TFC’s Playoff Hopes (If Any)

Over the past month, the playoff hopes of Toronto FC have quietly faded. The results have not been terrible – in August, the team was level on goals in league play. Nevertheless, on the first of September, the club sits outside of the playoffs and looks likely to stay that way.

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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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