Toronto Earns Respect !

Toronto, as a sports city, is always struggling for respect.  The Leafs, Raptors, and Jays always feel like the little brother who never gets picked in the older boy’s ball game.  It is etched in our psyche.  Evidence of this is how we boo feverishly any player that we feel spurned us in Free Agency as soon as they return to Toronto to play.

However, the latest “Toronto Spurning” was not by a player. It was by a Manager.  John Farrell left the Blue Jays for the greener pastures of Boston.  And, tradition dictates that we must Boo him feverishly every time he touches field play, the ball, or takes his position.  But he’s the manager, and this complicates things.  He will rarely touch the ball or the field and he doesn’t play a position.  He just kinda sits there and so it won’t even be easy to with single focus direct Boos at Coach Farrell.

I think Torontonians need to forget the tradition of booing in this case.  I really feel, even though I have no empirical evidence to prove my thesis, that John actually was the proverbial straw that motivated the Jays to stop the traditional we can’t compete with the Yanks and Red Sox mantra and got them to say “MLB, and World, we’re gonna show you”!!!!!!!!!! And, since then Alex the GM and the Jays have been on fire.

So, I think, when John Farrell and the Red Sox come to Toronto, we need to stand up and say “ThanK You John”!  And, if perchance, the Jays win the World Series in the next few years because of the moves made in the off season of 2012, we need to let go of the Toronto complex for good!  Because, other than the weather, this is the best city in the world and from now on, we know what to do!

Ok, fine, just his first trip to Toronto!  Let him have it!  ;)

Hold tight!