Kids say the funniest things!

Actual events in the urban daddy household today;

Our 15 month old daughter getting ready for bed – the transfer from her cloth diaper into her night-time disposable diaper – when she decided instead to sit up, and try to put the diaper on the stuffed bear she was carrying.

She tried to put it under the bear – the bear was not centred, and she could not get it centred.

She tried again but this time to put the diaper on top of the bear.

She tried a third time, happily trying to put that diaper on the bear – all the time saying “Bear” and “da-paa”.

Then she looked at me… Smiled…  Pick up the bear by it’s feet, and then proceeded to slam it on the bed from over her head on to it’s back.

Then she said, “Power Bomb!”

Nice!!!

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6-year-old to 4-year-old, “I bet I can make you say why?”

4-year-old to 6-year-old, “How?”

6-year-old :Oh.”

6=year-old to 4-year-old, “Bet I can make you say how”

4-year-old to 6-year-old, “… How?”

6-year-old, “Ah ha!  See I made you say it!”

4-year-old to 6-year-old, “Bet I can make you say cabbage”

6-year-old looks at me, I look at him… both of us puzzled.

“Cabbage?!?” the 6-year-old says.

“See” says the 4-year-old as he smirks and walks out of the room.

Very far left-leaning Toronto street rag/mag Eye Weekly coins Toronto’s new moniker to be “El Toro”

My immediate response was WTF! You see what happens when you lock a bunch of lefties in a room and ask them to come up with a story that does not bash right-wing conservatism… Crap.

They come up with a new nickname for Toronto that, quite frankly, is bull.

El Toro?!?

Why? How?

Read the article in the Toronto Star;

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/943958–eye-weekly-readers-give-toronto-a-new-nickname

I’ll guess they chose this topic to try to make Eye Weekly relevent again. I swore I would never publish their name again after reading all their anti-conservative garbage around election time. It made me sick. Them and NOW Magazine, Toronto’s other free weekly think it is okay to waste newsprint in order to spread their socialism. I feel like they are trying to convert me or send me to the cross every time I (used to) pick up the magazines. I’m thinking this article came about because they had no other news to publish. No Rob Ford fat jokes to make, no Stephen Harper is the devil exclusives, no socialism is the best and conservatism = Marxism…

Geez.

El Toro?

So I am going to use this garbage that I wouldn’t line my birdcage with as a seguey into a Thursday Thirteen post, on 13 better nicknames for Toronto than El Toro Poo Poo.

Here is the list;

13. Hogtown
12. T-Dot
11. The Queen City
10. T.O.
9. The Big Smoke
8. The 4-1-6
7. Trauma
6. T-dot. O-Dot.
5. Toronto the Good
4. Ta-raw-na
3. The MegaCity
2. Hollywood North
1. The Centre of the Universe!

Let’s stick with these ones as the Eye / Star choice smells like bullsh%t.

I mean even the Star’s own Editor-in-Chief Michael Cooke, who was a judge in this “contest” was quoted as saying about the El Toro nickname: “It’s meaningless, but it’s funny.”

Ha ha ha… who’s laughing now?

El Toro!?!

Shame on you!

Happy 40th Birthday to me! Time for a mental, physical and procedural tune-up.

Ever have one of those days? One of those months or even one of those years?

Well I’m having all of those.

Today is my 40th birthday and while I am no where near having a mid-life crisis, I have been spending a lot of time reflecting on the kind of person I have become and whether or not I like it.

For the most part, I do like where I am now, but there are some issues – some pretty big issues – which have been issues from as long as I can remember and I don’t see any way they are going to go away unless I focus on fixing them myself… Starting now!

I have even considered professional help (again) to get over the hump.  I sought professional help about 4 years ago to help me figure out why I was resistant to change. I was in a job I hated and I had people telling me to suck it up and stay because I’d fail in the private sector, and I had my support system encouraging me but doubting me nonetheless. I knew I needed to change… For me, and I had to figure out what was holding me back. Fear of the unknown was not a good enough reason to dread doing what you are doing on a daily basis. Once that played out I was ready to embrace change – however – I was now in possession of anger issues. I swear. I think it was just me being pissed off at the quack that the EAP program had hooked up for me.  He pissed me off each and every time we met.  I wanted to talk about moving life, especially my career, forward, and he just wanted to sit back and smirk at me, adding very little to the conversation.

With all that being said, I highly recommend sitting with a professional to discuss your feelings, your fears and your quirks. You don’t have to do what they recommend, but a good mental health tune-up should be mandatory for everyone every couple of years.

Anyways…

I’ve always had weight / body image issues. I’m over-weight. I know that, but not horribly out of shape. I go to the gym (in spurts), I stay active (in spurts), but I’ve got 30 pounds of stay-at-home-dad around my waist from child #1 and I always seem to be either too tired or hurt to get rid of it.  I know I should not be eating at night, but I do and I feel like shit after. I know I should cut back on stuff I put in my mouth, but I don’t do that, and instead, when I have to inhale to put on my dress pants (I must be quite the site for sore eyes) but my commitment to losing that weight comes and goes. Tonight I’ll drink lots of water and get a good nights’ sleep, tomorrow I’ll be up until 2am working and eat a small bowl of cereal at 1:30 because I’m hungry… or bored… I can’t put my finger on it.  I’m inconsistent.

Sleep is another matter on its own. I should be getting to bed by 11pm at the latest, but once the kids are in bed it’s usually 8pm and after a long day I’m tired and it takes me forever dragging my ass around the house to do my chores. Next thing I know it’s 2am and I’m still hanging laundry / washing dishes, or playing CityVille on Facebook. During the tax season especially, I can log into the office every night and weekend day from December and I can fall asleep with my laptop on my lap within a second and sleep for 45 minutes to an hour, but instead of waking up refreshed, I wake up groggy and tired. It’s brutal.

I’m not even going to get into detail about the way I feel I treat my kids… inconsistent comes up again. I’m getting better at this part, and have really improved on some areas, like always getting down to their level when they are hurt, letting them sort out their issues instead of doing it for them (thank you Urban Mummy via Alyson Schaefer) but still sometimes when I don’t have the patience I should, I sshhhh them and grab them by their clothes to move them from an area where their ear-piercing screams can break glasses. Let’s just say it doesn’t look so good to others, and it’s not fair to the kids. I think every parent wants to treat their kids better than they feel their parents treated them and I’m in the same boat.  I know what to do and how to handle them, but in the moment those “anger issues” must be popping up and I get all grabby.  It’s like my patience runs out and I go back to what works easiest for me… being a brute. I feel terrible and I want my kids to respect me the way I respect them, not fear me – unless I want them to fear me

I have to stop taking the easy way out. I know better, but sometimes being that father of three kids who is overwhelmed and tired I don’t think. I know a mop is wet and a broom is dry, but I always ask the kids for the mop and glare at them when they correct me. I also fuck up mittens and gloves. They’re all gloves to me and I don’t know why. It’s when I speak without thinking that I have to do away with. It’s a BAD habit and as my kids get older and correct me more and more, it makes me realize that taking a couple extra seconds to think about what I am going to say is what I want my kids to do too.

  My eating issues are also messed up. I’m an emotional eater. I have zero resistance when there is a treat in the house – I will eat an entire solid chocolate easter bunny because then it’s finished I won’t have the temptation there to want to snack on it at all hours of the day and night. I’ll eat the whole thing, feel guilty, then eat better for a couple weeks - using that episode as my motivation. Warped, eh? It’s borderline compulsive.

I could also use to be more organized.  That’s a big problem too… If I were more organized I’d  have arranged more date nights, more outings with my friends and maybe even fit in some time for sports… But I’m not that consistent.  I find a toll that helps me get organized – reminders in Outlook, a personal calendar, an online calendar, a notebook – but that lasts for only a couple of days, then I’m using something else.

Is it wrong for me to feel that my age finally caught up to my hairline and stomach size? For someone in my 30′s I was in rough shape. For a 40 year-old, I’m doing just fine.
Here’s hoping 40 is the year that things change for the better.

I get a lot of email spam for Viagra, so why the phone spam too?

Rock hard erection.
Increased sex drive.
Increase blood flow.
Multiple orgasms.
No side effects.

Now that I have your attention, you probably recognize all these words in the numerous email spam messages we all get.  But can you believe that this is what I got when I picked up my cell phone this afternoon… by a live human.

I did not order it.

I have not enquired about this.

These type of calls have been coming to my cell phone for a while now – about a year.  I get these phone calls from a phone number that would show up on my call display as being “002″, or “007″ or some other 3 digit combination.  When I would answer they would ask for someone else… and hang up while I’m telling them this is my phone and no longer belonging to someone else. But did they take the hint, heck no! They would keep calling and calling… So frustrating. I would tell them the person was busy, or no longer there, and I would ask them not to call anymore, but none of that worked.

To be honest, since these pricks (pun intended) have been calling me for so long, and even though I have asked politely to be removed from their list, and I’ve flipped out on them (but each time they hang up on me, wait a few days then call again) I felt I needed a different approach.

Since they’re not looking for me. They won’t remove the number… They are driving me crazy…

… That is until today.

Today my cell phone rang.  I was at the office having just finished a few meetings and was exiting the boardroom.  I looked at the number and thought today was the day I get to the bottom of this. 

I walked to a quiet spot and answered the phone.  On the other end of the phone was a man with a heavy Indian accent.  When he asked for, I assumed, the previous phone owner, I said that it was me… So he continued. 

He began by asking me if I found that I had any side effects from the Cialis / Viagra I had purchased, so I said “yes”.

He asked me if I was suffering from headaches, back aches, blurred vision and any thing else. I said headaches, but the rest depended on how good I was.

He continued and asked me if I found it too expensive. I said, fuck yeah!

He said I might want to sit down because he had a one day offer for me… instead of $3.00 or $4.00 per pill for some generic drug, I can get the real deal for only $1.00 each. So was I ready to buy 120 pills for $120.00. No side effects… 6 hour erection… Increased blood flow to my penis.

“Why would I want a 6-hour erection?” I asked.

He started to explain to me that these new pills had no side effects and therefore I should want to be “rock hard” for as long as I needed to “please my woman”.

How could I argue… “Sure”, I said.

So he continued. “Can I verify your address, please.”

“What do you have on the system” I queried.

He then proceeded to read out an address, complete with email address and credit card info.

LOL.

He then asked me if I wanted to order the 120 pills, and they would email me the invoice.

I hesitated. I really wanted to put an end to this, but I didn’t want the poor fellow who all this info belonged to to have to hassle with them to get his money back. On the other hand, maybe this was a great deal and he’d thank me!

But I said no, I did not want to order right now.

So the salesman on the phone put the full court press sales pressure on me.

“The pills can be stored for up to 2 years in the refrigerator!” he said.

“No, that won’t work”, I replied. “I have no woman right now and I’m REALLY ugly so I have no chances of getting one in the next 2 years”.

“Oh”, he said. Probably realizing he’s getting played.

“Well if you change your mind, don’t go to the website and look at the prices. Look at the product and call me directly for the prices. I’ll give you a way better deal.”

“Awesome”, I said. “What is your name?”

“Jeff Hardy”, he said… “Like the wrestler”.

“Jeff Hardy??? Really?” I said. “Come on… Give me your real name.”

“Just ask for Jeff Hardy”. he responded, somewhat pissed off.

Then I asked for and received his website.

And in closing I asked him to no longer call me on this number because was giving up the phone and I would not want the next person getting the cell number to know I used Viagra… It’s “personal” you know.

He understood.

I expect no further calls.

What would YOU have done? Placed the order or not?

How to Confront a Back-Stabber. This is going to come in handy one day soon!

I saw this post about how to confront a back-stabber and all these warm fuzzy thoughts came back to my head about being stabbed in the back by a former colleague.  I hoped this article would give me all kinds of ways in which I could get even should the situation arise.  

So I read the article and none of recommendations mesh with what I had thought about doing to her should our paths cross again.  Well, that and besides being too lazy to seek her out, I hate confrontation.

I wondered how I would approach this person should I ever see them again, but with the approach this article takes – talking to the back-stabber in a non-threatening environment, knowing they take this approach because they are insecure and that possibly they do this to protect a friend – it takes the emotion out of the confrontation and provides a safe environment to let that person know you are on to their deceptive ways.

Here is the story;

In my previous employment I applied for many management positions but never was picked up. None of it made sense since I had recently completed my MBA and besides being senior there, I really liked dealing with people and it would have been a fun challenge managing unionized staff. I would have welcomed the challenge / frustration and I was ready.

There was one position in particular which I really set my sites on – it was in a different office and I met all the criteria. It would have been ideal for me.  New challenge, new people, a fresh start in an office where no one is judging me on anything but my work.

I applied and was contacted right away by their HR area telling me I was the best candidate so far and that all I needed was 3 references.

I chose them.

One of them happened to be a team leader that I had for only 6 weeks, but knew back when she first started there and I watched as she had kids and came back as a team leader.

For the 3 months before her arrival, I ran the team informally – handled all escalations, staffing matters, set up the goals and objectives for the team and laid them out at team meetings. When she arrived, I gave her all the information and took a step back.

She sought out my opinion and asked me to continue helping out with the day-to-day operations. I did.

Then after 6 weeks, she left to accept another position (without telling the team) and her boss assigned the team to a different team leader who asked me to continue to run it for her.

Sounds okay, right.

Here is where it gets wacky.

Since it takes ages for government processes to run their course, 5 or 6 months had passed when I was approached out of no where by a colleague about a rumour that she had heard that I was not going to get this position because this outgoing TL had told the hiring board that I was a terrible leader.

How this colleague even knew I had applied was a shock to me, and I suspected at the time that what had happened was that the board called this TL, but she had already spoken to her friend who is best friends with a girl who sits near me who I really never spoke to and in a very childish matter decided to tell these lies to the hiring board.  Silly as it seems (and those of you never having worked in government you may think this is all crap, but it is SO true and happens all the time). 

Sure enough, I was not hired for this position.

When I called HR, they said a better candidate was found.

Bullshit, I called.

So when I left that job, I asked HR for access to all my records and in doing so I was given a copy of the written reference that this TL provided to the board.

It was all lies.

In the area that asked if I had ever led a team formally or informally, she said “no”.

In the area where it asked if I had any experience with goals or objectives, she said “no”.

Under the last area asking if I was good with people and would – in her opinion – be able to lead a team, she said, “no”.

And as such, due to her treating this matter like it was a big high-school joke – I was denied this position.

I wanted to confront her, now 2 years after the fact. I still do.  But not because I still hold a grudge or have a hard-on for these folks but because with the casualness this woman lied to the hiring board, she can and probably will do the same to others.  I wonder how she would feel if that happened to her, or her kids?

But what would I say? I’m an emotional guy and this really pissed me off once I saw the written reference was all lies.

Now I know.

http://www.wikihow.com/Confront-a-Backstabber

I’ll update this post if I do.

Who are we to judge what is an ass-backwards society?

Who are we to judge what is an ass-backwards society, or to make a statement about certain politicians in some countries thinking it is okay to “rule” for 30 years and live like a King while the people are starving.

I am not in a position to make that determination, however the stories below tell a completely different tale.

Instead of pointing out the obvious, let the stories below tell the whole story and give us an opportunity to be thankful to live in democracies, like Canada (and the US).

Story 1 comes to us from Tehran, Iran. An Iranian man who attracted several disciples after claiming to be God was hanged for apostasy in the southwest of the country last week.

Turns out in Iran, apostasy, murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran’s sharia law, in practice since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution.

The western-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a report earlier this month which calculated that Iran had executed an average of one person every eight hours since the start of the year – see that stat – one person every 8 hours. Scary.

Rights groups say Iran is second only to China in the number of executions it carries out, and puts more people to death than any other country per head of population. Iran routinely dismisses Western criticism of its justice system, saying it is implementing Islamic law.

Who said being a Dick, err, Dictator was bad. Although it would seem to me that the leaders in Iran are guilty of exactly what they are murdering their people over.

Story 2 – North Korea is about as unstable a nation as there is. If their dear leader, the amazing Kim Jong-il, was in Iran they would ahve hung him already.

Il, in his autobiagraphy, makes the following claims according to the UK Telegraph;

* Even before his birth, the future leader of North Korea was triggering miracles. Official biographers say his birth in a cabin on the slopes of Baekdu Mountain in February 1942 was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a double rainbow. When he was born, a new star appeared in the night sky.

* The first time he picked up a golf club, in 1994, Kim reportedly shot a 38-under par round on North Korea’s only golf course, including 11 holes-in-one. He then decided to retire from the sport for ever.

* Kim has the ability to alter the weather simply through the power of thought.

* The fledgling leader was a genius as an infant, with official North Korean biographies stating that he had learned to walk at just 3 weeks and was talking at 8 weeks.

* As a junior high school pupil in Pyongyang, he corrected and chastised his teachers for their incorrect interpretations of history.

* Kim wrote six full operas in two years, “all of which are better than any in the history of music,” according to his official biography.

* He designed the Tower of the Juche Idea, a 170-metre tower in the east bank of the River Taedong in central Pyongyang that is topped by a glowing red flame.

* Kim’s official biography also claims that he wrote 1,500 books during his time at Kim Sung Il University, from where he graduated in 1964.

* According to the Korea Central News Agency, Kim is an expert on all aspects of the film industry and “improved the scripts and guided the production” of the movie “Diary of a Girl Student.” His favourite movies are reportedly “Friday the 13th,” “Rambo” and anything starring Elizabeth Taylor.

* Kim reportedly employs a servant to inspect every grain of rice that is served to him. Any with the most minor of flaws is discarded.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8292848/The-Incredible-Kim-Jong-il-and-his-Amazing-Achievements.html

Does anyone really believe this?

And the 3rd story – surrounds the recent protests in countries like Tunesia, Egypt and Iran. While the world watches, not quite sure what to make of it, Iranian politicians have called for opposition leaders to be handed the death penalty following the protests, accusing them of fomenting unrest.

“Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi are corrupts on earth and should be tried,” politicians were quoted as saying by the official Irna news agency.

The term “corrupt on earth”, a charge which has been leveled at political dissidents in the past, carries the death penalty in the Islamic republic.

I think a country is ass backwards when you can be put to death by the state for speaking your mind.

I’m all for capital punishment in cases where there is clear evidence that if released a person is a danger to society, or if there has been serious harm done – ie/ killing people, but by speaking out about a corrupt government… Idiots… All of them.

But hey, what do I know?

Is that a double rainbow I see?

Listen to Sportsnet Radio, the FAN590, tomorrow morning and there will be NO Andrew Krystal

I for one am going to tune in tomorrow morning to Sportsnet Radio, the FAN590 (whew, what a mouthful) to listen to the new (temporary) morning show host, Greg Brady.  Officially the Andrew Krystal in the morning experiment has come to an end, and as a LONG-time listener (since the station started broadcasting in the old 1430CJCL days) I hope this change lasts for a while.

I liked the Gord Stellick / Don Landry tandem even though they were on the radio a couple years too long for my liking – which made me seek out an alternative talk-radio station and that was the fabulous right-leaning AM640.  With Oakley in the morning and his cast of regulars I was hooked.  While I was savouring the news-talk radio, the FAN was experimenting with morning show hosts until they settled on the aggressive Krystal.  I never took a liking to his gruff style.  He made, in my opinion, way too many lame potty humour jokes, and talked over pretty much everyone in order to finish his quips.  Listening to him and money man Mike Epple was frustrating as Epple would have to start and stop as often as Krystal would giggle his way through butt jokes.

I think Krystal should be on Q107 or something like that…  And on the bright side, did I not hear Brady stating he was married to Canadian recording “legend” Luba for 6 months?!?  Or maybe he was joking in and around the fact that he too has small kids and they are a lot of work.  I’m sure the weeks and months of listening to him on the morning drive into the office will answer those questions and many more.

Anyways, the AK experiment is over.  Below is a link to an article I wrote on my sports blog, so feel free to click through for more of the same. 

http://daddyknowssports.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/sportsnet-fan590-morning-show-changes-ak-is-out/

Tune in again tomorrow… Same time, same channel.

Urban daddy’s Thursday thirteen. Thirteen strange search engine queries which brought people here

Urban daddy’s Thursday thirteen.

This week’s list contains thirteen strange search engine queries which brought people to this blog.

Let’s get started…

13. Unprotected sex with me, my brother in his room - I don’t even know what to say about this search engine query, other than to wonder if it’s someone looking for this topic, or someone typing it in for kicks.  Either way, there ain’t nuthin’ here to help out.  Might I suggest condoms, or less alcohol at your family functions!
12. 2010 coffee shop ranks – Ah yes, it’s almost time for my 2011 coffee shop ranking so now you’ll know where to go buy your coffee.  Thanks for the reminder.
11. Most popular instant coffee – That would now be Starbucks VIA – Colombian.  So, so good.
10. 9 is greater than infinity – Err, no it’s not.  9 is greater than 8…. and 7…6… Get it.   Dumbass!
9. Best websites urban daddy – I can handle this query in 2 ways.  The first is to say thank you and the second is to remind readers that the blogroll in the right column of my blog, there are some fantastic bloggers that you really should check out.  That’s why they’re there!
8. Street view porn – Even I googled this to see if it’s legit, but it’s not.  I suspect I’ll have a search engine query next week entitled, “street view porn – made you look”
7. Men adjusting their penis in diapers – I’m not sure if the person looking for this query were looking for text or pictures, old or young men, and more importantly… why!
6. George Smitherman donor list – Yeah, where the fuck is that list, Georgie?!? 
5. “toddler won’t get out of bed” – As the parent of 3 children, I’d love to know who searched for this because I would grab them by their shirt and pass along 2 pieces of advice.  First, you’re the parent.  If your toddler is already running the house you’re in deep shit when they get older, and second, maybe you need to get them to bed earlier so they’ll get up when they need to.  You’re welcome, please send payment to Urban Daddy c/o Urban Daddy.  Toronto.
4. meth labs in Toronto – Are you looking for one?  Either your an idiot junkie, or a resourceful police officer.
3. Elliott Hurst / supernova / family / club rockit – www.supernova.com, CEO Elliott Hurst.  He guest blogs here and buys me coffee half the time we meet up when our kids are doing karate together, but Elliott… Someone keeps googling your name and wife and kids.  To stop this from happening, I can proudly announce that yes you do have both…  Now stalkers, fuck off!
2. laid off daddy bloggers, Canada – Are you asking for a list or are you one?  I didn’t know this was a profession… I’ll have to add it to my resume.
1. what is it like working at urbandaddy – It’s fucking fantastic!  Amazing pay, long vacations, tons of room for advancement… All you need to do is clean up after 3 kids – including tons of poo – and blog when you get a few free minutes which usually means at 1 am.  Ahhh, the grass is greener on the other side.

 

 

Keep those crazy searches coming folks!

I love comments! I really do!

To bad this one was spam, because it made me laugh… A lot.

“The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I actually thought IT SUCKED!”

He he.  Better than nothing, eh?

Tell it like it is… To a 6 year old…

I had the pleasure of picking up 3 boys from a birthday party this afternoon – one of which was my son from a birthday party.  The boys had been running around all afternoon and had wet hair and very red cheeks.  They were also all hyped up on sugar, so it took me a while to get them dressed and into the car.  In fact, 30 minutes later, they were in the car, the sugar high wearing off, when one of the boys piped up with the following comment; “I have to get home soon because my Dad and I are watching the Super Bowl and ordering pizza.  We’re even eating it on the couch.”

The other 2 boys liked that… Eating pizza on the couch - not the football reference – so I invited myself over. 

“Who is playing?” asked one the kids.

“Steelers against Green Bay” said the boy.

“Who are you voting for?” I asked.

“I don’t know” he said.

So I used this opportunity to school the boys.  Here is the crap that came out of my mouth.

“Well… You can vote for the Steelers, but why would you cheer for a team that likes to Steal?  Stealing is bad. so don’t ever steal.  But really, steal means to take something that does not belong to you and then you get caught and go to jail, whereas steel is the material used in building buildings.  So Steelers is named that way because they make a lot of steel in Pittsburgh.  Now Green Bay, on the other hand, their team is called the Packers – I don’t know why, but people wear cheese on their heads so it must have something to do with that.  And while Pittsburgh is known for steel, Toronto is known for crappy sports teams, like the Toronto Maple Leafs – people call them the Buds, but they should be called the Bads, and also bad are the Soccer club, the TFC, and the Toronto Raptors.  UGH.”

Then I looked in the mirror and all three boys were looking at me puzzled.

Then the boy who was watching the game with his Dad spoke up, “Well, maybe Toronto just has teams that are not as well put together as teams in all the other cities.”

“Son”, I said…

I’ve been a Toronto sports fan my whole life – which is coming up on 40 years – and besides the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Rock, I have been VERY disappointed in these team.  Get used to it!

Man that brought me down.

Toronto sports does suck right now.  Except the Toronto Rock.

Thank you Toronto Rock.

Oh, and vote for the Packers.  I’m predicting a 31-28 victory.