Take Kyle Dubas' body of work. From contract extensions, free agents, drafting, trades, the playoff results, all of it. Okay now apply it to a GM over the age of 60 years old. Does it still look good?
He’s the son of a Cuban revolutionary who rose up against US ally Fulgencio Batista and wanted to join Fidel Castro’s insurgency in the Sierra Madre lol. Rafael here completely re-invented his life story so he could be embraced by US whiteness
The IG status seeking succubuses whose faces are made of plastic and started watching baseball last year love talking the most shit of the Dodgers fanbase
The worst part of being a Toronto sports fan is how “close” they always come, and the inevitable “ it was a great series” talks after
And then it’s literal hell watching the opposite team say “they’re a great team over there” after they pull a miracle, Disney script level moment on us, the stuff Hollywood nuts over
And then there’s the Toronto fan at home, sitting there with a black hole in his gut, as he has a weird numb feeling battling the urge just walk around aimlessly in a state where the slight inconvenience makes you want to leap in front of the go train.
Anyways that’s just the worst part of being a Toronto fan
Hockey has markets where the attention is NFL like and other markets treat NHL teams like they’re middling MLS franchises.
The discrepancy between markets is an indictment on the NHL’s popularity.
Being happy to be in a place where people don’t care as much isn’t a flex.
Baseball players trip over each other to play in markets like New York, LA, and Boston, but the supposed "toughest" athletes in pro sports are apparently too chickenshit to handle the big lights