Only this team would lose two in a row, give up at record tying a home run to Aaron Judge at a very inconvenient time, have the day off and then, randomly, clinch a playoff spot, denying themselves a whoopty whoo on the field, with the fans screaming and yelling and having a party.

These 2022 Blue Jays are something.

I don’t quite know how to articulate how silly this is. I mean, it’s very exciting and I’m happy they made it into the playoffs, but this team is so messy. I’m glad they punched their ticket because missing the playoffs by one game last season was painful. Even with the messiness, this was deserved.

In 2021, so many guys performed to career bests, including two guys, Marcus Semien and Robbie Ray, who are no longer Blue Jays. Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had the best seasons of their young careers, with Vlad finishing as runner-up to MVP.

The Jays had to play home games in Dunedin and Buffalo, in front of crowds of Yankees and Rays fans because the Canadian border was closed to travel— people would’ve certainly made the trek to Buffalo. The challenge of that, combined with the blossoming of some players, made losing out by one game seem like a sucker punch.

It's weird to say, “You underperformed. Now you get a big present,” but baseball is weird.

So maybe it's a playoff berth a year after they really earned it. I’m going to take it any way I can get it.

"Vladdy flat-out needs to run harder," Schneider said postgame, according to Sportsnet. "That's inexcusable. I'll tell him that when I see him later tonight. We're at the point where every little thing matters, every 90 feet matters, (and) it should matter every day of the season.

"He's still young, he'll be fine ... but you've got to leave no margin for error," Schneider added, according to Sportsnet's Ben Nicholson-Smith.

"You gotta just be a little bit more careful if you're Bo," Schneider said. "You see it sometimes, and it's just a weird thing with replay, and you gotta just be a little bit more attentive to what you're doing."

There is no doubt that neither Guerrero or Bichette covered themselves in glory in Tuesday’s game, and I didn’t have an issue with Schneider’s comments, mostly because Schneider knows both of them very well, having managed both in AA. His success with them there is one of the reasons Schneider has this job.

There was, however, an ugliness online and in the media,

Some of the responses to this tweet were just mean. Sid Seixeiro talked about the sins on Breakfast Television, and the Youtube comments on the clip were similar. Even when Aaron Judge’s homer was fumbled by a dude wearing a Bichette jersey, people were tweeting, “Of course!”, as though Bichette routinely fumbles homers at shortstop. FAN 590 also tore into both of them.

Criticism is fine. This was probably the best of the criticism:

Bichette’s play at shortstop can be frustrating; Guerrero’s exhuberance can be an issue.

But there is no need to spend endless words eviscerating anyone, revving up neck beards on the internet. It’s a cheap way to get eyes and ears and it one of the things I really dislike about sports media.