Are the Blue Jays baseball's biggest optimists?

First up: Yes, I got a haircut and it doesn’t look amazing here. I did not bother to get specifically camera-ready at 11:30 and, as a result, it’s definitely giving little page boy. Let’s look past that.

We talk about: The Dodgers’ sloppy play, would we eat Davis Schneider’s “nasty soup,” how I think Trey Yesavage should win something, the best names of people tangentially related to the game last night, what Zach is reading lately, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s superstar turn, and, relatedly, how the Blue Jays represent something very rare in sports these: Boldness banking on optimism.

Here are some relevant links to what we discussed:

• We spoke for 32:34 and Craig just tweeted it out:

• The back-to-back home runs that led off the game

• …and Sam Miller’s very good (and oft-cited here) piece about the first pitch of the game.

• Davis Schneider’s “nasty soup” and the post that inspired me to seek it out.

• Some Trey Yesavage highlights (if you swipe through):

As we said in the video, we’ll send out more of a written thing before Game 6! And then, you probably won’t hear from us again until there’s a champion.

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