Take me out to the ball game…

by Jack Haskins

The boys of summer are back and I am absolutely pumped! It seems like yesterday when I had to go through the excruciatingly painful experience of watching the Yankees, my least favourite team win the World Series. Thankfully that’s history now as the slate has been wiped clean for the 2010/2011 season.

Being born in Toronto, my favourite MLB team is the Blue Jays. I had the privilege going to the Skydome to watch the high-powered Jays in their dynasty years in the early 90′s. I will never forget Joe Carter’s legendary walk off home run to clinch the World Series. Unfortunately for me and the rest of the Jays’ nation, those days are long behind us.

The Blue Jays’ have the unfortunate displeasure of being stuck in the same division as two of the greatest  baseball franchises of all time; the Yankees, and the Boston Red Sox. Being in the same division as those two powerhouse teams make it nearly impossible for the Blue Jays to even get a sniff of making the playoffs. I could go on and rant about how I think that teams like New York and Boston shouldn’t be able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on building all-star calibre teams, but that’s a rant for another day. The fact of the matter is, I just love watching the sport. I know full well that the chance of the Jays making the post season are about as slim as my chances of becoming a world-class figure skater, but that won’t stop me from watching as much ball as I can this summer.

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