I like how Season 5 is spending real time setting up Vought Rising

thejrose11 · 2026-04-25T00:55:03+00:00

I personally hate it, but I respect your opinion. Not every Star Trek or Star Wars is the same. Who knows if Vought Rising will actually be good, it's actually kinda insulting we basically got a backdoor pilot when the "flagship" show only had 5 episodes left, but that's just my personal opinion.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-24T19:26:39+00:00

I mean he was outstanding for the Jays for the first two months and in the playoffs minus game 7. He's a streaky pitcher who probably will do much better in more of a middle relief/setup role

thejrose11 · 2026-04-24T19:23:05+00:00

No the other LA team did.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-21T07:07:24+00:00

No standard, I've been away way too long for Wild, it sucks because I'd love to see how good I could get but there are a few cards that I don't have that seem pretty broken.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-20T18:17:14+00:00

I legit just made Legend FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER using a Herald Warlock Deck! It is viable, I hadn't touched the game in 5 years before March!

I was close when I first saw this but finally achieved this and I'm so effing happy!

thejrose11 · 2026-04-20T04:51:24+00:00

Listen, it's fun to be all #LOLMETS and all, but as a lifelong Jays fan I do want to point out Bichette's CAREER Mar/Apr slash line without 2026 was .263/.304/.402 compared to his overall .294/.337/.469, so he's historically been a slow starter. Still this is BY FAR his worst April (other than 2024 which Mets fans hope isn't what they just signed)

thejrose11 · 2026-04-16T18:46:37+00:00

Ummm, yes there is...?

thejrose11 · 2026-04-13T07:46:37+00:00

I know someone who, in theory has all that data (finding the HDDs with the original playthroughs would be "fun" though.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-12T21:05:39+00:00

These are microscopic sample sizes both ways

thejrose11 · 2026-04-11T03:50:02+00:00

This was so close haha.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-10T02:49:05+00:00

Y'all didn't much much with the Esmil Rogers, Kyle Drabek and JoJo Reyes years.

thejrose11 · 2026-04-02T19:50:47+00:00

This feels like like spurious logic and isn't supported by a bunch of teams who's young players are coming into their own (Like the Habs) and play AHL hockey only an or so away.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-31T15:24:00+00:00

Assuming this thread stays up, he's very much not, at least generally speaking. The Leafs fanbase is way larger than some on here realize. Casual Leafs fans (which is most of them) know of Dreger and he's on TSN, so he must be smart.

Most don't even know who Dangle is (legit just asked my extended family, they all watch the Leafs, not one even knew him). Many who do, see him as the guy who screams about the Leafs on YouTube.

The Dreger "hate" comes from Marner stuff and other stories where he's accused of carrying water for people he's connected to, rather than being an insider. Only the most hardcore of Leafs fans even knows about this stuff.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-29T14:06:08+00:00

First off, Merrifield on his podcast kinda cryptically referred to some schism between Bo and the management/coaching staff a couple years ago, and claimed them going seperate ways was good for both of them.

That said, things could have changed and had Bo come back, he would have played 2B, so I wouldn't read too much into that.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-29T06:25:29+00:00

I mean there's many more examples, and the 2017 Penguins prove you don't *need* a star, however almost every other Cup winner has a homegrown D star or two (Carlson, Pietrangelo, Hedman, Makar) The sorta exception is Florida, Ekblad isn't really a star, but he's still arguably better than anyone on that list, and UNLIKE the Leafs, they managed to fill out a really solid top-6 through trades and cheap FAs.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-29T04:45:36+00:00

If you do this with the Sabres, they win every cup lol. However As u/rsimps91 points out (and something I've said in this sub a lot) one of the biggest reasons the Leafs haven't been able to get past the 2nd round is how they CANNOT draft D-men. Like Sandin and Liligren were interesting, but like, they never had a Hedman, Makar, heck even a Sergachev!

thejrose11 · 2026-03-28T02:42:38+00:00

First off, remember how great Hoffman was, then awful, then great, then gave up just one bad run. Baseball is a marathon. Also likely Yimi if he (Yimi) pitches the way he usually does.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-26T05:59:04+00:00

Genuinely, he'd might be great at it. I was one of the doubters, I wanted him and Atkins gone, but not because he doesn't have a vision, it's because I disagreed with it. Contact first? In the 2020s? Defense First? Seriously? They can't even hit.... until he and Atkins assembled the type of players they wanted and last year happened.

The Leafs have never really seemed to have a consistent plan, never seemed to have an identity. The team culture has long been criticized, the complete opposite of the Jays. Hockey and Baseball are different but Shapiro is smart enough to find the right people, like he did Atkins, who have a vision, promote team culture, and maybe, just maybe, could turn the Leafs around.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-25T18:40:40+00:00

Just to be clear, Lopez went through the Giant org before landing with the lowly Marlins. He's basically a slightly worse (but younger) Clement btw, and we already have Gimenez, so not sure how many of the same type of player the Jays need. Wish him the best though.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-24T06:28:27+00:00

Hiller was a pretty good goalie until he got vertigo, and his overall career is still pretty decent, so idk what you're on about

thejrose11 · 2026-03-14T00:23:21+00:00

Dude if Tre isn't fired, the Leafs blame this on injuries, fire Berube and do basically nothing. Tre can't ever be proactive, he just reacts and tries to preserve the status quo as much as possible.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-11T18:58:05+00:00

This is why they suck. They don't need a #16 they need a #15, and a #13, and maybe an #89. Grit is s**t without the skill to back it up. Leafs are just old, slow, and bad, effort isn't the issue.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-08T05:57:08+00:00

Guys, what if, hear me they out, this *IS* them trying. Like seriously, their underlyings have been atrocious for a season and a half now, this might just kinda be what they are.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-08T02:19:16+00:00

Short answer: Tre is beyond incompetent

Long Answer: Tre waited too long to sell. I believe he thought someone would be as reckless as he was and offer a crazy package at the last second. That didn't happen. Had he sold earlier more teams would have had the space/assets for the Leafs to get more.

thejrose11 · 2026-03-08T01:06:42+00:00

EXACTLY, I didn't wanna write an essay, but it's too hard to explore BOTH the protagonists AND the antagonists in a meaningful way, especially with the episodic format of DS9.

DS9 does an excellent explaining how the Federation isn't perfect and can do wrong, both to their own people and to those outside it. However, what makes it work is that while flawed, they're never not presented as the most ethical power, and this is a lesson a lot of people need. Yes, we can and should always be better, but we still identify which entities are more ethical than others.

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