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It really is disheartening to see how many people, whether it's politicians or HNIC employees or whoever, respond to this issue with "Nuh uh, Don Cherry, we love the troops times a billion" as opposed to, you know, questioning what right a moron like Cherry gets to dictate what constitutes being...

They may have thought that but if it wasn't done by the time they could have aggressively pursued the market for the best back-up goalie in their price range I'm not really sure it matters what their intentions were.

Had to happen. Hopefully they can find a decent option. It's looking more and more though like they probably should have made a hard decision on either Kapanen or Johnsson this off-season.

Going to be real fun to see what Matthews will be able to do when he's elite.

Right. And who is it that hires the team's scouting staff? Sure. It depends on many, many coaches and scouts and analytics experts, all of whom are hired and evaluated by the front office. So, just to be clear, you don't think we should be judging the front office on their ability to draft...

Yeah, again, a "Guy like Tepera" meaning what? A relief pitcher with a career ERA of 3.64? As we saw with Hudson last year, guys like Tepera can be signed off the scrap heap literally whenever the Jays want. It's genuinely meaningless. No, I remember all of that and didn't want to rehash old...

Someone just pointed this out to me but this apology was not tweeted by Sportsnet's main account that has 700k followers but by SportsnetPR, who has just over 8,000.

Why would you have expected the Jays to get much of anything for a relief pitcher who was hurt this year and not particularly effective when he wasn't hurt? Why would that mean more to you and what the team is doing with their rebuild than the actual players on the team they're developing? At...

I agree about Odorizzi being a good signing. I just worry that he may have inflated his value a little with his very good W-L record. Puig is an interesting idea but would that mean moving Grichuk to Center permanently?

Just a thread I thought I'd post for some discussions about what we might like to see the Jays do next year. Personally, I'm pretty high on where they finished the year and think they really have an opportunity to improve the team with some smart free agent signings. They've only got 41 million...

This is about "not getting anything" for a reliever who had an era of just under 5 in 20 or so innings last year? The Jays last year had three young infielders with WAR's over 2 in half a season or so but we're focusing on the handling of Ryan Tepera as being somehow a key element of the...

I'm sure that was a very meaningful and productive conversation.

I don't know how many defensemen picked outside of the top 10 make real impacts in their draft+3 year but I'm guessing it's a pretty small number.

Sooner or later, and I think it's almost certainly sooner, someone at Sportsnet is really going to have to answer whether "Do Immigrants buy enough poppies?" is the conversation they want their hockey broadcasts to start.  mod edit: https://twitter.com/SportsnetPR/status/1193983313272279040

I really would have thought that what we've seen from Marner lately would kill off the idea that being local matters in the least.

I think Anderson/Wilson types are guys you can draft/develop much easier than high end offensive skill. Trading Nylander for someone like that because we don't love how the season has started seems like an overreaction of the highest order.

He's not where the word Crap comes from though.

Like you say there's probably a touch more upside for Detroit here but it's pretty marginal either way.

If the next CBA doesn't have serious and substantial changes to the cap I may be done with this sport. The fact that this level of nonsense has become normalized as something fans should pay attention to is just absurd.

I mean, pre-cap you definitely had more situations like the Red Wings and Blues where they had absurd streaks of making the playoffs. The whole pitch of the cap is that it increased parity which pushes teams at the top down. I mean just by its nature a cap means a team eventually has to lose...