Even “boring” basketball is better than exciting baseball.

A bit of a shot in the dark here, but my parsing of baseball being “regional” is that most fans care about their preferred team, and maybe the rest of the division—but won’t tune in to teams just because they’re “great” or whatever in the same way that one would for the Super Bowl or NBA Finals between two teams they…

No one escapes regression.

Do people actually hate the Red Wings? (Outside of the two remaining Avalanche fans, of course.) I certainly begrudged their success, but how can you actively dislike fellas like Lidstrom, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Yzerman et al? Pure class, through and through.

Those three are my top three, but with the Leafs on top cuz I’m a bitter Sens fan. Boston and Montreal round out my top 5. The Canucks would probably be close to breaking through, too, as they’re kind of the Leafs of Western Canada (and their fans... their fans are very very bad).

WHERE THE HELL IS SPARTACAT

Underrated song from a properly-rated (ie: entirely forgettable) film: Sheryl Crow’s “Tomorrow Never Dies”

Sens fan here. Go Preds.

I can vouch for the Greyhound station being the saddest building in the entire Okanagan.

To be fair, 90% of calls to any sports radio show in Canada are along the same lines (do yourself a favour and listen to the Sens’ postgame shit with Lee Versage sometime if you want to feel better about not being a Sens fan).

This is about right. Despite my feeling that Calgary is a boring, lily-white city full of yoga instructors who drive-pick up trucks, I’ve never been able to feel anything negative or positive toward the Flames besides “Iggy was pretty good!”

That’s the spirit. I think I’ve successfully drank away all the Lalime traumas (it only took a decade and a half), but how goes your coping with the second biggest collapse of 2013 after that Bangladeshi factory that killed a thousand people?

The Canadian broadcaster tic of adding the bumfuck hometowns of every fourth-line grinder just to fill the air is the greatest example of Canada’s horrendous inferiority complex. Most of those places are utter shitholes, too, although Kelowna’s pretty nice.

As a Sens fan, this is exactly true (fuck you for 2000-04, repeatedly, and also the Mark Bell hit on Alfie). The only people who are willing to hop aboard the “Canada’s team” train are the ones who don’t really care for a particular team in the first place.

Until Methot gets to cut one of Crosby’s finger tips off, he’s getting off lightly.

He also gets the opposing teams’ best checking lines and defensive pairings, which always cuts down his production. Meanwhile, Geno/Kessel et al get the second pairings and usually feast on them accordingly. Depth is a nice thing to have.

I understand that there is fantastic shawarma (or shawarma-adjacent cuisine) to be found in the ‘burbs (Mississauga in particular), but without car access, there’s no way in hell I’m heading north of, say, St. Clair or east of, say, Coxwell, even for shawarma.

I worked at a Little Caesar’s for about a year (hot tip: don’t do that) as a 15-year-old. Between the deals on pizza, the free slices and occasional free crazy bread, it was very easy to spend not much money and eat a metric fuck tonne (this being Canada and all).

“Financially viable” =/= “having to sell out 11 straight playoff games.” The team ain’t rich, but it’s still viable in Ottawa.

False, but Windsor is a close #2 behind Ottawa. The important thing is, though, that they’re both infinitely better than the trash you get in Toronto.