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I went to my first Jays game of the year yesterday.

Love going to the Rogers Centre, and it was great watching the boys hand Baltimore their butts 6-1.

Awesome seats, great weather, why only 15,000 showed up I have no idea! The team is smacking home runs like crazy during May, and are in the thick of the AL East race.

We even saw a guy successfully propose to his girlfriend on the Jumbotron.

However, the ‘small town boy’ in me shone through. 

During the game I made the mistake of answering ‘Yes’, to the guy in the red shirt asking the question, ‘Who wants cold beer?’

I sometimes forget that I’m in Toronto, and it’s my responsibilty to pay for Vernon Wells’ big contract. So I really shouldn’t have been suprised when I handed him a $10 bill and was told it wasn’t enough!

Beer cost $10.25!!!!!

Do the math, 3 beer will cost you $30.75!!!

24 bottles of Lakeport at the Beer Store will run you $28.50!

I’m not complaining, nobody is forcing anyone at the Rogers Centre to purchase a beer, nor is anybody making me drink one.

But if any young ladies out there are looking to marry for money, look for a drunk guy at the next Blue Jays game!

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I’ll be the first to admit that I have done some foolish things in my lifetime while under the influence of alcohol. However, not once during my search for fun and frivolity did I think beating an animal to death qualified as ‘good times’!

The adult female swan named Angela was found floating in Stratford’s Avon River this morning, and it by no means due to natural causes.

“It was an act of vandalism,” said Quin Mallot, the city’s manager of forestry and parks for the past 10 years. “If it’s an animal there are feathers and remnants of eggs and things like that. Animals just aren’t that tidy.”

In addition to the death of the swan, seven eggs from the nest were missing.  What makes them think it was humans who were responsibile?  There were some beer bottles by the nest and there were some mailboxes tipped over further up the street. Plus some people on William St. reported hearing a commotion around where the nest is sometime after the bars closed.

Seriously, what kind of sick mind is at work here? What’s next for this group, bullying elementary school children.

As it stands, there’s a lone male swan wondering where its mate is, and somebody is joking about how cool it was to stomp a swan to death.

Funny, I don’t hear anybody laughing.

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Hey, remember this face?

Yeah, Lisa Whechel who played Blair on ‘The Facts Of Life’.

Now that I’m up earlier in the day, I get to catch some of those retro shows on Deja View, & TV Land, and I got to wondering what ever happened to these stars of the 80′s.

Thanks to google, I found that Lisa went from being Blair to a Christian Rock singer (really) to having her own website and let me tell you, she’s NOTHING like the spoiled brat she played on TV.

http://www.lisawhelchel.com/

Before you read further, know this!

I am NOT a Montreal Canadians fan.

But even the Leaf fan in me feels bad that some are being painted with same brush as those punks in the picture above.

That idiot in the picture is NOT a hockey fan, but rather one of the lowlifes of the world that simply took advantage of what should’ve been a celebratory atmosphere.

The Habs beat the Penguins in game 7, considered by many as the most stunning playoff wins in the team’s 100-year history, and tens of thousands of jubilant fans spilling into the downtown core Wednesday night in an ocean of red, white and blue.

Hours later the alcohol-fuelled remnants of that crowd began taunting Montreal police, tossing bottles at them and their horses. Then some covered their faces, smashed store windows and started looting.

Police regained control of the downtown early this morning by charging into the mob, discharging tear gas and jabbing their batons into the ribs of any stragglers. At least 25 people were arrested. Two officers suffered minor injuries.

The scene started out nicely when a little girl hoisted a makeshift Stanley Cup from atop her father’s shoulders to the cheers of onlookers.

By around midnight, store windows were being smashed.

Looters concealed their faces — in some cases with the garments they’d already stolen, not bothering to pluck away the price tags fluttering from their faces.

With their identities hidden they leaped through the broken storefront windows and emerged moments later with their arms full.

Police said hockey fans don’t deserve the blame for any of the looting or vandalism after major Habs wins in recent years.

The looters are nowhere near the level of class of the hockey fans.

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OK, I never knew this!

Folks are fighting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with….HAIR!

Hair, it turns out, is a natural absorber — and that’s exactly what’s needed to soak up the thick oil spewing from the blown-out well off Louisiana.

George Barber & Beauty Supplies, a Kitchener-based salon supplier, is trying to get its customers to donate hundreds of pounds of human hair as part of the massive clean up effort in the gulf.

The hair is stuffed into nylons or woven into mats. The nylons are tied into giant, hairy sausage links, which are then placed on beaches to soak up any oil that washes ashore. Some 204,000 kilograms of hair are pouring in each day.

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Just thought you should know;

Angus T. Jones, who plays Jake in the sitcom ‘Two & A Half Men’, is 16 years old and is the richest kid on TV.

This teen makes $250,000……AN EPISODE!!!!!

As a Jays fan, I’m ticked, and it has NOTHING to do with their loss to the Boston Red Sox last night.

Any chance of seeing the former Toronto Cy Young winner Roy Halladay pitch at the Rogers Centre this summer, ended yesterday, with the announcement that the Jays’ three-game inter-league series against the Phillies was being moved to Philadelphia.

Why?

Finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 countries plus the European Union are converging on Toronto that same weekend, holding their two-day G20 conference at the Metro Convention Centre — across from the Jays ball-park.

With pretty much the entire area in lockdown from June 25 to 27, Jays CEO Paul Beeston had to move the series.

Who gives a flying monkey butt about these pampered politicians flying in from places we may never see, to talk about money we’ll never make?

Why Toronto?

Maybe Thunder Bay could use the exposure more?

I for one, would much rather welcome back Roy Halladay than some pompous overpaid banker from Slovakia.

While I wish every visitor to Canada enjoys their stay, I hope these G20 folks get served some bad shrimp!

Go Jays!

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OK, let’s give this kid the benefit of the doubt, does Justin Bieber understand what the interviewer is saying?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4&feature=player_embedded

More time reading a book, less time causing riots in shopping malls.

I’m just saying!

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Can’t find those 3-D glasses that came with your Hannah Montana movie!

Talk to your Dad!

The magazine’s June edition of Playboy hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses.

That’s right, the toy that has kids dodging dragons, meatballs and tall blue aliens at the movies will help adults focus on what is, at first glance, a very blurry Playmate of the Year.

“What would people most like to see in 3-D?” asked Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. “Probably a naked lady.”

Hefner makes no secret of hoping to capitalize on the popularity of 3-D movies such as “Avatar” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” even as he makes no secret of not quite getting what all the fuss is about.

“I’m not a huge enthusiast of 3-D,” he said in a telephone interview. “I leave real life to go to the movies and 2-D is fine with me.”

That’s nice Hef, where are those glasses?

Wow, I REALLY don’t like the Montreal Canadians!

I mean, I have nothing against the players, office staff, or the building they play in.

I can admit to respecting the legacy the have built as 24 time Stanley Cup Champions!

Heck, some of my best friends are fans of the team.

But as a ‘spirit’, I can’t stand them!

The ruined our glory years during the Sittler-McDonald-Palmateer era.

I actually cheered for Russia when they played the Habs back in the 70′s.

They won a Cup when they shouldn’t have in the 80′s.

I don’t get it!

As much as I love my Leafs, I despise the Canadians.

If, as a Leaf fan, I should ‘hate’ a team, shouldn’t it be the LA Kings?

They were, after all the team that stopped us from advancing to the Stanley Cup Final (with a little help from Kerry Fraser), and what could’ve been a Cup win over those Habs?

How about the Vancouver Canucks who did the same to us in 94?

The Hurricanes too!

And of course, the Ottawa Senators who we dislike, but not nearly as much as they hate us. We DID cause them some playoff misery in the past.

Nope, I believe that any true Leafs fan, there’s an anti-Habs chromosone attached to our DNA. The Montreal Canadians could save the world, and I would probably still boo them when they hit the ice!

Pens in 6….I mean 7

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Why do people waste their money to go under the knife?

You get old, you can’t stop it and sometimes when you try, the outcome is worst than the original.

Musician Iggy Pop and designer Donatella Versace topped The Good Surgeon Guide’s survey of worst faces, the Telegraph UK reports. Of the 1,300 people polled,39 percent admitted that they had more respect for good looking celebs than successful ones.

Here’s the top 3 from the ”worst face” list:

1. Iggy Pop – Beef jerky with eyes!

 2. Jodie Marsh – More plastic than my wife’s tupperware collection, check out the before and after;

3. Donatella Versace – Living example of what happens when you pound a blob of clay enough.

Others who made the list were Cher, Iron Man 2 star Mickey Rourke, former supermodel Janice Dickinson, and Melanie Griffith also made the top ten.

Want to know what’s sad?

Without the plastic surgery, some of these people could’ve made a number of Most Beautiful lists!

A spokesperson for The Good Surgeon Guide says, “It is sad to think that some people value appearance more so than talents and achievements.”  

Amen to that!

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Good news?  Our fine city got mentioned on the Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday!

The bad news? Well, see for yourself;

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzE_AVMRzmOk&h=5b28e

We’re back!

After a week of adjusting to a new work schedule, I’m now entering the world of early morning blogging!

I’ve done morning shows before, and I’m no stranger to getting up at 3AM.

Of course, I never said I was good at getting up before the sun rises.

One morning I got up, got cleaned up and reached into the closet for a shirt. Of course I did this in the dark because I didn’t want to wake up my wife and newborn daughter. And, yes I know, a wiser man would’ve laid out his clothes the night before, but remember who you’re dealing with here!

Got dressed, grabbed a coffee, drove to work.

Did the show, conversed with the news staff, walked throughout the office, attended a meeting, and went out of my to say ‘Good Morning’ to everyone.

I got home at around 1 in the afternoon, and loved it when my oldest daughter would run up to me and scream ‘Daddy’ while her baby sister bounced in her bouncing whatcha-ma-call-it.

As I swung my little girl in my arms, my wife asked me something that made me think of everyone I saw and spoke to that day.

She looked at my with a confused look and asked, ‘Why are you wearing my shirt?’

Lesson learned, never get dressed in the dark!

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Meet Dallas Braden.

He pitches for the Oakland A’s, with a career 18-23 record, and he took the mound during yesterday’s game against the Tampa Rays.

It had to be a tough time for the 26 year old because yesterday was Mother’s Day.

You see, Dallas was raised by his grandmother after his mother, Jodie Atwood, died of cancer when he was a high school senior.

With all this celebration of Mothers, and knowing he couldn’t call his on this day had to make it tough as he threw his first pitch of the game to what some call, the best team in the league.

He got the first batter out, and the second, as well as the third.

As a matter of fact he got the next 24 batters out and threw Major League Baseball’s 19th perfect game.

How can you NOT believe that your loved ones aren’t ‘watching you’.

Thanks Mom!
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Pretty sick and tired of these stories. 

An accused street racer stopped early Monday after Toronto Police said he was clocked at almost double the speed limit was left foot-loose and facing charges without his BMW.

Sgt. Tim Burrows said a patrol officer spotted two cars racing on a highway in Toronto at 2:05 a.m., with other cars on the freeway.

The officer gave chase, clocking the Beemer at 189 km/h and his rival driver in a Mercedes-Benz, which got away after accelerating to 224 km/h.

The speed limit on the freeway is posted at 100 km/h and “there was some traffic at the time,” Burrows said.

Burrows said the officer’s video system was operating at the time and investigators will review images of the Mercedes license plate to “follow up” with that driver.

The relationship between the two drivers was not immediately known

After his arrest, the BMW driver was charged with stunt driving – defined as speeding at more than 50 km/h over the posted limit – plus speeding at 189 km/h.

His car was impounded for a week.

A week!?!?!

Are you kidding me?

This moron is sitting back relaxing knowing he’ll get his ride back in a WEEK!?!?!

The driver also faces the loss of six points on his license, plus at fine of about $6 per illegal kilometre.

WHich, if you do the math, is more than enough to allow him back on the street where next time somebody will be killed.

Donate the car to charity, and take his license for a year.

Got up early this morning, real early. We’re talking 6AM!

Why?

It was picture day for my daughters and my wife wanted them to get showers so she could do their hair for them!

Definitely NOT a Daddy chore, or at least one that this Daddy doesn’t do well!

My job is to get them up, which I am pretty good at since I have the uncanny power to irritate even the most patient!

I still think it would’ve been easier to take them in the backyard and hose them down, but Mother knows best.

Dresses were ironed the night before, and hanging in the closet.

Mom got up, and started the process of getting their hair ‘just right’! With boys, a simple combthrough and away you go, but with my girls? Braids, barrettes, & curls all done to their exact liking!

It was their Mother’s idea to leave at the absolute last minute so the girls wouldn’t get their dresses dirty playing in the school yard, and who wants to pay $79.95 for pictures of a kid in a dirty dress?

We arrive at school just as the bell was about to ring just as our good friend Lynn came over after noticing the girls in their nice, pretty little dresses!

With a smile on her face, she tells me, ‘You know picture day is tomorrow right?’

‘SIGH’

I hate Mondays! 

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Remember Chely Wright?

She charted some tunes 1999-2005, including ‘Single White Female’, ‘Jezabel’, ‘& ‘Shut Up & Drive’, and there was even talk way back when that she and Brad Paisley had something going on.

Well, we can put those rumours to rest.

After hiding her sexuality for the sake of her music career for years, Chelytells People magazine, “Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out.”

Chely told People she was the first country music artist to come out, (Hello? Didn’t k.d. lang, who got her start as a country artist, came out in an interview in the early ’90s?)

Still, Wright is the latest entertainer to make her homosexuality public after years of fearing that doing so would hurt her career.

Gay or not, I’m one guy who still believes she’s one of the hottest women in COuntry Music!!!!

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Ready to get insanely mad?

While you and I have been paying our taxes, and paying off our last power bill, child-killer Clifford Olson – who has been in prison for almost 50 years – been collecting in pension each month?

How much?

$1100 a month!

I know people that don’t make that much, and where exactly is he spending it? Where is he saving it?

Let the guy starve to death and give the money to the families he’s destroyed.

Luckily, the Harper government plans to introduce legislation as early as this spring that would stop serial killer Clifford Olson and other senior citizens from receiving old-age security cheques while they are in prison.

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said Canadians have sent a clear message that they are against notorious killers like Olson receiving any federal money.

“They should be getting punishment, not pensions,” Ms. Finley told reporters Monday after receiving a 46,000-strong petition calling on the government to stop sending Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement cheques to prison addresses.

Amen!