Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'majorleaguebaseball'
February 16, 2008
If you're like us (and, God willing, you’re not), then you're utterly exasperated by the ongoing steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. You're puzzled that the United States Congress has nothing better to do than to interrogate multimillionaire athletes who might've used performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, you're wondering why, this past Wednesday morning, no fewer than three Canadian sports networks were showing live coverage of the Roger Clemens hearing. Is it really that important? Regardless,......
Continue Reading "Say It Ain't So, Gregg Zaun!"July 27, 2007
A hundred and one games into the 2007 Major League Baseball season—a year in which they were widely expected to challenge the Eastern Seaboard's hegemony in the American League East—the Toronto Blue Jays are exactly one game over .500. In other words, this won't be the breakout year after all; in fact, it'll be tough for them to replicate last year's 87-75 record, which was only good enough for second place in the division.......
Continue Reading "Another Year of the Creamy Middles"May 30, 2007
Sam the Record Man is closing its Yonge Street store on June 30. Remember when Sam's was the only place you could get a cassette of The Lowest of the Low's Shakespeare My Butt? Remember cassettes? Two high profile cases got their day in court yesterday. Wing-Piao Dumani Ross and Alexander Ryazanov, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the 2006 death of cabbie Tahir Khan. The pair were sentenced to house arrest for a year,......
Continue Reading "Sam's Closes, Dollar Rises, Conan Surprises"February 17, 2007
Forget what “they” told you about the dearth of cheap tinfoil at Dollarama. The truth is much more insidious: now in its third year, Funkless.com is hosting a contest to judge the most innovative mind-control-beam deflecting apparatuses in the city. Hey, who says paranoia has to dampen creativity? Hostess Cynthia Gould is pleasantly surprised at the success of this and other Funkless.com parties. “The funkless philosophy began when I told a few people about......
Continue Reading "Blocking Satellite Beams in Style"November 12, 2006
Photograph of Rick Santorum conceding defeat with his family by Gene J. Puskar/AP The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores.......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse"June 7, 2006
Caveat: This Torontoist knows nothing of sports. Apparently there was some draft picking going on this afternoon. The only draft I know about is the kind that gives me a belly. Round 1 The Jays went high school instead of their usual college focus with lefty Traviz Snider, age 18... 6 feet... 230 pounds (That's more than two of this Torontoist.) (14th pick) Round 2 & 3 We didn't participate in the 2nd and......
Continue Reading "Was It a Pick or a Scratch?"January 13, 2005
What's the connection between the freckle-faced, gangly figure at far left and the vicious thug beside him? One is that they're both baseball players. The other is that they're actually the same person. The kid is Jason Giambi, freshly drafted by the Oakland Athletics of the American League. The absurd Michelin Man-apparent is Jason Giambi, disgraced first baseman for the New York Yankees. Giambi is on record, leaked from the proceedings of a California......
Continue Reading "Baseball Tries to Curb 'Roid Rage"December 3, 2004
The Toronto sporting community will be given an opportunity to put the Major League Baseball drug scandal on the back burner tonight, as AHL hockey comes to town. Just under 18,000 screaming hockey fans will be treated to a prolific display of second-rate talent, when the Binghamton Senators roll into the ACC to take on the St John's Baby Leafs. Spezza versus Stajan apparently has the same draw these days as Sundin against Alfredsson had......
Continue Reading "Adrian to NHL: I'd Rather Play Sega"