{"id":670965,"date":"2026-04-08T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:30:29","slug":"blue-jays-kevin-gausman-nearly-had-the-funniest-fantasy-football-punishment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670965\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Kevin Gausman nearly had the funniest fantasy football punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy football punishments are always pretty amusing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> had a new one lined up, if it had been allowed to go through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Gausman, the star right-handed pitcher, placed last in Toronto&#8217;s league for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>And the planned punishment? Singing the Canadian national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, singing &#8216;O Canada&#8217; before a Spring Training game.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the rumor going around on social media, and man, that would&#8217;ve been incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Blue Jays management ended up stopping Gausman from carrying out the song.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">just learned kevin gausman came in last in blue jays fantasy football and was gonna sing o canada at a spring training game as his punishment (including the french part) but at the last minute jays management didn\u2019t allow it\ud83d\ude2d we were so robbed<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u064b\u1d57\u1d52 (@tosports13) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tosports13\/status\/2041939149490422052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-outfielder-battled-ostrich-11-plate-spaghetti-eating-contest\/db7ab397cfd963fbafd93a72\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yankees outfielder once battled ostrich in 11-plate spaghetti-eating contest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That definitely is a clip that would&#8217;ve circulated widely among Toronto sports fans and baseball fans in general.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no telling whether Gausman is a quality singer or not, but the world may never know now.<\/p>\n<p>It also begs the question: Did they come up with an alternative punishment? There&#8217;s no way Gausman just got off the hook, is there?<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays should try this again for next year for whoever finishes in last in 2026. Maybe persistence will pay off. The fans would certainly enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fantasy football punishments are always pretty amusing. The Toronto Blue Jays had a new one lined up, if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-670965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371221660907634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}