After a MLB season-long hiatus from blogging due to yet another horrible Blue Jays' season endured, it's time to reinvigorate things around here. What better way to do so than to use the premise of this blog. That is right, our boy, John Farrell, is leading his Boston "Dream Job" Red Sox into the World Series beginning tonight. After using Toronto as an experimental girlfriend before marrying the love of his life, he has instantaneously found himself four wins away from baseball glory. If all of our decisions in life ended up this good, we would all look like geniuses.
Now, how many Blue Jays' fans will actually be rooting for Farrell after spitting in their faces? I'm guessing, and certainly hoping, they can be counted on one hand, and may that be person be counted with a middle digit directed squarely on Farrell.
Farrell, however, is no the first member of a Toronto sports team who thought it would be better to go elsewhere in an attempt to win a championship. We have seen beloved Maple Leafs Mats Sundin and Curtis Joseph try and win a Stanley Cup elsewhere. The much loved Roy Halladay orchestrated his way out of town to try and win World Series with the Phillies. Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady spurned the Raptors hoping to lead a non-Canadian team to a NBA championship. (NOTE: Had they stayed together in Toronto they would have had a better chance at a championship than anywhere else. An anti-Farrell-like decision). The underlying theme -- all former Toronto sporting greats who I wished nothing but failure upon. I could not stomach seeing these guys achieve and enjoy glory in a uniform other than Toronto's. All those years of rooting and great memories, and they want to slap Toronto in the face thinking the grass is greener on the other side?! Uh-uh...no thank you.
Of course, you will all point to the one glaring omission from the list about -- Chris Bosh. He is probably the one I most wanted to see fail after he left the Raptors in true douche-bag fashion to ride the coattails of LeBron and D-Wade. Unfortunately, we have had to stomach him celebrating, cue LeBron James spiel, "not one, but two" championships. Definitely do I not want to see him win a third, but the damage has already been done.
May Bosh continue to be the only ex-Toronto player/manager to leave and win elsewhere, and may Farrell suck it in the World Series.
Join me in a resounding "F U Farrell" and a "Let's Go Cardinals"!
