Ryan McNutt

Ryan McNutt

@mcnutt.bsky.social

University comms person. Sporadic freelance music writer. Musicology grad. Dog dad from Dartmouth. Jays / Habs / Raptors. Eternal poptimist.

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Turns the most historically politicized part of our province’s infrastructure is… still political.

NS Auditor General@nsauditorgeneral.bsky.social

While NS road paving projects quickly outpace funding, those selected each year aren’t backed by evidence, AG Kim Adair says in a new audit. Adair makes 9 recommendations, all geared to making evidence-based road investment decisions: www.oag-ns.ca/audit-reports/preserving-and-restoring-paved-roads

A World Series between two teams who’ve never won the World Series before. No matter what, we’re getting a first-time champion.That’s pretty rad.

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Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

I’m sure he’s run into more than enough one-liners in his professional career already, but a little nod towards “yeah, it’s pretty funny that our top medical official is named DOCTOR KANCIR” would’ve been a welcome addition.

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it's so funny that people will always say "Springsteen" when people talk about songwriters on labour, when really so much of his work is about how the most heterosexual man in the world can yearn like a lesbian

Andrea made such a big impression on me when we served on the Polaris Music Prize grand jury in 2013. Funny, insightful, whip-smart with good cheer to burn. Every new book or article from her instantly went on top of my reading list. Gutted, and can only imagine how those who knew her better feel.

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social

Remembering Vancouver music writer Andrea Warner, who died this week of cancer at age 47 This is a beautiful remembrance that includes many links to Andrea's work. www.cbc.ca/music/andrea...

Cursed Jays season. Came alive in the dog days of summer and made the season fun at the end, but were too banged up and the hole they’d dug was too deep to get out of. Sometimes, you’d squint and see greatness. And others, the good was hard to spot. But it was still grand to cheer for these boys.

The crowd was so loud today. NO ONE is leaving for the George and Max farewells. The boys were bruised and broken and maybe could have done better, but man, Blue Jays baseball is alive and well in Canada.

Incredible wrestling move right there from John Schneider, running to take Scherzer “out of the game,” playing the heel, and then leaving him in to thunderous applause. A+ cheap heat.

It’s a good thing the Jays are having a nice final game because the games that actually mean something today are all defaulting to the most boring possible outcomes.

With the Jays eliminated, my favourite MLB playoff race is the AL West, where one of these teams will, at BEST, tie the all-time record for fewest wins (82) by an MLB division winner. More likely, the record is broken — and the prospect of the ENTIRE division ending under .500 is still in play.

And because of how imbalanced the AL is this year, and MLB's commitment to a seeded tournament, whoever wins that awful division arguably has an easier path to the League Championship series than the top-performing Rays, Yankees, or Red Sox. Baseball, baby!

Pete Alonso using a sledgehammer as his warm up bat is very silly, but I think it's juuuuust on the side of silly-good versus silly-bad. Maybe.

You know it’s bad when Brand is out of words to describe the traffic situation. He’s already dropped the “Stop all the collisions” meme and has nothing left to give.

Matt Brand@mattbcbc.bsky.social

Just....you know...absolutely one of the worse traffic mornings I've seen since I started working here There's no way around any of this. Work from home if you can #HFXTraffic

Not the preferred outcome, but honestly some relief treating tonight’s game - Cease clearly spent, game quickly out of hand - as the end of the Jays’ playoff hopes. They made a run, but runway’s run out. 8 more games to enjoy on their own terms, and preparing to bid farewell to Old Man Springer.

A fittingly cursed end to a bruised, broken year of baseball misfortune: Blue Jays finally begin to look like a passable (though hardly great) offensive team (Sept is their best month of the season by OPS)… and they just run of pitching.

I have MANY QUALMS about the particulars of Mark Carney's government, but his capacity to delivering substantial and insightful remarks on the global stage is... rather unparalleled in the modern Canadian era? Maybe even unparalleled within a wider lens of comparison?

Glad the Blue Jays found a groove in August to make things interesting, but this team is too broken, too beleaguered, and just not complete enough. Played too mediocre for too long and now there’s just not enough time or gas in the tank left to make it up.

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Like… if you’re asking a pitcher who wasn’t good enough FOR THE ROCKIES to be your long man in a bullpen day when you’re fighting for the last gasps of your playoff hopes… it’s clearly not how you drew up this point in the season.

And the Guardians, down to their last strike, get a two-run double to walk off the White Sox and gain a game on the Jays. Saxophones getting louder.

Glad the Blue Jays found a groove in August to make things interesting, but this team is too broken, too beleaguered, and just not complete enough. Played too mediocre for too long and now there’s just not enough time or gas in the tank left to make it up.

That said: you don’t have to squint much to see how a healthier team can compete next year (if there is a next year). Since the trade deadline, they’ve been among the best teams in baseball. They won multiple series against the league’s top teams. They just need to do it for 162 games, not 40.

Not quite the same play — not a potential game-ender, for one — but man, why do I feel like that Varland error against the Tigers is going to be a hindsight dagger the way Semien’s error against the Tigers was in 2021?

It is far - FAR - from the most significant thing to be thinking/worrying about in these dreary days. But I often wonder what it says about this moment and our culture systems that people just seem to be listening to the same songs over and over and over again.

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For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

What was wrong about Obama’s most famous speech is there ARE two Americas, but not necessarily the ones he cited. There’s: 1) one willing to earnestly debate how to apply the constitution and its values 2) one that tolerates that debate only until it threatens their patriarchal white supremacy.

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social

Trying to manage these people as if they're standard participants in a multicultural democracy misses the point, because they have no interest in multicultural democracy or being one component of it; they want a system that treats them as a privileged class lording it over everyone else.

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The Cardinals, in response to home-plate umpire Doug Eddings telling rookie Hancel Rincon to fix his hat last night, all wore tipped caps in their dugout tonight. The Rockies did, as well, after Eddings claimed Hunter Goodman asked for Rincon to fix his hat, something Goodman strongly denied.

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Imagine giving Baudrillard different kinds of Gatorade to try and watching him get progressively more depressed as you told him the names of each flavor

Wasn't totally on the "claim Luis Robert Jr" train for the Jays, but it wasn't NOT compelling. Now, with news that the Jays passed AND the Orioles reportedly claiming him... gonna be quite the sliding doors moment if he makes a big contribution in those all-important Toronto/Baltimore games.

Doubt we'll get an answer as to WHY the team didn't bite on Robert Jr., but if the idea was that Daz Cameron / Myles Straw + $5M in your pocket is the better right-handed outfielder option for the rest of the season... I have my doubts? (Then again, not my money.)

Ok this clarifies things: likely the reason the Jays didn’t bite on Robert Jr is simply they see Keys (who’s been playing more outfield) as a more viable option. bsky.app/profile/keeg...

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social

#BlueJays announce their Sept. 1 roster moves: • LHP Ricky Tiedemann is up • INF Sean Keys is up • LHP Joe Mantiply has been activated from the IL and is active • INF Josh Smith has been activated from the IL and is active • OF Daz Cameron DFA’d

Funky Fred’s Video Rentals. First place we rented a NES from along with too many VHS tapes to mention. My recollection of the community gossip was it closed because its tax returns were as funky as the rentals.

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Worth remembering how much contemporary conservatism (particularly MAGA) is projection — assuming other political actors see and move through the world as you do. Hence: arguing Carney is just "doing what's best for Liberals" because the current US gov really only does what's best for Republicans.

cbc.caAmerica 'not at war' with Canada, insists U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent | CBC NewsUnited States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted his country is "not at war" with Canada, then proceeded to mock the threat Canada could pose to his country with "submarines from the Edmonton m...