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OT: MLB Thread

Going to be extremely difficult to come back down 2-0 in this series. Yost is an idiot, so there's always hope, and with the three consecutive games at home it gives the team without home field advantage some help under the 2-3-2 format.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Not sure if that Twitter status is serious. Price had just set a Jays postseason record by retiring 19 consecutive batters and was barely over 10 pitches per inning. Of course you wouldn't take him out at the time.

He looked like he was doing to give a complete game shutout for 90 percent of the afternoon.
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Don't pay attention to Brian Wilde, we don't.
 
What did the Blue Jays ever do to you? You claim that you're supposedly from Toronto, so what gives with the malice? I know plenty of people from the GTA that aren't Leafs fans, but nearly everyone is universally a Jays supporter.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
What did the Blue Jays ever do to you? You claim that you're supposedly from Toronto, so what gives with the malice? I know plenty of people from the GTA that aren't Leafs fans, but nearly everyone is universally a Jays supporter.
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I'm not from Toronto. I'm from Montreal. But thanks to Quebec politics my family moved to Toronto when I was a kid. I spent my formative years crosing my fingers every Saturday night hoping that channel 12 out of Peterborough would be showing the Habs game (or at least that channel 2 out of Buffalo would have a Sabres game on) so I wouldn't be stuck watching the Leafs. Harold Ballard ensured that the Radio-Canada affiliate in Toronto was prohibited from showing the Habs as well. Additionally, I had to go to school with delusional Leafs fans who would try to convince me with a straight face that Darryl Sittler was better than Lafleur or that Mike Palmateer was better than Dryden.

And then in 1977 the Blue Jays came along and all of a sudden I was having a hard time finding Expos games on TV or radio anymore. And, as usual, there was Toronto fan who immediately began strutting around like they had invented the game of baseball.

As soon as I graduated high school I got the hell out of there and never went back, except to visit, and only then because the rest of my immediate family still lives there. One of the main attractions about moving to the West Coast, aside from the weather, was the fact that it's about as far away from Toronto as one can get without emigrating to another country.

So if you think I'm just going to sit here and allow the bandwagon-fan/media fellatio of the Blue Jays to pass without comment, you've got another think coming. My mission in life is to make Toronto sports fans suffer, as I was made to suffer and as the national media is still trying to make me suffer. I give them no quarter, at least here. I stopped visiting the Leafs board because like I said in another post, trying to educate the willfully stupid is a thankless and futile full-time job.

I suppose you could say I've mellowed.

In any case, I don't expect a Toronto fan to be able to relate to any of this because as a Leafs/Jays fan you've always had things your own way. You've never had to pore through an internet discussion thread trying to find a live stream to your team's games because your team is always on and always available to the exclusion of everyone else's preferences. That is what has allowed you to grow up smug and entitled.
 
Why would teams from outside of the local broadcast market be broadcasting other teams? It seems to me that much of the malice that you feel towards Toronto teams stems more from an inability to understand how broadcasting rights are distributed, and less to do with any perceived non-existent persecution that you feel you suffered from "smug and entitled" opposing fans.

It's literally like that in every market in North American when it comes to broadcasting. Why would a Toronto market show Montreal games unless the local team happened to be playing them?

You simply had the misfortune to grow up at a time when the internet and streaming wasn't around. It sucks, but you shouldn't take it out on others because of that. Nowadays you can watch as many Canadiens games as you want.

My mission in life is to make Toronto sports fans suffer, as I was made to suffer and as the national media is still trying to make me suffer. I give them no quarter, at least here.
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So you are literally a cartoon villain? I know there's probably a degree of hyperbole in here somewhere, but this is actually full on psychosis and I mean this in the nicest and most honest way possible when I say that you should really evaluate how seriously you appear to be taking these perceived slights. Rivalries are fun, but this is something else entirely.

And most of the national media detests the Leafs, so I'm really quite puzzled as to where you ever got the notion that they liked them from. They enjoy the revenue dollars that comes with the Leafs being a financial powerhouse, nothing else.
 
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Ne manquez pas #Banquier "Spécial Expos" ce soir avec @snyderjulie à 19h30. Julie et moi on va tweeter en direct de l'hôtel de ville ;) A+
 
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