Nick Ashbourne
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14,142 appearances
58 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Ashbourne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Part of the criticism of kind of the era of the Blue Jays before the World Series run happened was, sure, this team can make the playoffs, but clearly they're not one of the true big teams in baseball because they've never even won a playoff game.
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Now, you can talk about the randomness of small series and the fact that they, you know, they I think in a couple cases, like 21 and 22, I know they didn't make in 21.
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I think they legitimately had among the best teams in
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baseball in those two seasons and it just didn't work out.
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Which can be the case.
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Like at baseball playoffs are pretty crazy.
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I guess.
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But the criticism was this team can kind of get there, but ultimately they're a mediocre team because once they get there they never do anything.
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And so if you go back to the playoffs again this year, kind of back in your way in and then don't do anything, I am with you in that that probably feels like an overall failure
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failure because you're just kind of back where you started before the twenty twenty five World Series run, if anything a little worse because the record's probably not gonna be fantastic at the end of the day.
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So making it through a wild card series I think would mean something 'cause it would be, you know, after all these years of n doing literally nothing in the playoffs, at least they've had playoff victory of some sort in two straight years.
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But I can see the season
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looking like a pretty big missed opportunity because the American League is so wide open, they're just not good teams in this side of it.
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That's a part of it.
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That's a part of it.
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Yeah.
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And the Jays could have taken a decent step back and still comfortably won this wild card.
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And now they're fighting tooth and nail to do that, even with some of the performances like Dylan Sees and Near Cy Young, like Louis Varlin, perhaps the most dominant
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reliever in the major leagues or at least in the American league, Okamoto having a rookie season that's probably better than reasonable expectations.
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It often feels that way when you have individual performances that are special and the team doesn't go anywhere.
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