Toronto 3 - 1 San Jose

I wasn’t planning to blog about last night’s Toronto FC match – there are several hundred bloggers who provide match reports for every TFC match and I’m not in a great rush to be the several hundred and first – then Toronto scored its third goal, and the match rose to a level of comedy/ineptitude that I felt needed to be commented on.

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The Raptors: God Bows to Math

The trade to be finalized today has not yet made the Raptors a better team; the two players the team added when the Hedo Turkoglu signing became a sign and trade are marginal at best. Neither is even as likable a player as Kris Humphries – the key extra player now departing in this four-team deal.

Instead, it is the sheer mathematical precision of the deal that is notable – and, it is the free agent options now back on the table that will give the Raptors a chance to become a better team.

The math is pretty breathtaking.

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2009 Gold Cup Group Stage – Canada 1 - 0 Jamaica: Game Notes

- It was frustrating to see so many holdover players. In some far off – almost beyond the realm of the imagination – world, come Brazil 2014, is Paul Stalteri going to be the 36-year-old right back of the Canadian World Cup team? Is Patrice Bernier (a marginal player in his prime) going to start in midfield at 34? Will we see 37-year-old Richard Hastings warming on the sidelines? It’s time for the gold watch treatment for these, and other, noble servants.

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