SweepingJay
Last night I, and the rest of Toronto, watched the Jays beat the Texas Rangers in the bottom of the 10th inning, in just about the most dramatic and poetic way […]
Category Archives: Sports
We the north
Last night the Cleveland Cavaliers finally finished off the Toronto Raptors, after the Raps extended them to six games. I’d hoped for a game seven, but the Cavs just put the […]
The second round
The last (and only) time the Toronto Raptors won a playoff series, I wasn’t even writing this blog. And I’ve been writing this blog for almost fifteen years. So. Actually, […]
Chimps Batch Jays Owen
That was a busy-ass week. Fun too. On Tuesday we grabbed some dinner at Wine Bar and then went to see a talk by one of Nellie’s heroes, Jane Goodall. […]
Chrash
Back in October I blogged about the amazing start to the Montreal Canadiens season: eight wins in eight games. That had never happened, even during the dynasty years. Things looked promising. Then […]
What a week-ish
It’s been a busy 8 days, considering I haven’t been traveling or anything. The mother in law visited for about a week. We had a huge dinner at Jacobs & […]
Elemental
I have an emotional hangover. I sportsed too hard last night. Plenty of ink has already been spilled about the Blue Jays game 5 win over Texas to advance to […]
“But he’s not even a very good Prime Minister.” “***WHO CARES HE’S FAMOUS OUTTA THE WAY LITTLE GIRL!!!!!!!!***”
I stared at this a lot last night. I mean, not this particular guy’s sweatpants-covered junk, but rather crowds of people all but standing on top of me. See, Nellie and […]
Rocky Mountain Horseshit
As you might have seen in previous posts, we spent a lot of time at the Air Canada Centre between Christmas and last Monday. We watched about a dozen World Jr games […]
World Junior Gold
We just watched Canada beat Russia to win the World Juniors. It was tense. But buying those tickets a year ago seems very, very worth it now.
