The Blue Jays keep winning, completing a series victory on Thursday night by taking their third of four from the Houston Astros — and, importantly, winning the season series and thereby giving themselves the tiebreaker in the event that both teams finish with the same record and tied for the final playoff spot. They’ve now won four straight series since their disastrous mid-May stumble against the Yankees, Orioles, and Rays.

More than that, though, after taking a number of off-field losses on Thursday, they announced a win on Friday afternoon. Anthony Bass has been designated for assignment!

Hey, it only took them 10 days and one more thoroughly embarrassing episode for the franchise to finally do something about the struggling reliever who amplified a video that called a huge number of fans demonic predators and literally called for a boycott of a major team sponsor, but who’s counting?

As I noted above, we recorded this episode on Thursday night, still dumbfounded by the Jays’ handling of the entire situation with Bass. Fortunately, all those questions remain relevant, even though they did eventually get it right in the end. (Which, as Nick points out, is better than never reaching the right conclusion at all).

Also fortunate? The Bass stuff was only a portion of this week’s episode, as we also did a quasi-traditional vibe check, and talked extensively about the Alek Manoah situation, the sudden resurgence of Brandon Belt, and more.

Have a listen!

You can find us in all the usual places, such as Apple Podcasts…

…as well as Spotify, and others. (Google Podcasts continues to incredibly stupid about our switch back to our previous Substack-based RSS feed, but I assure you I’m continuing to try to get it sorted! In the meantime, if you’re a Google Podcasts user you can add us to your app via RSS — just right click and copy this link.)

THE BATFLIP is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

⚾ Be sure to follow me on Twitter // Follow the Batflip on Facebook // Want to support without going through Substack? You could always send cash to [email protected] on Paypal or via Interac e-Transfer. I assure you I won’t say no. ⚾

Get full access to THE BATFLIP at stoeten.substack.com/subscribe

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.