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The Jays played seven games last week. The games were all close (decided by an average of 1.3 runs) and most of them were lost.
This is what the week looked like: L 2-3; L 4-5; L 4-6; L 3-5; W 6-5; L 3-4; L 1-2.
This is what every loss felt like:
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When R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball is really working, it’s dancing.
Not because of its precision or its grace (though it has plenty of both), but because of its movement. To create it, Dickey digs his fingernails behind the “horseshoe” of the baseball and uses his remaining fingers as guides on either side of it. In this way, he is also dancing; he is the lead. Each time Dickey throws the ball, he is directing his partner towards the plate in hopes of helping it fight against its natural enemy: spin.
As the lead, Dickey’s responsibility isn’t to be noticed himself, but to help his partner shine. Last Thursday against the White Sox, Dickey’s knuckleball finally shone from start to finish, and the sight of it was, pardon the pun, quite striking.
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Last week, The Star reported that after the brutal 11-1 loss to the Red Sox, the Jays hosted a team dinner at a Brazilian steak house. It’s been my experience that a lower quality Brazilian restaurant may end up turning stomachs, but I imagine the kind of Brazilian joint that Major League money can buy — with meats rubbed in exotic, perhaps even illegal substances and knee injections from Kobe’s German doctor — may in fact be capable of turning an entire season. But is the Jays’ year even in need of “turning around”?
Yes, a lot has happened to the Blue Jays: in the offseason; in the preseason; during the first 12 games; but there are still 150 left to be played. As unfamiliar, yet impressive as it is to see Jays fans take each win personally, each loss to heart and come one step short of putting together a candlelight vigil in Dundas Square for Jose Reyes’ ankle, the reality is the season is very, very long and many season-makers/breakers are yet to come. If the baseball season was a game being called by Gus Johnson, he’d lose his voice a few minutes into it.
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Yesterday at the Davis Cup in Vancouver GTA native Milos Raonic defeated Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to bring Team Canada to its first ever World Group Semi-Final appearance in the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Team Canada arrived at this match by defeating the number 1 ranked Team Spain whose team was plagued by injury losing both Nadal and Ferrer before the tournament.
Raonic’s win follows the win by Canada’s Doubles team consisting of Vasek Pospisil and Daniel Nestor whose game went to a tie-breaker but was secured with a win on Saturday.
Photo: Milos Raonic
The Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is an annual competition between countries of the world using elimination rounds. Starting in 1900 between Britain and the US the tournament now attracts 130 nations to compete. Top countries over time have included the United States with 32 wins and Australia who has won 28 times. The current champs are the Czech Republic who defeated Spain last year for the title.
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Toronto is the only Canadian city that has three “big-league” teams. It’s also the coolest and the prettiest and last night it allowed you the simple pleasure of walking into a restaurant at 4:00 a.m. looking for green (cold) tea and ordering too many Shanghai noodles, but that’s beside the point.
This post is about those three teams. It’s about showing some love to what makes the Toronto sports scene unique. But most of all it’s about arbitrarily ranking those three teams without any regard for objectivity. Since we’re a positive site, we’ll start with #1.
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“The Sport Brahs” is a podcast hosted by Toronto comedians Dylan Gott and Graham Kay where they, along with a guest, discuss their top 3 athletes/teams in any given category. Topics can be as vague as “ugliest athletes” and as specific as “best white NBA centres,” but the end results are always hilarious.
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