We've got a couple of very different things going on during this one, as the GM Meetings took place down in Las Vegas this week, and with teams in a rush to get business in before the expiry of the current CBA, and the beginning of lockout it is presumed will follow, the offseason rumours are already flying.
And then, on the other side of things, we've got the whole messy business with Anthony Santander and his sharing of hate speech on social media last week.
The Blue Jays have done—well... maybe not their best to try to make it go away—but they've at least attempted to make it go away by touching it as lightly as possible, for days and days, as the saga has dragged on, only managing to worse.
Since we recorded this one there has actually, finally, been a response from Santander himself—albeit one that appears to have been AI generated (and, yes, I know that Spencer sometimes shitposts, but I ran it through Pangram myself and got the same result). So, that's a little bit frustrating for the sake of this episode, but much of our focus was on the Jays' absurd fumbling of the situation anyway.
So have a listen!
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