Tim Gaines

Sports fanatic (Blue Jays, Vikings, Oilers, Islanders), father and husband, weather geek, traveler, dedicated worker.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

Without him, they are not close.

[Keegan Matheson @KeeganMatheson]

This is Kazuma Okamoto's team right now. He's the engine of the offence. #BlueJays

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

Hitting with RISP. Dead last in MLB.

[Josh Goldberg @JGoldberg12]

Situational hitting continues to be arguably this team's biggest Achilles heel

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

Unwatchable team right now.

[Brian @raptor10340]

Here's the Caleb Joseph rant for Jays fans who wanna listen!

(Sorry if it's hard to hear if some people have trouble listening)

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

Precisely.

[⚾️Alison T🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @TramontinAlison]

This loss is on Schneider. How has he not learned by now that Hoffman is not the option in the 9th? #BlueJays50

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

The pitchers should sue for non support.

[Keegan Matheson @KeeganMatheson]

Trey Yesavage is burning through the Yankees right now.

The #BlueJays' offence needs to scrape one over here. They can't leave this game one swing away from Yesavage losing it, he's been too good.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

Just bad.

[Zach @MarshaIIZach]

Chase % 2025 / 2026

Springer: 20.5% / 26.9%
Vlad: 21.5% / 30.4%
Sanchez: 30.6% / 39.9%
Gimenez: 34.9% / 44.2%
Varsho: 30.8% / 35.9%
Clement: 36.4% / 44.8%
Heineman: 32.4% / 44.2%
Barger: 31% / 35.5%
Kirk: 29.1% / 40.5%

Someone tell me what the hell is going on here.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@KeeganMatheson NOT A CLOSER!

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@KeeganMatheson Situational hitting has left the building. Figure it out.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The world is on edge today because of this fucking moron. He’s a felon, a rapist, a pedophile now threatening to wipe out a civilization.

A special “FUCK YOU” to his enablers and the 77 million who looked at this ignoramus and said, “Yep, that’s our guy.”

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@thehazelmae Delusional.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@KeeganMatheson Send him packing.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@IslesTerritory They do not belong in the playoffs.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Me, every single day.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@Gianl1974 Clean up your garbage.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The entire world hates your fucking guts and we’re all eagerly awaiting your obituary. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Not a truer word

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Thank you for everything, Buck 💙

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.

When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.

The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.

That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.

This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?

Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.

US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?

If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.

If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?

If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?

It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.

Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.

Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.

If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works."

It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books...

"We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

"This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."

"Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration."

"But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit.

"The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said.

"And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."

Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that.

The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet.

"But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."

"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."

There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage.

The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is destroying America.

[Tim Gaines @TSGainer]

@Sportsnet @ByRobertMurray Fuck them. See them in the series.