Pat Drown

@JesseBarfield29 You blessed us with your play throughout the years. One of our greats and a personal favourite!

Thank you 🇨🇦Blue Jay Fans🇨🇦 for supporting me all of the 80’s in Toronto. This was me showing my gratitude to ALL of you just after I hit my 40th HR of the 86 season on Oct. 3 at Exhibition Stadium, a moment I will never forget! Hats off to you guys! Much Love And Respect!👍🏽🙏🏽👊🏽

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was born on March 10, 1940, in Ryan, Oklahoma. His father, Ray Norris, was a World War II veteran who drove trucks and drank heavily. His mother, Wilma, worked herself to exhaustion raising Chuck and his two younger brothers on almost nothing after Ray walked out. Chuck was not the kid anyone noticed. He was painfully shy. Quiet in class. Never athletic. He tried football in high school and spent most of his time warming the bench. No talent scouts. No big dreams. Just a boy from a broken home trying to disappear into the background. Then the Air Force sent him to Korea in 1958. He was 18 years old. Lost. Unsure of himself. Far from home in a country he had never heard of a year earlier. It was at Osan Air Base in South Korea that Chuck first watched local men train in Tang Soo Do. Something woke up inside him. Not just the discipline. Not just the fighting. Something deeper. A sense of who he could actually become. He earned his black belt. Then another. Then another. He came home in 1962 with a rank of Airman First Class and a purpose he had never had before. He applied to be a police officer in Torrance, California. While he waited to hear back, he opened a tiny martial arts school to pay the bills. That tiny school changed everything. Bruce Lee walked in. Steve McQueen followed. Hollywood came knocking. But in 1970, life broke him in a way no fight ever could. His younger brother Wieland was killed in Vietnam. Chuck was 30 years old. He rarely spoke about it publicly. He carried that grief quietly, the way men of his generation were taught to carry things. But people close to him said it never fully left. You could see it in the roles he kept choosing. The soldiers. The rescuers. The men fighting to bring someone home who everyone else had already given up on. His faith held him through it. Not the loud, performative kind. The quiet kind. The kind that gets you out of bed when you have no good reason to get up. Chuck spoke about his belief in God the same way he spoke about his brother. Carefully. Honestly. Without a trace of pretence. By the late 1970s, he was starring in action films that made him a household name. Missing in Action. Delta Force. Walker, Texas Ranger ran for eight straight years and turned him into a global icon. Black Belt magazine awarded him a 10th degree black belt, the highest honour in the martial arts world. He founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do, and the United Fighting Arts Federation has awarded more than 3,300 black belts worldwide. In 2005, the internet made him a myth. Chuck Norris Facts spread across the world. He did not create them. But he embraced them with the same quiet grin he had carried since Korea. He wrote his own book of favourites. He appeared on talk shows laughing at himself. A man who had survived real tragedy somehow became the world's favourite joke about invincibility. Ten days before he died, he posted a video of himself sparring with a trainer in Hawaii. He was 86 years old. Grinning. Punching. Living. He wrote: "I don't age. I level up." On March 19, 2026, surrounded by his family and at peace, Chuck Norris passed away suddenly in Hawaii. He is survived by five children. By a legacy that spans martial arts, film, faith, and the kind of quiet grief that only people who have truly loved and lost will ever understand. From a fatherless, shy boy in Oklahoma to a global legend. From a bench-warmer nobody noticed to a name the entire world knew. He didn't level up by accident. He levelled up because he never once stopped getting back up.

@PascallPatrick @ByMHarrington Because his skate was kicked

@ByMHarrington He lost his balance. It’s clear.

Brutal slew foot by Tkachuk.

@Russ4king @ByMHarrington That is a bone jarring landing. Been through that myself and hope Dahlin is good

@ByMHarrington I am not a Tkachuk fan at all, but that wasn’t that bad from that replay. And Dahlin laid there like a doll trying to draw a sympathy penalty. Not a good look either.

@FrankGugs @mattyports Not totally, saw him slap his stick on the ice after his line gave up a Czechia goal

Let me see, you are judging him by two games, Toronto fans are judging him over a 10 year history. He choked over and over while he was here in the playoffs, history is history it can't be unwritten because of the two games you observed. Also besides that flukey goal he was invisible in the game.

Stone asked abt Marner's rep for not coming up big. "As a teammate, I haven't experienced that. 4Nations, gets a huge OT goal for us, makes an incredible play for the winner. Then tonight, when we need him the most, he makes the play. "So, um ... I think it's a Toronto thing."

If you’re wondering what an arrogant, corrupt and lying piece of shit looks like.

@bnicholsonsmith @ShiDavidi Sad, he earned a bump

Blue Jays won their arb case over Eric Lauer, source tells @ShiDavidi and me. Lauer will earn $4.4 million rather than $5.75.

@nkinsocal @Feinsand @KeeganMatheson Pay the man, he earned it

@Feinsand @KeeganMatheson 4th most innings pitched last season for Jays….i wish he had won. He deserved it.

Eric Lauer has lost his arbitration hearing against the Blue Jays, per source. Lauer will earn $4.4 million in 2026; he had filed at $5.75 million.

@courtlalonde @Paris__G Story of the leafs is asset mismanagement

Modern Era trades between Toronto and Boston Boston gets: Tuukka Rask 2010 First (Seguin) 2010 Second (Jared Knight) 2011 First (Dougie Hamilton) Tomas Kaberle Fraser Minten Conditional 2026 1st-round pick 2025 4th-round pick (Vashek Blanar)

@johnpavlovitz @asmartbrunette1 I hope so, but your system has failed so spectacularly when pressed lately

The American People will prevail over this fascist regime.

I’m just going to say something to MAGA real quick, and I’m not going to bother arguing with any of you any further. There simply is no point. I fear that you don’t quite realize what is going on right now because you have a boot shoved so far down your throat that you can’t see what’s literally right in front of you. The government is infringing on your first amendment right, second amendment right, and fourth amendment right. You simply don’t care because you see it happening to people that you don’t like; people that you believe deserve it, and you think that it will never happen to you but you are sadly mistaken. The government is turning against its citizens and violating the constitution. You are not exempt to that and you will find that out very soon. So, while you may not agree with the people damaging buildings or throwing ice snowballs at Federal agents, or “getting in the way,” you should be on the side of American citizens who are losing their freedoms because that includes YOU wether you believe that or not. The government is not going to spare you because you support them, they don’t know you and they don’t care about you.

@gator_gum @TheBuckYouWill Bit of column A, bit of column B

@TheBuckYouWill They don't know the difference between a trade deal with China and free trade? Or, are they just full of absolute shit?

🚨CARNEY IS *LITERALLY* LYING TO YOUR FACE.🚨

@TheCinesthetic Das Boot!

What’s the one foreign-language film you’d recommend to someone who only watches English movies?

@CommonS59577379 @suzamaroo Laughable

@oboat7 @suzamaroo The only thing holding NATO together is the US.

Dear #MAGA fucktards! Invading Greenland would be national suicide—a real curb stomping moment. Here’s what’s gonna happen since you seem to not be able to critically think your way out of a fucking paper bag: - NATO dies instantly. - EU + every sane ally hits us with sanctions 10× worse than Russia/Iran combined. - Dollar gets kicked out of reserve status in weeks. Treasuries dumped like toxic trash. - US Companies crater from being expelled from ally nations. - Stocks crater 60–80%. Gas → $20+/gal. Unemployment → 20%+. - Multinationals flee. Supply chains vanish. 401(k)s → zero. Farms, businesses, homes — gone. Bread lines return. - Military prestige: permanently fucked. Recruitment collapses. Allies ghost us forever. Pentagon becomes the world’s cautionary tale. This isn’t “winning.” It’s torching the American empire, economy, military, and future in one spectacularly stupid move. You will own every starving, broke, humiliated second of the aftermath. Your red hats will be exhibit A in the history books titled “How Idiots ended America.” Even if we don’t do it, history will still piss on your graves.🖕 With absolute contempt, A Fucking Sane American Citizen

@suzamaroo Agree 💯

@oboat7 I meant NATO will end for us. But I see your point.

@dgardner @a_picazo Clearly there is no “North American” auto market. Out of their own presidents mouth! Definitely not serious people so pardon us if we ignore the faux outrage

We put a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs because you asked us to. You thanked Canada by hammering us with tariffs, threatening to tear up free trade, and insisting we become "the 51 state." Now we're at fault for going back to the earlier status quo? You are ridiculous people.

@guyverhofstadt @mhmck If those tariffs hit, deliver a notice to vacate all US Bases on the continent. If they backtrack on tariffs, stick to notice. Actions have consequences. This is from the front lines if it all goes to shit

Europe must do three things: -10% tariff on all American imports going up to 25% if the American tariffs stay in place; -break up the Internet monopolies and halting the transfer of our data to the other side of the Atlantic; -most urgently establish a European Defense Union including army.

@RodKahx Yup. USA actions in Greenland doesn’t end NATO for anyone other than US

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will outlast US involvement. It has to.