It's weird. I know they used to be in the National League, and I know they're now in the American League, but that thought just occurred to me right now.

His real-life crippling fear of actual bears helps it as well. Speaking about the Cubs on The Colbert Report: "Nation, they may be cute and cuddly, but they're still just as dangerous."

Oh, with Baltimore, sure. Though to be fair, that beer can throwing at your outfielder was treated here with grassy knoll-type investigation, and I've even heard the Jays donated to a Baltimore-area charity. But yeah, our teams don't get along. With Cleveland, it seems good-natured. We met in the NBA semis last year,…

The worst part was having all the non-Leaf fans in my area call it the most hilarious thing they'd ever seen, and having absolutely no reason to disagree whatsoever.

The sad thing is, Sanchez could possibly allow for one run and still not prevent a sweep. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Russell Martin hitting into a double play is a drinking game in Cleveland.

It likely goes without saying that the proximity to B.C. and the Blue Jays being Canada's only team contributed largely to that. That was a big story here as well. It's nice to hear some kind words for Jays fans. I swear, we went from being viewed as "the most boring fans in baseball" as David Wells called us to an…

For the Texas media to champion that picture of Odor punching Bautista in the face prior to the series only to have him be the guy whose error cost the team the series was embarrassing to watch even as a Jays fan. That being said, Russell Martin's preference for hitting into double plays against a team who doesn't…

They seem to be doing just that, for real, so you're in luck.

Always reminds me of the phone exchange between Michael and Jan on The Office:

Not saying you're wrong, but I don't think I've ever once see that happen. I'm in Ontario, and everyone I know is either a Leafs, Habs, Red Wings or Bruins fan. Though if it helps, I'm pulling pretty strongly for Nashville this year, based both on family ties in Tennessee and my like for Subban.

And Boston.

I'd make the case for Toronto here, but 1993 is not 1948. Interesting that the Mets, Cubs, Pirates, Royals, Jays and Indians are all successful now when the polar opposite was true for so many years.

As a guy who was in downtown Toronto to watch the biggest game-7 third period collapse in NHL history, I remember.

I think the Marlins song by Scott Stapp of Creed makes a strong argument, but given his personal difficulties, it seems wrong to make fun.

So was Toronto. Short of the poor-taste cheering at Jason Bauer leaving the field last night, I like that there's no bad blood between our two teams/cities. Lebron and Lowry/Derozan has been a fun sidebar as well.

My worry for Chicago is that it will be like when Boston won their first in '06 or so. You could put about as much lore into it as you can with the Cubs (being the first to come back from 0-3 against the Yankees, no less), but it was still almost instantly ruined by talking heads who couldn't give any pageantry or…

You certainly deserve it if you pull it off this afternoon. I'm not sure what you did to the Blue Jays, but it worked.

Upvoted for your username. I hope the Business Factory is treating you well.

Separately, giving a name to it led me to Wikipedia, and I was unaware it was as well-documented a tragedy as it was. For what it's worth, though the nightclub owners are largely viewed as right to blame, both by the families of victims and the legal system (contrasted with the tour manager, who still served time and…

Yeah, that's the one. When he returns to the front door where the people were stuck and it's just flames was the worst part for me. Hell of a staff meeting!