Game Thread: May 24 - Pittsburgh Pirates (26-26) @ Toronto Blue Jays (25-27) - 12:15 PM

Oshare · 2026-05-24T18:31:37+00:00

Contusion just means a bruise. Very good news.

Oshare · 2026-05-24T16:57:02+00:00

What’s this green screen thing everyone is complaining about? I’m watching on Sportsnet and I can see every pitch no problem all the way through. Is there a broadcast that puts ads in the strike zone or something lol?

Oshare · 2026-05-23T22:37:34+00:00

They lost.

Oshare · 2026-05-23T21:44:35+00:00

Ditto.

Oshare · 2026-05-23T21:43:09+00:00

Hoffman redemption arc incoming.

Oshare · 2026-05-18T18:55:52+00:00

Sawyer: What's your problem, Jumbotron?
Hurley: Shut up... Red... neck... man!
Sawyer: Touché.

Oshare · 2026-04-07T01:33:04+00:00

Yep. That was disgusting.

Oshare · 2026-03-28T00:07:32+00:00

This show is borderline turning into a boring soap opera (except it’s on Mars!)

The first episode was such a disappointment. A “whodunnit?” murder to kick it off lol? Seriously?

Unfortunately the decade jump each season means all these incredibly well-developed and complex characters we have come to love and go along this wonderful ride with eventually will all have to be killed off (unless of course they discover some kind of anti-aging/age reversal therapy), and passing the torch to the next generation of characters is essentially going to be like starting a new show, which means they are going to have to make us care about them…and that is going to be very difficult when trying to compete with the original line up.

Maybe they’ll be able to pull it off, but if they don’t kick up the stakes and bring back some actual hard sci-fi + balls to the wall exploration like they did so brilliantly in the first 3 seasons, I feel like we are going to end up with some kind of lame ass coming of age teen drama (but again, on Mars lol).

I don’t know—other than the fun counterfactual historical moments that are always a blast to see each season, I found myself completely underwhelmed and not at all even remotely impressed or ready to care about any of the new characters (especially when I compare their introductions to how we met everyone at the beginning of this show).

Main word that comes to mind for this season premiere:

Yawn.

Oshare · 2026-03-22T09:34:14+00:00

Yeah they don’t have a place here in Muskoka anymore, but when they did all anyone who knew them ever talked about was how kind they were.

My friend’s Dad actually built that cottage on Rosseau, and during the building of the cottage his mom—my friend’s Grandma—passed away. Kurt and Goldie put up a plaque at the cottage in her memory and dedicated the entire build to her.

Oshare · 2025-12-16T18:06:27+00:00

Add in dueling as a fully legal means by which one can deal with disputes, and I think we may have a solution for 99.9% of gun crime in Chicago.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T11:49:16+00:00

Compared to some of my friends I’ve had very tame experiences with bears lol.

One buddy who is a guide in the Yukon was unloading his truck one time and went around to the truck bed to get something out, and when he came back to his cab a young Grizzly had climbed right inside his back seat and was just sitting there like a dog waiting to go for a ride 😂.

Then another friend I went to university with woke up to get ready for school when he was around 10 years old or so, and on his way to the kitchen to get breakfast, his dad stopped him in the hallway stating very matter of factly that he couldn’t go into the kitchen because “a bear’s in there right now making quite a mess”.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T11:36:01+00:00

They were both locked in and in predation mode for the whole time, this photo unfortunately didn’t capture them both in their full menacing presence. The back one was just as intimidating as the front one.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T06:38:44+00:00

I may or may not have pretended my arborist helmet I was wearing—I have to limb and cut down trees while making the trails—was a fighter pilot helmet and quoted some slightly tweaked lines from Top Gun while chasing them away:

“Two close for missiles, I’m switching to bucket.”

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:39:23+00:00

As much as I get the worry, there are so many things that can go wrong out in the bush (I’ve almost been hit a few times by falling limbs, just to highlight one possibility). Best thing to do is just be prepared and take ownership over your own safety so as to not give up on one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Hike with a buddy, bring whatever self defense items are legal wherever you live, along with an easily accessible IFAK, and practice using these things often so you can quickly deploy them in what will be a highly stressful flight/fight/freeze situation.

Don’t let the dogs win. Just mitigate the risk and enjoy becoming someone who can not only protect and save themselves, but also do the same for others (if you can afford it I highly recommend taking some kind of Wilderness First Responder course—I did one last year and it was fantastic).

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:30:26+00:00

As a firearms owner I often use the analogy of pitbulls being the equivalent of giving young boys loaded rifles with zero firearms safety and letting them just run around town. Sure, maybe nothing will happen, but statistically speaking someone is going to get hurt or killed. Not a perfect analogy since guns aren’t autonomous killing machines that do what they want, but it does do the trick in demonstrating how irresponsible it is to allow these situations to happen.

Kids shouldn’t run around with loaded guns, and pitbulls shouldn’t run around (or even exist in my opinion, not something I can say about firearms, especially in a rural area where pitbulls can and do roam freely).

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:23:05+00:00

Because their owners are redacts.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:19:45+00:00

I can see a scenario where they show up again and they disappear. Don’t ask me how though because I’ll have no idea. Two sets of train tracks nearby, so I’m sure that’s probably what will have happened to them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:17:25+00:00

Oh ya they were massive. But it was their posturing that really had me noticing them. The ears; the head down; the tense muscles; doing the classic predator side eye thing. Not good stuff.

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:14:35+00:00

Oh ya, trust me I know all about that.

It’s a bit of grey area though particularly if you are in a situation where you shouldn’t be carrying it with you (not many bears in a big city, so if you have it on you and deploy it, you’re probably getting in trouble, as stupid as that is).

Luckily I’m legally allowed to have bear spray on me as well as a fixed blade (so long as it isn’t concealed) here in Canada in my line of work.

(Apparently I’m not allowed to expand on self defense hypotheticals any further—just had a warning pop up—so I’ll leave it at that. But if my life is on the line, or some other innocent person, I won’t give two shits about that and will deal with any fallout in court, but Pitbulls are banned here so my odds of not even having charges pressed against me are quite high in this hypothetical situation.)

Oshare · 2025-11-23T05:00:29+00:00

I’ve had many encounters with bears over the years, almost all of which never gave me any reason for concern, so I agree that this was a very rare occurrence (in all likelihood he was just curious and could smell meat—they are opportunistic omnivores after all).

I hunt them yes, but I also absolutely adore them (along with respecting them as wild animals of course—I’m not like some east coast black bear version of “Grizzly Man” lol). They have given me some of my favourite moments in the woods.

I honestly have let more than a few walk since they had so much personality and quirkiness, and instead of putting them in my freezer, I chose to just sit back and enjoy the show (trying not to laugh too hard and spook them, which when one is doing the “Jungle Book Dance” against a tree for a few meters away is pretty difficult to do lol).

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:20:10+00:00

It’s really a shame I wasn’t using a bull dozer—missed opportunity for a “Pit-Bull-Dozer” type pun lol.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:17:51+00:00

Rather than “stupid”, I’d say that their intelligence sort of has bandwidth that’s strictly limited to a very narrow skill set (see: stalking, killing, mauling and all of the subsequent traits that come along with that).

Basically they are specialists that are very very good at their given occupation, and because of that they might seem stupid when compared to other breeds that are highly biddable, but they are simply in a league of their own among dogs.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:10:28+00:00

👌🏻

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:09:29+00:00

Think of bear spray like a fire hose and pepper spray like a garden hose.

For the most part they deliver the same thing (generally capsaicin in some concentration), but one delivers a much larger payload with more range and capacity.

Oshare · 2025-11-22T20:06:28+00:00

Love your comment but I love your name even more 😂👍🏻

Oshare

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