World Series Game 7, November 1, 2025 - Dodgers @ Blue Jays, 8PM

[LBJKB24MJ23]

Just like I predicted, we would lose. There is no way you choke to an inferior team. I'm very sad and my heart goes out to everyone whose heartbroken. But again, we were too arrogant so that's why God made us lose. Bo Bichette has so much aura though

wtf did i just read.

[JCP11]

I feel like not enough people are pointing out we had a runner on 2nd with no one out in the 8th and opted not to bunt with our 9 hitter in a one run game. If we score that run we win the game, the one lead made me nervous and I didn't see enough urgency to get the insurance run.

That was on Gimenez. A tough lefty on lefty match-up against Snell, but he did square up early to try and bunt all three times in the at-bat.

First pitch, he tried to bunt but pulled the bat back cause the ball was low (1-0). Second pitch, he tried to bunt to 3rd base, but the ball bounced foul (1-1). Third pitch, he squared early again for the third time in a row, but pulled the bat back to try and ambush the ball once he saw it was gonna be a strike, but with Muncy playing shallow expecting a bunt, he was able to catch the line drive aimed right at him. If he doesn't catch that, it's a RBI for Gimenez and it's still 0 outs.

Gimenez made good contact, just got unlucky I won't fault him for that.

[JCP11]

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The more i think about it the more i don't understand why the coaches asked him to not get a greater distance from the bag. Do you want to win or not? It was a total overreaction from what happened the day before.

[bluerap23]

Bo has to play 2nd base lol but depending on the money difference id go for Kyle Tucker

This is the time to splash the money around and go after the big fish. It's your best chance to get them when they have evidence that you were right there.

Giving forward / next year, for sure the FO will start Gimenez at one of the two middle infield positions. If they are smart about resource allocation, they would start Clement at the other middle infield position. And also take a chance on Barger at 3B, with Vlad occasionally backup 3B. Then sign some depth at middle infield. It makes little sense to give Bo 30M to play 2B and put Clement at 3B or make him middle infield backup

Right - so you want to replace Bo's bat with "depth". That is brilliant.

[PushDaRock]

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The more i think about it the more i don't understand why the coaches asked him to not get a greater distance from the bag. Do you want to win or not? It was a total overreaction from what happened the day before.

Quick look at Varsho's spray chart and it makes even less sense. The guy does not hit lasers that get caught by infielders and rarely goes the other way making it just extremely unlikely to get doubled off with any half decent read off the bat.

[PushDaRock]

That Rojas HR was so improbable like this guy has 57 HRs in 4800 PAs in his career lmao like Hoffman threw a cookie but youd hardly expect him to clip you with a fastball down the middle.

It was a hanging slider which is one of the worst things he could have done there after previous pitch. Should have went fastball.

You can criticize the pitch selection. Just keep pumping fastballs was I think the obvious thing to do there because you can't throw your wipe out slider and risk walking him. Bat was sped up with previous pitches to hit that hanger but I'm still not going to get upset about him throwing a strike there. He just isn't going to be the player that makes you pay for that often. Unfortunately he did this time.

[DelAbbot]

This is the time to splash the money around and go after the big fish. It's your best chance to get them when they have evidence that you were right there.

Giving forward / next year, for sure the FO will start Gimenez at one of the two middle infield positions. If they are smart about resource allocation, they would start Clement at the other middle infield position. And also take a chance on Barger at 3B, with Vlad occasionally backup 3B. Then sign some depth at middle infield. It makes little sense to give Bo 30M to play 2B and put Clement at 3B or make him middle infield backup

Right - so you want to replace Bo's bat with "depth". That is brilliant.

Throw the money Bo wants at Kyle Tucker or at SP

[Public_Enemy101]

Any Japanese superstars we can get next year!!!

[polo007]

theineman13 • 6h

This sucks. This stings. This is heartbreaking.

We wanted this so bad for our team, our families and the city of Toronto. But, as I reflect on the season, I can’t help but feel overwhelmingly PROUD. This was by far the most fun year of baseball I have ever been a part of. The way this team battled through seemingly EVERYTHING thrown our way. Somebody gets hurt, someone else steps in and doesn’t miss a beat. One guy doesn’t get a job done, the next guy picks him up. We give up a run, we come right back and score. This was a TEAM. Every guy pulling their weight and then some.

I can go on and on until I’m blue in the face with the number of selfless players that cared more about the team than they did their bodies. From George, Bo, Ernie and Vlad, to Hoff, Gaus, Bassitt and Biebs. The list goes on and on

I am beyond blessed to call myself a 2025 American League Champion Blue Jay. Thank you to the best teammates I could ever ask for. What a ride. And thank you to the best fans in the game. We have set the standard. And you better believe we will be back sooner rather than later. Until 2026 ✌️

[dagger]

I’m just going to leave this piece by political columnist Daniel Drezner here for perspective- both teams gave the world something special.

https://open.substack.com/pub/danieldrezner/p/thank-you-baseball?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

[linery88]

Blake Snell called our hits in game 5 lucky lol.He said he learned a lot after we roasted his nuts here.He didnt learn ****.We own him now.Used to like him,but i guess it cant be easy trying to admit you now suck when it comes to facing the Blue Jays when you used to be better against them with TB.We are rent free in his head.Hope we play LA here,and he has to pitch.

[johanliebert]

Vladdy going on tv saying daaaaa Yankees lose. Just don't do that show some class. humble in victory, gracious in defeat

Go over to the yankees board with that.

[linery88]

They can get decent hitters,and turn them into GOATS thanks to Popkins,and our small ball put in play philosophy.Thing is ,are they smart enough to do it,or will they keep going after big huge names with huge contracts.Guys who dont strike out or who dont swing at bugs with guys on would make us drive the A.L. East pitchers nuts.How forward is Fried looking to pitch to us or Jake Smell.Pitching is another story.We signed a Korean for a million.Would expect Shatkins to keep looking at Japan,and Korea,but they should also look at the Dominican Republic for both hitters,and pitchers.Cost would not be an issue.Giminez became a bigtime threat thanks to Popkins.So can others.

[JN]

Just like I predicted, we would lose. There is no way you choke to an inferior team. I'm very sad and my heart goes out to everyone whose heartbroken. But again, we were too arrogant so that's why God made us lose. Bo Bichette has so much aura though

wtf did i just read.

This guy has made some borderline bat **** crazy posts the last few weeks.

[JN]

They can get decent hitters,and turn them into GOATS thanks to Popkins,and our small ball put in play philosophy.Thing is ,are they smart enough to do it,or will they keep going after big huge names with huge contracts.Guys who dont strike out or who dont swing at bugs with guys on would make us drive the A.L. East pitchers nuts.How forward is Fried looking to pitch to us or Jake Smell.Pitching is another story.We signed a Korean for a million.Would expect Shatkins to keep looking at Japan,and Korea,but they should also look at the Dominican Republic for both hitters,and pitchers.Cost would not be an issue.Giminez became a bigtime threat thanks to Popkins.So can others.

We have a put the ball in play strategy (or at least focus on those types of hitters in terms of acquisition), but I'm not necessarily sure its a small ball strategy. Those two don't necessarily go in line with each other.

And even in terms of ball in play, I'm not sure if its implicit, or really just the hitting coach doing a great job of allowing a hitter to do what they do best within a general team philosphical context. Look how well it worked with George Springer, who actually swung more aggressively this year.

Anyway I'm not sure if any of the above makes sense. But what does make sense is that our most valuable acquisition and most valuable coach this year was no doubt Popkins.

[JN]

I went back and watched parts of the game last night. The ninth inning was crazy in particular to the bottom of the night. I thought back to five moments during the n ninth inning when I initially an initially anticipated this could be the moment we won the World Series.

Number one was the fly ball that Vlad hit on the 3-0 count. it felt pretty nice at the moment of contact

Number two was the moment Dalton put the ball into play and then when you notice Rojas do some sort of double pump motion to get his body back in position to make the throw

Number three was when ihey first showed us the replay of Will Smith not touching home and that initial realization that we might win this by video replay

Number four maybe number five and maybe number six all in one play was first when the ball left Clements bat then see Kiki Hernandez really struggling with his route to get back to the ball and then seeing Pages come into the screen out of nowhere and thinking these two guys are going to collide with each other

I had been pretty calm watching the entire game, but after that innning I had to go outside to get some cold air because I could physically feel my blood pressure rising.

[linery88]

They can get decent hitters,and turn them into GOATS thanks to Popkins,and our small ball put in play philosophy.Thing is ,are they smart enough to do it,or will they keep going after big huge names with huge contracts.Guys who dont strike out or who dont swing at bugs with guys on would make us drive the A.L. East pitchers nuts.How forward is Fried looking to pitch to us or Jake Smell.Pitching is another story.We signed a Korean for a million.Would expect Shatkins to keep looking at Japan,and Korea,but they should also look at the Dominican Republic for both hitters,and pitchers.Cost would not be an issue.Giminez became a bigtime threat thanks to Popkins.So can others.

We have a put the ball in play strategy (or at least focus on those types of hitters in terms of acquisition), but I'm not necessarily sure its a small ball strategy. Those two don't necessarily go in line with each other.

And even in terms of ball in play, I'm not sure if its implicit, or really just the hitting coach doing a great job of allowing a hitter to do what they do best within a general team philosphical context. Look how well it worked with George Springer, who actually swung more aggressively this year.


Anyway I'm not sure if any of the above makes sense. But what does make sense is that our most valuable acquisition and most valuable coach this year was no doubt Popkins.

I dont mean it implicitly,but that doesn,t matter much even if it is.We know what it means to us.Those terms are what all the broadcasters both here,and in the u.s. have been calling it all year,over,and over,so i just borrowed that.The small ball works perfectly for a put ball in play team like ours because we dont K,and it leads to more grinding of pitchers,and extended innings lol.We also dont chase bad pitches most of the time.Its up to Popkins to find these guys he thinks he can work with.Giminez now looks way more dangerous than he did with guys on then when we got him.
Popkins needs to work with Varsho in this area more.Saw him(Popkins) in an interview during this run with Brian Kenny who was peppering him with questions about his hitting philosophy,and teaching methods.Kenny was grinding on him,and Yander Alonso had to rescue Popkins by saying "He cant give away all their secrets" Kenny responded by saying "So close"lol.Then the interview on MLB Now ended.Thanks to Alonso.
We established a great foundation this season,and they better **** grow it or they are an unserious org.Thing is it doesnt have to be expensive if you know the players you are looking for,and feel strongly that you can work with them in being a part of this philosophy.You can look at how much Lukes,Barger ,and other guys made this year,and on the cheap.To me,this is a better way to go than shelling out a ton for high profile stars,but they may also be looking at how much money those high priced start can make for the franchise aka Ohtani for LA.

[Mad Prophet]

Any Japanese superstars we can get next year!!!

Any the Dodgers don't want.

[Raps in 4]

They can get decent hitters,and turn them into GOATS thanks to Popkins,and our small ball put in play philosophy.Thing is ,are they smart enough to do it,or will they keep going after big huge names with huge contracts.Guys who dont strike out or who dont swing at bugs with guys on would make us drive the A.L. East pitchers nuts.How forward is Fried looking to pitch to us or Jake Smell.Pitching is another story.We signed a Korean for a million.Would expect Shatkins to keep looking at Japan,and Korea,but they should also look at the Dominican Republic for both hitters,and pitchers.Cost would not be an issue.Giminez became a bigtime threat thanks to Popkins.So can others.

We need hitters with actual talent. Expecting scrubs like Clement and Lukes to repeat their performances from these playoffs/this season and not going out to sign real MLB hitters would be malpractice.

Order of business this off-season needs to be:

1. Re-sign Bo or sign a replacement (like Kyle Tucker). I'd go after one more above-average bat as well to hedge against a Springer decline (in general, we have too many defense-first players).
2. Sign 2 front-end starters. We only have 3 starters going into next season right now, a rookie, a 35 year-old, and a #4-5 starter.
3. Acquire a closer (ideally via trade).

We need to be in $300-350M payroll territory next season if we want to stay relevant.

[WuTang_CMB]

I went back and watched parts of the game last night. The ninth inning was crazy in particular to the bottom of the night. I thought back to five moments during the n ninth inning when I initially an initially anticipated this could be the moment we won the World Series.

Number one was the fly ball that Vlad hit on the 3-0 count. it felt pretty nice at the moment of contact

Number two was the moment Dalton put the ball into play and then when you notice Rojas do some sort of double pump motion to get his body back in position to make the throw

Number three was when ihey first showed us the replay of Will Smith not touching home and that initial realization that we might win this by video replay

Number four maybe number five and maybe number six all in one play was first when the ball left Clements bat then see Kiki Hernandez really struggling with his route to get back to the ball and then seeing Pages come into the screen out of nowhere and thinking these two guys are going to collide with each other

I had been pretty calm watching the entire game, but after that innning I had to go outside to get some cold air because I could physically feel my blood pressure rising.

I watched all these plays live. demoralizing isn't even the word. I almost died and I already suffer from bad anxiety. not to mention i had these bozo father and son dodger fans behind me