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View Poll Results: Blue Jays or Federal Election?
Blue Jays in the ALCS 61 46.92%
Federal Election Results 58 44.62%
neither 11 8.46%
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Old 10-17-2015, 12:37 PM   #21
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I've made three posts on the subject. One of them defending Bautista's bat flip.
But it has had a significant impact on my life, I have to listen to QR770 now. Do you know how dumb Kincaid and Brekenridge are? Danielle Smith is probably the best host they have and she mostly just pats herself on the back for her past accomplishments.
Do you need some help getting through these obviously trying times?
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Old 10-17-2015, 03:32 PM   #22
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I'm a weirdo who booked the 20th Oct off months ago, so I could stay up late and watch the Conservatives lose, and not have to get up early for work the next morning.

Also, I don't care about baseball.
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Old 10-17-2015, 04:15 PM   #23
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Election for sure.

The Jays are already getting annoying with the over exposure they are getting and the obnoxiousness of their fans. I know people complain about TSN being the Toronto Sports Network when it comes to the Leafs but personally I think the Jays coverage, from Sportsnet especially, has been much worse and more off putting than anything the Leafs coverage has had.
You only think that because the Leafs don't make the playoffs.
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Old 10-18-2015, 09:54 AM   #24
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Sad when a lame sports game will take precedence over a national election of this magnitude. Especially for a sport and team no one out here cared about three months ago. The faster the bandwagon falls apart the better. All these "jays fans" around the city is nauseating.
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Old 10-18-2015, 10:03 AM   #25
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I will watch the Jays game on TV. Election on the iPad

Election coverage without drinking for every seat your party games is horrid to watch. Panel of people saying the same platitudes each year of what went right and what went wrong. Poor coverage of interesting close races. Poor analysis of the statistics behind decisions. A rush to be the first person to declare the outcome. People celebrating as soon as the outcome by a news outlet is declared as if it is somehow meaningful.

All of it is terrible.

I will be following on my iPad where you have fantastic access to information of every riding in the country. And can look at whatever data you want. I will never watch another election telecast again.
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Old 10-18-2015, 10:05 AM   #26
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Sad when a lame sports game will take precedence over a national election of this magnitude. Especially for a sport and team no one out here cared about three months ago. The faster the bandwagon falls apart the better. All these "jays fans" around the city is nauseating.
It's election results vs a baseball game. Not election vs baseball game

The work for the election has been done. Any affect that you as an individual could make is over. Essentially at that point watching either telecast is just cheering on laundry.
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Old 10-18-2015, 11:52 AM   #27
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You only think that because the Leafs don't make the playoffs.
I have been around for the Leafs in the play-offs and it wasn't close to as bad as this is.
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Old 10-19-2015, 01:52 PM   #28
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I'll have the Jays game on the TV and the election results on my tablet. CBC will have a youtube livestream for their election coverage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWFNl0K18A4
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Old 10-19-2015, 02:20 PM   #29
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I am not a baseball fan, or a sports fan really. It's only hockey for me, so the Blue Jays aren't an election distraction at all.
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Old 10-19-2015, 03:33 PM   #30
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I can't fathom how someone couldn't handle multi tasking the game on tv and election results on the phone? It's baseball. Nothing is happening. Literally 18 minutes of action takes place in a 3 hour game and that's including balls in play, runner advancement attempts on stolen bases, wild pitches, pitches (balls, strikes, fouls and balls hit into play), trotting batters (on home runs, walks and hit-by-pitches), pickoff throws and even one fake-pickoff throw. (http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-...erage-mlb-game).

If you can't manage that then you're quite special.

If you don't care about one or the other than that's a different story.

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Literally 18 minutes of action takes place in a 3 hour game
So more action in the baseball game than in election coverage?
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So more action in the baseball game than in election coverage?
Yup. No argument there.
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I have been around for the Leafs in the play-offs and it wasn't close to as bad as this is.
I find the intensity waxes and wanes with the tides of the moon.
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Old 10-19-2015, 06:54 PM   #35
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Neither. I don't care about the Blue Jays at all, and I'll check the election results later.
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...well so far the Jays game has been about a hundred times more entertaining than the election. Every time I look it's either 33-0 or 32-1 Liberal results. It's like watching early 90s Undertaker vs Barry Horowitz


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