Chris Keck

What a photo #HockeyGuys

Appreciate @ConceptualJames shining a light here. He’s right. What happened in Lethbridge is the tip of an iceberg. I’m going to vent a bit. Please, if you care about kids and are concerned about Canada and the horrific direction it is headed, please re-post this, and demand better from our federal government. I’ve been sleepless, and searching for the right word to describe the anger and frustration I feel knowing that this injustice has happened in my home province, and is happening across this country. I am truly grieved. My daughter is 15. These girls assaulted by Atoa are somebody’s daughter too, and a judge released him. Releasing a person who forcibly confines, sexually assaults, trafficked and drugs children is completely indefensible, and it’s nowhere near the standards and values which built this country. Honestly, I have a difficult time recognizing Canada anymore. We used to be known for standing up for those who couldn’t. Now we release child traffickers, child rapists, child sexual abuse material producers and users back into the community. It is madness, and complete and total moral and societal decay. 50 year old Atoa was forcibly confining and offending against 3 children. The 14-year-old was found inside in medical distress, transported to the hospital, and reported being forcibly confined for three days, during which she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Atoa and other men while being forced to consume drugs. Atoa was RELEASED ON BAIL after being charged with: -Human trafficking (trafficking of a person under 18) -Sexual assault of a child under 16 -Sexual interference -Obtaining sexual services of a child for consideration -Indecent exposure to a child under 16 -Sexual exploitation or counsel of a child -Three counts of unlawful confinement He has such little regard for authority and the law that Atoa was re-arrested for breaking his conditions approximately 1/2 HOUR after his release. There are many decent good-willed Canadians who support @NIMCAlly and @albertacentre_ , as well as our excellent Law Enforcement partners including @lethpolice, but bringing justice to victims and holding perpetrators accountable requires MAJOR justice system reform. It also requires Canadians to stand up and demand better for our country, and for our children. Please visit notinmycity.ca/learn and use our free resources to educate yourself on the indicators of human trafficking and to learn what to do when you see it. Awareness AND action is required. There is hope and a better way. But it will require all of us working together. One way to show your outrage and demand change is to sign the #NotInMyCity petition to reverse Canada’s Supreme Court decision which erodes and weakens Canada’s laws protecting kids. Sign the petition, send letters, share widely: notinmycity.ca/protect-our-ch… One click makes a difference. Sign, Send & Share. Let’s make Canada safer for kids. #NotInMyCity #JailNotBail #NotwithstandingClause #EndChildTrafficking

See you in the World Series, San Francisco. 🤝

I wonder if Teoscar Hernandez, Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki are gonna talk about how close they all were to being Blue Jays together

Happy Birthday @jtbourne !!!

Nathan Airey, the best goalie in the BCHL two years ago (so good he should have been on the World Junior team), is 8-0-1 in Minnesota.

Glad to hear he was OK, so that I can say without hesitation that this is the funniest National League shit I’ve ever seen.

@BenVerlander Looks lovely Ben!

Anniversary weekend 😍

Big moment, unreal play, and zero energy or life out of the broadcast booth.

Flawless execution right here by Jurickson Profar. This isn’t the Toronto Blue Jays in June. This is Dodger Stadium, in the postseason. #MLB #MLBPostseason #FightForTheFaithful

@mickeykoke @JURICKSONPROFAR Chills bro 🥶

This goes so hard! Jurickson Profar's legendary homerun robbery of Mookie Betts during game 2 of the NLDS Padres vs Dodgers. #FightForTheFaithful

@FrostyDFS Worth it

Got back to my car to a slashed tire 😂 fucking assholes must have seen me get off with padres gear. Whatever makes them feel better. I’ll trade a slash tire for a W any day.

@_JoeyPitt Bro this is ridiculously silly

silly view from our new place

Thank you, @RandyArozarena. I started with the Rays in 2019. It was a fun year. But then covid happened. 2020 was rough. But one day, in August of 2020, I hopped on a Zoom to do an interview with a guy I had frankly never really heard much of. He had had covid for a month, but had finally returned to make his Rays debut. This is a glimpse into our first interaction: Me: “…..You ate what for a month in quarantine?” Randy: “Hola Tricia. My name is Randy! I ate only chicken & rice for a month. I don’t know how to cook. So I did 100 push ups a day and ate chicken & rice.” That was my first impression of Randy Arozarena. Soon after, Randy made postseason history. He then lit the world up on the World Baseball Classic stage. He became an overnight sensation and instant fan favorite. But what you may not have seen behind the scenes is Randy’s passion for the people he cared for. When Randy decides you’re his friend or teammate or a true fan of his — he will do anything he can to make you happy as a fan, or to protect and defend you as his friend or his teammate — at all costs. That’s how he lives his life. A little Randy feel good story for you: Sometimes, as we know, women have creepers at the field. Various men in the stands who will push the limit, say gross things or get too close. I’ll never forget one time at the stadium, there was a random fan who was saying some not so nice things — yelling vulgarities from the seats in my direction. Randy, who doesn’t understand much English, somehow understood and noticed what was going on. It took about one glance from Randy and one step forward towards the stands/fan for the creep in the stands to know his place. The fan quickly disappeared into the crowd and I never saw him come back again. Randy must have thought that I deal with that often (thankfully I don’t) — but from that point forward, nearly everyday at the field, he would walk up to me and check in and say “Todo bien hoy?” AKA “Everything good today?” That’s the player I will miss with the Rays. Certainly the home runs, the fun antics — but mostly his passion for the game and for the people in the game.

@DarrenWHaynes Nice work on this, Darren.

Do you remember the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal? Don’t blame you if you don’t. That was the year that trades for Tyler Toffoli, Calle Jarnkrok, Dan Vladar, Nikita Zadorov, and Tyler Pitlick (!) left the Flames with only three picks. What about 2018 in Dallas? Again, I can’t fault you if you’re drawing a blank. Thanks to the Travis Hamonic and Mike Smith acquisitions, that year Calgary was left without a pick in the top 100. How about 2024 in Vegas? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. Seriously, what a compelling 24 hours it was for GM Craig Conroy. After making a whopping 10 selections — the most since 2004, back when the draft was nine rounds — the Flames prospect cupboard suddenly looks like my pantry after I get home from a $500 shop at Costco. To fully appreciate the haul of assets that Conroy is bringing home from Sin City, compare it to those other two drafts under former GM Brad Treliving. In 2022, with Calgary having renounced its second-round pick Topi Ronni, that leaves fifth-round pick Parker Bell, selected 155th overall, as the top prospect remaining. He just finished his overage season with Tri-City (WHL). For context, this weekend Conroy drafted eight guys inside the top 150. In 2018, 103 picks had already come off the board before Treliving finally got to test out his mic and select Martin Pospisil in the fourth round. This weekend, Calgary picked six times in the top 100, which hasn’t happened since 1997 when the NHL had six fewer teams. By the time Conroy drafted Russian goalie Kirill Zarubin with his second pick of round 3, he had already selected five young men, all of whom ooze high-skill and offensive panache, and that’s no exaggeration. ROUND 1: - Saginaw (OHL) D Zayne Parekh, selected 9th, piled up 33-63-96 in 66 games. His 1.45 points-per-game is the highest by an OHL blueliner since 2009. - Muskegon (USHL) RW Matvei Gridin went 38-45-83 in 60 games for the highest point total by a 17-year-old in the USHL since Matt Coronato. ROUND 2: - Medicine Hat (WHL) LW Andrew Basha was 30-55-85 in 63 games. - Kingston (OHL) LW Jacob Battaglia piled up 31-34-65 in 67 games. ROUND 3: - Ottawa (OHL) D Henry Mews was a sizzling 15-46-61 in 65 games. Wow. But wait, there’s more. ROUND 4: - Cobourg (OJHL) C Trevor Hoskin led that league with 42-58-100 in 52 games to be named league MVP. When Conroy flipped 108th pick to Philadelphia for picks 150 and 177, the gun show continued. ROUND 5: - Mississauga (OHL) C Luke Misa was picked next after leading his team with 26-55-81 in 66 games. ROUND 6: - Calgary closed off the day with Prince George (WHL) D Hunter Laing, who was 11-14-25, and Everett (WHL) D Eric Jamieson with 10-22-32. No Hunter Smith or Keegan Kanzig deja vu moments this year. All in all, the nine skaters picked amassed a combined 628 points last season (236 goals, 392 assists). Truculence, be damned. It resulted in quite an exhilarating weekend that had Flames Twitter on fire and not the usual kind. For once, it wasn’t an inferno in which screaming fans were running from the building, but more like a cozy bonfire with fans sitting around and in unison singing Conroy’s praises. This weekend in Vegas will be memorable for all 32 NHL teams and all 225 players selected for the dazzling show the league put on at Sphere, which truly looks like a bucket list-worthy building that everyone needs to visit. But Flames fans will remember it for a different reason. This was the draft that ignited and united a disgruntled fan base. Oh, there’s still much to do and some lean years ahead as the overhaul continues in Calgary, and like with any draft, this one comes with no guarantees. But as U2 sang countless times during its five-month residency at Sphere, “It’s a beautiful day.” Yep, it certainly was for Flames fans.

@PatrickAxelFol1 @TSN_Sports @UVABaseball It’s state law in Virginia that bananas are to be eaten like corn on the cob, or else.

@TSN_Sports @UVABaseball Ummmm what? Was he doing that because he knew he was on camera ? Haha

Bro is out here eating a banana like corn on the cob 🍌😂 (🎥: @UVABaseball)

So how did Audrey and I end up experiencing the incredible kindness and generosity of being gifted Game 4 Stanley Cup final tickets in Edmonton? A quick thread on one of the most memorable days of life.

@BlueJays @JohnnyGiunta_ Ewww whyyy @JohnnyGiunta_

The @BlueJays have named Ross Atkins as Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager.

@matweeds They did what Buffalo does lol but there’s been a lot of success for most of those individuals since leaving the Sabres.

@CK885 WOAH this was their team? What happened

This lineup looks like it was on the cusp of contending for a cup, and it didn’t even make the playoffs lol Sabres fans have it the absolute worst.

@will_caspers @citchmook Time to rip some packs boys

@citchmook @CK885 I can hear the hut anthem

Thoughts on Colorado's starting lineup for October 3, 2015?