Owen Cassie aka Le Grand Orange V2.0
Rusty Staub in a Montreal Expos uniform, circa 1970.
Separated at birth? Owen Cassie, Le Grand Orange V2.0. #WBC #WorldBaseballClassic #Canada #Cubs
There is no better through line conceived and put into writing than this to explain our current shitshow of existence.
Yep, although finishing first in Pool A would let us play the second-place team in Pool B. Dare to dream of a Canada-USA QF?
My MVP for Canada: Noah Skirrow. Those three scoreless innings of relief were huge! #WBC www.baseball-reference.com/register/pla...
That was a statement game for Team Canada. Puerto Rico beat Colombia by 5, Canada beats them by 6. Canada has a shot to win Pool A, not just advance by finishing second. #wbc
Yes. Yes it will. 😉
Owen Caissie, the pride of Burlington, Ontario with a 2-run home run at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to give Canada 🇨🇦 an early 2-0 lead over Colombia 🇨🇴 at the World Baseball Classic!
Le Grand Orange V2.0
Is it too early to start calling Owen Cassie "Le Grand Orange V2.0?" #Canada #WorldBaseballClassic
Owen Cassie batting 8th for Canada? That's a strong offensive lineup. #WBC #WorldBaseballClassic
This is leadership. Whatever Carney is doing it sure isn't this.
“Trump is not in control of the Iran War. Netanyahu is, and Kushner is his lackey.”
Whether or not you fully agree with that statement, this piece is a must-read to understand better the influence of the Kahanist movement on current events and the push for “Greater Israel”:
"The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party."
news.sky.com/story/greens...
There are 92 million Iranians in Iran.
Wastewater virus signals for Toronto, for the 52 week period ending Friday March 6 2026 showing a drastic spike in COVID-19. RSV, Flu A and Flu B are also shown. The second highest spike was Flu A which peaked mid-December and was present for about 8 weeks, while COVID-19 has been at elevated and mostly growing levels since last spring.
"There's something going around"
Yeah. It's COVID.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Classic JBL advertisement. Also get the same effect from Sarah Kendzior's writing .
History, deep dive, Sarah brings you the story and the receipts. Worth the long read to gain information and form your own perspective on events facing our world.
Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
Here's a SABR Games Project article I wrote three years ago about the first major-league homer hit by a player born in what is now Czechia. Frank Rooney (Rovný) turned the trick in a Federal League game in 1914. #WBC #WorldBaseballClassic
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Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.
Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.
Why bomb a school?
Could've been aiming at something else and missed. But it looks like this missile hit the intended target. Except the target selection—perhaps by an AI system called Maven that uses Claude—was based on outdated information.
Target suggestions are one thing. But no human review?
Wow, impressive win for Australia over Taiwan in the WBC. The plot thickens in Pool C.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Stay safe. They are a couple of pieces of sh**.
You were not wrong. Carney is the master of doublespeak.
