he will be pounding baseballs right through it for the next 4 or 5 years.

They are both gone. And the Jays get..... absolutely nothing back.

Hey you bought just in time to pay that fat new carbon tax.

Did you see the great sign held up in the stands right after the game yesterday, while they were interviewing players live on the field?? The (Rogers Inc. operated) TV camera panned away pretty quickly.... Some guy was holding it: " Hey Rogers, I am switching to Bell unless you sign Edwin". I laughed out loud. I had stopped recording by then, wish I hadn't.

Trump may be the reincarnation of Rob Ford.

Do you mean Biagini as closer? That might work. I'd rather have him than Grilli actually. Liriano is third choice from that group as closer- and first choice for long relief.

Yes, why not, since it wins the game and is more likely to be successful for Jose than hitting his current .225 would.. Oh right, real men don't do that. I doubt real men even practice it on this team. As I said earlier, one of the finest moments this season was Brian McCann hitting a homer at his first at bat, and laying down a bunt into the shift his next. Now that is a team player! Shouldn't have to ask any player to execute a basic baseball skill, they should know how to do it from long practice, and know the game situation requires it. Same with situational hitting- the big sluggers have to shorten their swing and get the ball into play.

Absolutely classic Jays all right: the 3 run homer...... But creds to the entire team, they hung in and their pitching was great from start to finish. I hope Osuna is OK. Grilli as the closer is he isn't OK?

Gibbons was reluctant to pull anybody, any starter or veteran at any position the whole season when they floundered. How many times did we see the score get run up in the fifth inning as Gibbons wanted to leave the starter in to have a chance at a win. Answer: far too many. What sealed the deal for the Jays was themselves, going 11-16 for September.

Every insured mortgage in Canada qualified via strict CMHC rules, and the prime part of that is spending 32% of income max on mortgage. Housing for the middle class is most certainly affordable outside the twin Centres of the Canadian Universe, but all are hit hard by this new rule. The smug iteration of 'nothing to worry about ' is straight from the Handbook of Economic Jeanius subtitled as 'the budget will balance itself' . Spare me.

Yes, of course you do. And Shapiro will as soon as the season ends unless they win the World Series. You will recall your own certainty at the beginning of this year that their finish last year was just the first step to a Series win? Instead, they backed into a playoff spot on the second last day of the season. The Jays have the players, except for the crap bullpen, but they don't have the leadership from management and from some key players to win a Series. And please don't mention Gaston. He is cut from the exact same mold as Gibbons: the only way to win a game is to passively wait for a three run homer. It worked well when Gaston had the superb players for a couple of years, but 'one size does not fit all'. You have to play to the situation, and neither of these guys can or will do it. Gibbons has been forced into it kicking and screaming lately. The Jays would be in a much better position if they had won as few as 5 or 6 of the many close and extra inning games they lost because of Gibbons failing to adapt. They also lost numerous games because Gibbons is terrified of offending a veteran pitcher by yanking them when they falter, instead he waits until the game is lost.

No, the whole country does not need an intervention at all. There is no pressing need- in the tiny portion of Canada that is not the GTA or Lower Mainland- to crush the housing industry. The mortgage insurance is backed by the buyers of the houses, who pay very substantial premiums. Note that CMHC and insurred loans have not been available to houses costing over $1 million(hello Van and TO) for a couple of years. Banks and mortgage lenders are regulated by the feds, mostly via the Bank Act with dates from near Confederation. The Regulations stemming from that Act have been used and manipulated by nearly every PM and Finance Minister to diddle with CMHC and influence the housing industry.

I would start Liriano too, with Stroman in the pen. For the reasons you noted- their forms against a specific lineup. And I would put Stroman in as soon as Liriano lost control and starts walking people, which he is prone to doing. One thing Stroman has as a reliever: he throws strikes. It drives me absolutely insane when the reliever comes into a game(usually in a tight spot with baserunners) and gets behind in counts and walks batters. Its an express train ride to a loss. It is interesting to watch the major differences between how coaches like Showalter and Farrell manage their teams in tight games as compared to Gibbons. It is quite dramatic. Assuming the Jays win this game, I don't see how they get past Texas. And Gibbons is going to get fired.

Thanks man, I had no idea I was so stupid until you pointed it out.

I am enjoying Quarry on Cinemax/HBO. It is one of those period dramas where none of the characters are particularly likeable, but it is still pretty good

My solution would be the one that has been waiting to happen in Montreal for decades, since the dumping iof sewage there has a long and pungent history there of just literally dumping shit in the river. It is the same solution found elsewhere in countless cities in the developed world: design and build an effective sewage treatment regime. What has held Montreal back is that they just have never been able to get Canadian taxpayers(not Montreal or Quebec, but Canadian) to gift them enough cash to both build the systems found everywhere else, and pay off all the politicians with their hands out. Much simpler to just dump all that shit in the waters they pretend to value when convenient, and blame somebody else.

Why not Estrada? He last pitched on Saturday Wednesday is his regular day in a five man rotation, soon to be four men. I don't see Stroman as the better choice for tomorrow. Funny how it has worked out. He was The Man in May, but not now. He was supposedly our ace in April, now he is clinging to perhaps 4th in the pecking order. Sanchez was an outside shot as a starter, now he is undeniably the ace pitcher. I would start Liriano, if Estrada is not available for some reason. Most of the obstacles the Jays overcame were of their own making: bad personnel choices, poor coaching, and underperfomance by key people at key times. They would have won their division if they had not lost so many close and extra inning games.