The Toronto Blue Jays’ marketing personnel must have sensed that we need something to look forward to during this frigid winter, so they have revealed to us: things we can get at baseball games in just a few short months.
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There are various quirky collectibles on the team’s special events calendar, published today—bucket hats, bobbleheads (Vladdy bobblehead night is May 25, mark that down) and yes you will be able to eat a hot dog for $1, during every Tuesday home game. In 2025, Blue Jays fans ate 826,308 “Loonie Dogs.” Imagining many hot dogs will be consumed this season will power our daydreams until spring. (George Springer and Dylan Cease will also have bobbleheads made in their honour.)
The marquee swag, however, will be available on April 11: the first 15,000 fans will get to keep an “Addison Barger Couch T-Shirt,” referring to when Barger famously crashed on teammate Davis Schneider‘s pull-out couch at the Toronto Marriott City Centre during the World Series.
For a minute we thought the press release said they were raffling off a T-shirt he actually wore. Would that really be so weird? The couch he slept on was put on display in the hotel lobby, after all. But no, it’s a T-shirt featuring an image of Barger, not a T-shirt worn by Barger. The real thing would probably make a lot of money at an auction, though.
🚨 JUST IN: Albert Pujols drops a carefully worded hint about the Cardinals that leaves fans wondering whether it’s closure, strategy, or the first step toward a return ⚡.pd
The words were few, carefully chosen, and intentionally unfinished. Albert Pujols, speaking with the calm confidence of someone who no longer needs to explain himself, was vague about the idea of a “return to the Cardinals.” No dates. No roles. No guarantees. And yet, the reaction was immediate. Because when Albert Pujols speaks about St. Louis, it is never just talk. It is memory, legacy, and emotion colliding at once.
This was not an announcement. It was not a denial either. It was something in between—a pause that invited interpretation. For some, it felt like a test of maturity, a reminder that not every chapter needs to be reopened. For others, it sounded like a promise waiting to be fulfilled, a door left deliberately unlocked. That tension is what makes the moment so compelling.
