Stronach joins Domi in the sin bin (Canadian Liberal MP's crash & burn saga continues ... snicker)

National Post - Canada ^ | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 | Don Martin

[GMMAC]

However, given the Leafs have failed to win the Stanley Cup for now 4 decades, it's unlikely they engender anything even close to the level of universal hatred in hockey that a certain New York team does in baseball.

I can well remember cheering wildly for the Pirates in the '60 World Series despite otherwise always having been an American League fan!

[GMMAC]

FYI: women journalists lay a beating on Belinda

[kellynch]

I hate individual Leafs because of the way certain goons have treated players on my team over the years.

I hate the Yankees because I am a decent, moral, God-fearing person.

I hate the Yankees because their dugout is filled with sore losers and bad winners who think that all those trophies automatically means they are a classy organization (coughcoughmikekekichcoughfritzpetersoncoughwifeswappingcoughluispoloniacoughstatutoryrapecough). I hate the Yankees because the players and their fans don't realize that one gains respect not by the number of trophies one has, but by how one handles the winning of those trophies. I hate the Yankees because nobody affiliated with that organization seems to understand that class means winning with grace and losing with dignity. I hate the Yankees becasue the coverboy with all those mystical "intangibles" whom we are told "leads by example" leads a bunch of back-stabbing weasels...yet he remains unscathed. I hate the Yankees because their owner's box is occupied by a megalomaniacal narcissist who has shown a willingness to break the law to win (coughhowiespiracoughcough...).

Hating the Yankees is a time-honored tradition that has been passed down from parent-to-child in North America for more than 80 years.

Plain and simple, the Yankees $uck. They always have, and they always will.

LET'S GO METS!!!!!

[GMMAC]

TESTIFY !!!

BTW, it may interest you that Drew, the son of Toronto-born Ron Taylor the relief ace of the World Series champion 69 Mets and long-time Blue Jays' team physician, was signed out of the University of Minnesota by same this past summer.

Incidentally, I was always a Detroit fan prior Toronto receiving its AL franchise 30 years ago.
As a kid, an American uncle took me to my first MLB game at old Tiger Stadium & once thus bought-off ...

[kellynch]

I knew that Ron Taylor was a Met, and I knew he was the Jays' physician. What I did not know was that he was from Toronto or that he'd gone to Minnesota.

My father is from Michigan, and he used to hitchhike to Tiger Stadium back in the 40s. He moved to NYC in the early 50s and for decades, his fondest baseball dream has been to see the Tigers and the Mets in the WS. My brother and I are perfectly fine with him wanting the Tigers to win.

I like hockey, and I like NFL football, but baseball is a passion with me. I see no point to basketball whatsoever. I can't remember which comedian said it, but I agree with whoever said that they should spot each team 100 points and only make the games 5 minutes long.

[GMMAC]

"... he'd gone to Minnesota."

Not Ron, who must now be 70 or close to it, his son 'Drew'.

Paying tribute to the doc - nice bio on Rons 65th birthday in 2002, so I was close above.

Medicine Men (scroll down - 2nd article on page)

More about Ron Taylor - 2nd letter down in response to article above.

BTW, our views on professional sports are virtually identical.

You can tell your dad, I grew up in the late 50's / early 60's with nothing but fans of the vile Yankees. When we'd play sandlot ball, there'd always be heated arguments over who got to be Mantle, Maris, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, etc. Somehow I never got any objections to wanting to be Al Kaline.

[kellynch]

I guess I misread that part of your post. Sorry!

I'm a native New Yorker. My mother grew up worshipping the Giants. She was in high school when Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot heard 'round the world." She hated the Yankees so much that she wouldn't even root for them over the Dodgers (she just hoped that a hole would open up and swallow them both). Mom and Dad passed along the Yankee-hating genes to me and my brother. We are proud third-generation Yankee-haters on both sides of the family, and my brother is doing his part to pass the tradition on to the next generation.

[GMMAC]

Personally, I get tired of hearing about the New-York-centric alleged "Shot heard 'round the world.".
Yawn ... Bill Mazeroski & Joe Carter both hit come-from-behind, walk-off homers to win a World Series which to me is just a tad more monumental than one which clinched a mere League pennant.

It's like that supposed all-time greatest catch by Willie Mays: definitely marvelous but, no doubt in my mind I've seen it equaled considerably more than once.

[kellynch]

Bias? What bias?

;-)

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for posting that link, GMMAC. This story gets stranger by the day, it seems.

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I guess all the real Canadian celebrities must be down here in the US.

[goldstategop]

A married man does NOT go out in public with a woman who is NOT his wife. People are bound to draw the conclusion you're a couple. There's nothing completely platonic between a man and a woman. Period.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[GMMAC]

"... all the real Canadian celebrities must be down here in the US."

Likely Bill Shatner's biggest fan (see: post #52) would agree with you.

Or maybe you picture us up here pining our days away waiting until Celine Dion next deems to return home?

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoy hearing about any deserved misfortunes which befall liberals regardless of their geographic locale since, without doubt, they're exactly the same whiny, sanctimonious, self-entitled hypocrites wherever you go.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I think this says it all.

From your link...

And surely no one can really think the attention she's receiving is because she's a woman. Does she know nothing about the media?

There are plenty of reasons why women don't run for politics, but the risk of being named publicly as the Other Woman just isn't one of them.

Is Stronach the victim of a double standard?

What a ridiculous and self-serving accusation.

And given the pain being felt by Leanne Domi and her children, whining that you're being picked on because you're a woman is so self-centred that the women's movement could stall for yet another 100 years.

Small wonder that women are having trouble getting ahead when this is the plop coming out of one of the country's best-known female politicians.

[Alberta's Child]

Small wonder that women are having trouble getting ahead when this is the plop coming out of one of the country's best-known female politicians.

For a moment I thought this was something you added to the end, and not part of the article itself. This is the kind of hard-hitting, colorful line you'd come up with yourself!

LOL.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I know I'm brilliant, but I can't take credit for this, LOL! (I'm kidding, btw)

[Lancey Howard]

Good grief! Stronach does absolutely nothing for me. I mean, even if she had never revealed herself to be a back-stabbing scumbag I can't see ever buying her a drink no matter how stupid I got.

Do Canadian men consider her attractive?

[Charles Henrickson]

The unlikely friendship between MP Belinda Stronach and retired Toronto hockey enforcer Tie Domi. . . .

Tie goes to the runner.

[Alberta's Child]

Oh, I know you're brilliant. I won't tell anyone, though . . . we'll just keep this our little secret. ;-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks. ;-)