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It’s (mostly) all Blue Jays on this week’s I’ll Have Another. With Toronto’s favourite baseball team entering the final week of the regular season, the IHA team once again welcomes the Star’s baseball reporter Brendan Kennedy to the pod to give his insight on what comes next for the Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki and company. Will the Jays make the wildcard game? Who pitches if the team does? Does a poor September mean fans should be panicking now? And how far into October will the Blue Jays be playing? Kennedy does his best to answer all these questions and more. Kennedy, co-host Laura Armstrong and producer Paul Watson also touch base with Doug Smith at Raptors media day to talk DeMarre Carroll’s fitness, calling time on Chris Bosh’s career and the odds Las Vegas is giving the Raptors for next season. All that and more — Cameron’s Brewery’s Captain Log Lager, cheering and jeering the World Cup of Hockey — is coming your way.

Is it the beginning of the end for the Blue Jays? It’s not out of the question, according to the I’ll Have Another team. Co-hosts Doug Smith and Laura Armstrong take a closer look at what failure could mean for the future of Toronto’s baseball team, if the Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion don’t start turning around its disappointing September soon. As Blue Jays fans worry, Toronto FC supporters celebrate its second playoff berth in club history. What does it say about a team when it doesn’t get too exciting about clinching a sport in the post-season? Smith and Armstrong have thoughts, of course. Also on this week’s episode? Technical difficulties, Staropramen, ranking Toronto’s teams in terms of importance, picking a new coach for the Canadian men’s soccer team and a tribute to one of the country’s greatest baseball fiction writers.

Do Jays fans have a legitimate reason to panic after dropping last weekend’s series to the Boston Red Sox? Maybe. Is the Jays’ bullpen an even bigger cause for concern? Definitely. Are casual fans watching Toronto FC? Debatable. Should they be? Of course. (According to Armstrong, that is.) And, the question of the month stands: is the World Cup of Hockey a sham? Both Smith and Armstrong think so, but might make up the vocal minority. It’s all on this week’s episode, as is a rare cheer for the Argos, discussing the best celebrations in sports and thoughts on FC Barcelona striker Neymar’s turn as a musician.

Doug Smith is back ― and Zika-free! ― for August’s last episode of I’ll Have Another. Smith rejoins co-host Laura Armstrong and producer Paul Watson to talk Toronto FC’s winning ways and the return of Blue Jays fever. But is now the second best time to be a sports fan in Toronto, as sports historian Bill Humber told Armstrong in a story last week? Smith says no, but even he wasn’t alive in the post World War II era that Humber points to as Toronto’s glory days. Also on this episode: Ace Hill pilsner, cheers for The Beaches and its non-sponsored Olympian parade and jeers to Toronto FC fans that produced an inappropriate, sexist sign during Saturday’s 1-0 loss to Montreal Impact.

The Star’s Chris O’Leary fills in for Doug Smith this week, joining Laura Armstrong to co-host the tenth episode of I’ll Have Another. After talking Toronto Argonauts ― touching on both the franchise’s off-field trials and on-field triumphs ― Armstrong and O’Leary connect with Smith, at a bus stop in Rio, to get an update from the veteran reporter about how the Olympics are treating him so far. Other topics include whether or not Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco’s get the respect he deserves, and more jeers for the IOC.

With co-host Doug Smith on his way to Brazil, Laura Armstrong is joined by the Star’s Sean Fitz-Gerald on the latest I’ll Have Another. Having covering two Olympics himself, Fitz-Gerald gives his take on the much maligned summer games and what it’s like to cover one of the biggest events in the world.And don’t fret: Smith gets his take, too. The veteran reporter chimes in on Toronto FC’s Trillium Cup win, the post-deadline Blue Jays and what the summer league injury to rookie guard Delon Wright could mean for the Raptors.

Drinking Stella Artois while dissecting the European Champion final, Milos Roanic’s Wimbledon loss and whether or not anyone cares about Major League Baseball’s All-Star game. Plus, Smith makes a public apology to Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman in this week’s Cheers and Jeers.

Co-hosts Doug Smith and Laura Armstrong question who will be Toronto’s newest athletes after the NBA and NHL drafts; discuss the shambles that are this summer’s Rio Olympics, before the event has even kicked off; and pay homage to LeBron James for his NBA Finals win with the Cleveland Cavaliers, a victory that earns him a spot on basketball’s Mount Rushmore. Producer Paul Watson even chimes in for his first time on the show, wondering what kind of etiquette is required of professional athletes outside the stadium.

Golf-world darling Brooke Henderson, sports icons Gordie Howe and Muhammad Ali, plus bad behaviour in sports.

On tap for week one? Smith and Armstrong touch on everything from Dwane Casey’s new contract, the beginning of the European Championship, whether or not anyone’s thinking about the Stanley Cup Finals and the fallout from last summer’s Pan Am Games.

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