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Carney challenges Trump to make a bet on World Series as Canada’s team plays Dodgers
AP ^ | Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Rob Gillies

Posted on 10/23/2025 7:01:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: bigdaddy45
Guess that bet is off...oh Boo Hoo:


41 posted on 10/23/2025 8:20:37 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: bigbob
Trump: “OK, Mark, but I only bet big. So how about if I win, Canada becomes our 51st state?”

If you win, you can have Chuckle Schumer.

42 posted on 10/23/2025 8:32:14 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: MinorityRepublican

Chauncy Billups will give him odds.


43 posted on 10/23/2025 8:32:38 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: usafa92

Don Mattingly?


44 posted on 10/23/2025 8:36:40 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: MinorityRepublican

My wife is Canadian. Baseball isn’t really a thing in most of Canada. Her home village (population 300) in northern Alberta had a curling rink, but no basketball hoops or baseball diamonds.

Canada used to have two baseball teams. The Montreal Expos moved after they couldn’t even get a local TV station to carry the games. Internet only in the era of 56K modems.

Just as all those U.S. teams that win the Stanley Cup has a plurality of Canadians on the rosters, the Blue Jays is comprised mostly of Americans (2/3rds) and only one Canadian (Joey Votto).


45 posted on 10/23/2025 9:05:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

Ooops. Votto retired last year after a long career, batting .143 for the AAA Buffalo Bisons. ZERO Canadians on the Blue Jays.


46 posted on 10/23/2025 9:09:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: iamgalt

Number of Major League Players by Countries
1. USA 1,081. 73.5%
2 Dominican Republic 144 9.8%
3 Venezuela 93 6.3%
4 Cuba 34 2.3%
5 Puerto Rico 27 1.8%
6 Canada 22 1.5%


47 posted on 10/23/2025 9:19:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: mass55th

“Trump’s post came shortly after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute released a statement, saying the Government of Ontario created an ad campaign “using selective audio and video” of Reagan that “misrepresents” a 1987 radio address from the former president.”
Here come the lawyers.
Liberals wherever found are lying sacks of fertilizer. We should invade Canada, kidnap Carney and force him to wait tables in the new & improved WH. That they burned down, btw.


48 posted on 10/23/2025 9:28:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Never bet against a Carney. Their games area all rigged.


49 posted on 10/23/2025 9:37:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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lol - such anachronistic frivolity


50 posted on 10/23/2025 9:44:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: gundog

California for Alberta, Vancouver Island, and all of B.C. except Vancouver and environs. Go big.

Funny. Trump just cut off all trade relations with Canada. Let Carney starve, and euthanize his own people.


51 posted on 10/23/2025 10:16:55 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: lasereye
I tend to root for teams that have never won a championship or haven't won it in a long time.

I can see you're not a Phightin' Phillies fan. Although it may have been 1993, that wound is still unhealed.

52 posted on 10/23/2025 10:17:03 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: tumblindice
"Liberals wherever found are lying sacks of fertilizer. We should invade Canada, kidnap Carney and force him to wait tables in the new & improved WH. That they burned down, btw."

It's too bad that Benedict Arnold failed in his attempt to capture Quebec. That might have been the start of something good, and maybe the dipshit never would have turned traitor.

53 posted on 10/23/2025 10:29:34 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tone deaf.


54 posted on 10/23/2025 10:46:03 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Getready

We could trade Ontario for Greenland.


55 posted on 10/23/2025 10:47:23 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Hopefully President Trump will simply IGNORE this weak minded "attention whore."


56 posted on 10/23/2025 11:01:35 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: mass55th

Agree. I turned totally against Canadian people at the start of the conflict over tariffs and never looked back.


57 posted on 10/23/2025 11:02:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wow, yay Blue Jays.

Who cares.

I quit caring about baseball when the Expos were on track to play the World Series, but because the Blue Jays had won the previous 2 consecutive “World” series, “”Suddenly”” there was a players VS owners’ dispute.

Imagine that, MLB couldn’t stomach an American team NOT winning the “World “ series three years in a row...

And in an interesting turn of events, their being unable to play a championship event KILLED the Expos. Who then became the “Washington” baseball team...

Yeah, go pound sand, “friends”.

Nothing personal, of course.


58 posted on 10/24/2025 12:51:10 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Take it!

Dodgers win, we get Canada, they get Commiefornia.

Blue Jays win, they get Commiefornia.

59 posted on 10/24/2025 12:55:30 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: All

Well there’s a certain amount of hysteria about this, but basically it’s a proposition where we hope our American baseball players beat your American baseball players (plus Godzilla) in a sport almost no Canadians play.

Trust Carney to try to turn it into a big political deal.

I see all the bad blood between our two countries and wish it would all go away, this continent could be a paradise if it were properly governed, and that applies to both countries. I think Trump is on the right track on most things, but he would benefit from better advice about some things perhaps. Carney actually hasn’t been anywhere near as bad as we expected, he is sort of governing like he arrived in a time machine from 1957. But the Liberals probably have not really changed, they are just pretending to be reasonable to hold back the inevitable collapse the next time around.

By the way it was Ontario premier Doug Ford behind the Reagan ad, not Carney. Doug Ford is actually a Trump-like personality who likes to bluster around and make outrageous statements. They would probably hit it off and have a great bro-mance if they met under different circumstances.

I think the final outcome of all this will be a huge surprise to everybody. It will be something nobody can anticipate or imagine. I say that equally for both sides, the dispute is of a world fading away and not reflective of the world to come.


60 posted on 10/24/2025 1:39:16 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Get my helpful new book, "How to Spot a Scam" for the low, low price of $179. Or get two for $450!!)
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