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The Toronto Maple Leafs have really backed themselves into a corner in their search for a new hockey honcho.  MLSE poobah Richard Peddie is on record stating that they are searching for the hockey equivalent of basketball’s Bryan Colangelo–not realizing how fortunate they were in getting the original.  Colangelo was looking for an escape route out of Phoenix.   Such blatant […]

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It was certainly interesting to hear an obviously disappointed Bryan Colangelo talk about the changes needed to ensure that the losing ends now for his Raptor club and that the winning begins next season.  In his post season press conference Bryan essentially told us that TJ will be moved to fill obvious holes, and he essentially told us that […]

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Now, anyone who ever writes about major league sports will always stay away from blaming the officials for a loss.  It looks childish, sounds whiny, and is usually wrong.  And I am not about to point my finger at the officials for game four and accuse them of costing Toronto the game.  The Raptors lost […]

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We are solidly into this season’s version of the Blue Jay game of hope.  Hopefully everyone can stay healthy, and hopefully everyone can produce at their normal levels, and hopefully a couple of the young guys will come up and contribute, and hopefully the Yankees and the Red Sox will have down years and come back […]

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You would  think after a regular season that saw them consistently put out mediocre first quarter efforts that the Raptors would begin the playoffs with the proper amount of intensity and fortitude.  But a leopard doesn’t change its spots just because the season changes.  A first quarter of abysmal defense caused by lacklustre effort and, to put […]

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It hasn’t taken much of the season for us to recognize that there is a whole lot of “Same old, same old” going on down at the ballyard.  It hasn’t taken long for this year’s Jays to look as if they’ll play the same mediocre baseball that last year’s Jays did.  And it hasn’t taken long […]

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I don’t need to expound on the importance of Jackie Robinson to the game of baseball.  Anybody who has any knowledge of the history of the game knows about Jackie and what he represented.  As such this week baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day.  There they were–ballplayers on every team showing respect for the legend by wearing […]

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So, Jose Canseco showed up in Toronto to continue the promotional tour for his self-serving stream of unconsciousness he calls a book. While Canseco certainly looked good when most of his initial tattling turned out to be true, there is no reason to think that he didn’t exhaust all of his information in book one […]

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With their confidence at its lowest level and their best game stuck way back in its last game in Boston the Raptors are about to put the seal on a season that can most assuredly be qualified as a year of regression. This was a club that had the talent to take the next step […]

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Predictions are the order of business as the baseball season begins.   In the fan 590’s baseball blog–the one written by my compatriot Mike Wilner (even though I have not only never met him I have never spoken to him and we wouldn’t be able to pick each other out of a very small parcel of people even […]

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