Pardon my patriotism for a moment as I go all Canadian on ya!
Yesterday was the seventeenth anniversary of the Toronto Blue Jays winning their second consecutive World Series, seventeen years since "Touch 'em all Joe, You'll never hit a bigger one..". Seventeen years ago yesterday and what do we have to show since then???? Seventeen years and only five Canadian teams have made it to a championship final, (only 4, all from the NHL if you don't count NLL as a real professional sport). Granted there are not a lot of Canadian teams in major sports our only championship comes from Montreal, which doesn't really count because they don't want to be apart of Canada anyways...plus I hate the Montreal Canadians...
Dear Carey Price....thank you for helping the Canadian Junior team win gold...but it wasn't you it was Johnathan Toews....fuck you Price!
Moving on...one of my biggest beefs is with Canada's largest city. Toronto. Toronto has a team in every major sport other than the NFL and we have, in seventeen years only been able to manage 3 Grey Cups (CFL), 5 Champions Cup (NLL), 0 World Series Titles, 0 Stanley Cups, 0 NBA Championships, 0 MLS Cups. Seventeen years and nothing!!! In seventeen years you would think that the largest city in Canada could produce something.
As a fan of Canadian sport it's difficult year in and year out, season start to season end to watch as our home grown teams get beat out by American teams filled with our home grown talent (mostly in the NHL). It's lucky we have the Olympics every two years and that as a nation we can come together for those two and a half weeks every two years, because for the two long years in between the summer and winter Olympics this nation and it's cities don't give sports fans a lot to cheer about!
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