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It's getting a little weird, isn't it, how often Kevin Gausman pitches really very well indeed in front of a packed SkyDome only to be bested by Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching absurdly well on the other side of things? Like, how many times in a row do you figure that's probably going to happen? Is it an infinity of times? I would imagine Kevin Gausman—who told Hazel Mae he watched and/or listened to (whilst working out) every one of his postseason starts in order to deal with the heartbreak of it all and move on (it's like going through old voicemails before deleting them after a bad breakup, he offered, in a rare window into a man best known in Toronto for his love of cinnamon buns [no diss whatsoever; it's a strong legacy])—is at least as tired of it as the rest of us, if not more so. "Haha!" he must surely be thinking. "That quirky thing has occurred once more!" And so here we are. It is worth considering that, even if this season goes badly—there's no real reason to think that it will, yet, but let's say that it does—even then, this losing streak that we are currently on will probably end up being the longest one of the whole season even if that streak (the losing one) ends tomorrow. We're just getting it out of the way early, probably! And in the reasonably unlikely event that this does not prove to be the case, and we have a bunch of stretches like this (again, an unlikely scenario), then we've got much bigger problems than this one bad stretch that we're on right now. So either way, things are probably pretty okay?
KS
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