Semi-OT: Grantland burns Toronto sports

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ahh i c, Maybe it's just hard for me to wrap my head around that because I spent most of my life in Toronto so for me the city and the teams are synonymous.

I've lived in Toronto most of my life, but the only teams I like at this point are the Raptors & Blue Jays. Can't stand the overhyping of the Leafs and the sport of hockey and the media representing them. I don't think that just because you live in a city you automatically have to like all the sports teams or root for them. In fact I root against the leafs whenever possible. lol

I'm not a hockey fan either but i couldn't help but feel absolute sorrow when they choked like that. idk.

[Santoki]

ahh i c, Maybe it's just hard for me to wrap my head around that because I spent most of my life in Toronto so for me the city and the teams are synonymous.

I've lived in Toronto most of my life, but the only teams I like at this point are the Raptors & Blue Jays. Can't stand the overhyping of the Leafs and the sport of hockey and the media representing them. I don't think that just because you live in a city you automatically have to like all the sports teams or root for them. In fact I root against the leafs whenever possible. lol

Right, but actively rooting against them is the worst. I'm not a hockey fan either but I want the city and people to have success. The only thing worse are Torontonians who are Sens fans.

[SwaggWagg]

Right, but actively rooting against them is the worst. I'm not a hockey fan either but I want the city and people to have success. The only thing worse are Torontonians who are Sens fans.

The worst?


I think there are far worse things. lol

Sorry, can't stand the team whatsoever. What's worse for me are people rooting for a team just because they live in that city or thumbing their nose at people that don't get in line and lick the leaf's asses.

[BigLeagueChew]

Right, but actively rooting against them is the worst. I'm not a hockey fan either but I want the city and people to have success. The only thing worse are Torontonians who are Sens fans.

Sens > Leafs

[Gibby]

Were on the front page of ESPN now to guys...for all the wrong reasons.

[LLJ]

Right, but actively rooting against them is the worst. I'm not a hockey fan either but I want the city and people to have success. The only thing worse are Torontonians who are Sens fans.

Sens > Leafs

Except whenever they play the Leafs in the playoffs.

[Kohanz]

I think it's a shot at the Jays only. The Raptors and Leafs WISH they had a tradition of mediocrity...

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Did you watch the Leafs last season? They're getting better

1 season does not a tradition make. They've been awful for a whole generation, if not more. The Raptors also made it to the second round once. Doesn't make them even mediocre.

[BigLeagueChew]

Except whenever they play the Leafs in the playoffs.

If only they played the Sens instead of Boston they wouldn't have wasted a 3 goal lead with 10 minutes left.

[SharoneWright]

Game 7 was tough to watch in the last 3 mins. Had trouble sleeping that night lol, kept telling myself "dafuq just happened?"

I slept like a newborn that night. It made my year. lol

Woke up 3 times crying and with crap in your pants?

[kwamebargnani]

Alex Anthopolous really shat the bed on that choice.

No he shat the bed when he decided it was smart to empty the farm for overpaid free agent contracts and a 38-year-old.

[Chevy Chase]

I'm a fan of all three Toronto teams.

That being said, growing up I like the Nordiques (no-one liked the leafs in the 80s). But I came back when Quebec moved to Colorado (how could I cheer for a team that acquired our nemesis - Patrick Roy)

I will say, that up until last year, I had stopped watching Hockey all together. I just got turned off from two lockouts ago and never picked it back up. Way to addicted to Raptors Real-GM.


Oh and the Article in question, is more about how AAs moves this year haven't worked out as planned but that we are probably still buyers because we still have a good shot for next year.