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  1. Pretty much the whole team's hitting approach seems broken. Bichette himself mentioned it last month, guys can't decide what pitches they want to swing at (except maybe Davis Schneider) so they're always late on fastballs or chasing breaking pitches off the plate. It would be one thing if it was just one or two players, but almost the entire team's power numbers are down from last year (home runs, slugging percentage etc). They hit and get on base well enough, but they can't consistently drive in runs and it feels like part of the reason is because they aren't hitting for power nearly enough. The team's management and front office have talked quite a bit about laying off and hitting to the opposite field but most of their players are pull hitters. It's dumb and reductive, but I miss the days when the team encouraged players to take bigger swings and pull the ball more. At least it was more exciting when they lost.
  2. Been stewing on it for a while, but the Jays are starting to remind me of the Leafs. Stats say they're a good team and should be better than they are, but they consistently find a way to underwhelm when it really matters.
  3. Evidently Canada Basketball asked players to make a three-year committment to the national team for this Olympic qualifying cycle starting last year, so it's possible they turn down anyone who decided to skip out, which includes Wiggins. Murray was gonna play at this World Cup before dropping out due to fatigue, so I think he's safe to pencil in next year. They could grant a few players exceptions to join the roster, mind you. There are others besides Wiggins that would be useful additions (Sharpe, Mathurin, Clarke, Boucher etc.)
  4. They turned the hitting difficulty down to rookie on MLB The Show.
  5. The Canucks goal horn is three separate Khalenberg air horns that are synced together: KM-250, Airchime 3 (the pre-2008 goal horn) and S-302C (the model that the Jackets, Blues, Leafs, Flyers and Lightning also use in their horns). Picture here: https://www.thefaceoff.net/goalhorns/vancouver-canucks The combination of the three is supposedly tuned to mimic a BC Ferries air horn, but I couldn't verify that piece of information. Anyway, that's why it sounds similar to those other teams' goal horns but is slightly different. I like it enough, it's pretty low on my list of things to change about Rogers Arena.
  6. Guess the Jays have discovered that the key to hitting with RISP is to be the bat.
  7. You've pretty much described everything that's wrong with the national team development program right now. The current Canadian women's team plays incredibly uninsipred and bland football. The buildup is slow, the ball movement is incredibly predictable and the midfielders don't effectively link up with the forwards. It's almost as if they've become so used to Sinclair doing everything that they don't know what to do now that she's inevitably begun to show her age. They've relied so long on being able to bully weaker opponents with their athleticism that they never learned to adapt to the rest of the world catching up. Sacking Priestman and bringing in someone with a better mind for tactical football might provide some short-term solutions but as you mentioned, as long as grassroots coaching ignores technical development and our infrastructure lags behind in quality, there's always gonna be a ceiling to what Canada can achieve internationally. Not having a domestic women's league also really hurts in that regard.
  8. FVV got that huge contract partly so the Rockets could reach the cap floor: https://www.spotrac.com/nba/houston-rockets/cap/. They were about $40 million below the floor before he signed, which is almost exactly the AAV on his new deal. There's very little chance Fred would have gotten that kind of money without a team desperate to add salary. I certainly didn't want him back with the Raptors at that price.
  9. I actually liked what I saw from the three you mentioned, it was more a comment of how OEL last year wasn't any better than guys with next to no NHL experience. The best case scenario for next year was that OEL returned to being the player he was in 2021-22 and even then he probably wasn't worth a +$7 million cap hit. Of course there's no guarantee that the Canucks will be able to find more cost-effective defencemen to replace him, but I still think there are better odds of that working than just hoping OEL can play way better than last year, even if he was injured.
  10. It was honestly pretty damning that the Canucks could play AHL call-ups and college free agents in OEL's place and not look any worse. I really don't have as much problem with this as other people do because I'm not at all optimistic that he'll ever be worth his most recent cap hit ever again. There was no universe where the Canucks were gonna get out of his contract for free. The dead salary from the buyout was gonna either stay on the roster in the form of OEL or be removed at the expense of other premium assets (picks + prospects). At least now they have the certainty of knowing they can use whatever space they have to put the guys they want in his place.
  11. One thing I always appreciate about the Cup celebration is that the media members respect the players and give them space to celebrate. NBA and NFL players have a million cameras shoved in their face the moment the game ends.
  12. Yeah, he'll probably be used as a bulk guy to back up Francis. In any event, I mean no disrespect to White. They could have called up nobody and I would have said it's better than keeping Bass around.
  13. More or less said that he sticks by his 'personal beliefs' yesterday, which basically confirmed that he only regretted causing a distraction. Front office probably decided that was the last straw. About time, honestly. He hasn't shown a lick of meaningful remorse for the hateful stuff he shared. They called up Mitch White, who has been dreadful in his minor league rehab starts, but I'd still rather have him on the roster than Bass.
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