The World Series has turned into yet another U.S.-Canada passion play. Spare me.
Canadians, suffering their eternal inferiority complex when it comes to the United States, are frothing at the mouth and hyperventilating over Toronto being in the World Series, with a chance to restore national honor and humble the Americans by winning against Los Angeles.
Take that, Donald Trump!
Toronto won the opener Friday, in one-sided fashion, and might just win Game 2 tonight. Yippee.
I will confess that, in my youth, I used to get caught up in this sort of thing. I rooted mightily for the U.S. in the Olympics vs. the Soviets, for example.
Eventually, we defeated the Soviet Union on the world power stage, not because our hockey team won the Miracle On Ice game, but because Ronald Reagan upped the defense stakes and forced the Soviet Union into economic collapse.
That’s why we now have Russia and a lot of independent former Soviet countries.
If Toronto wins the World Series, that won’t change the reality that Canada is an afterthought in the world, despite the ravings of their Carney Barker prime minister.
Canada is a cultural slave to the United States, largely relying on our movies and music. And economically, there’s an old saying that if the U.S. sneezes, Canada catches pneumonia.
Trump’s trolling of Canada as our potential 51st state isn’t that far off from economic reality. Did you know that if U.S. states California, Texas or New York were separate countries, each would have a higher gross domestic product (GDP) than economic lightweight Canada?
Florida almost matches Canada, too.
During the height of sporting tensions amidst hockey’s 4 Nations Face-off, overwrought Canadians were online suggesting Canada just might take military action vs. us. Good luck with that. I researched at the time and just double-checked again – Canada has 89 fighter jets – total – and each U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has 90!
Good luck to what some online types call the Snow Mexicans.
Recently, Canada irked Trump by running an ad on their TV mis-representing Reagan on the subject of tariffs.
Trump greeted that by canceling trade talks with Canada. For all the pontificating about how this will hurt the U.S., stay tuned to see who blinks in the end.
Toronto is Canada’s New York City, a land of leftists intent on supporting illegals and denying history and traditions.
But how can I root for Los Angeles? The City of Angels has morphed into the City of Illegals. My late father used to tell me as a child that our country was tilted to the west and all the assorted loose nuts rolled to California.
How correct he was.
The World Series will drone on, with Toronto being painted as a team of avenging underdogs, despite the fact that the Blue Jays ranked No. 5 in payrolls at the start of the season, according to USA Today, at $239.6 million.
Los Angeles was No. 2 at $321.2 million.
This series is being contested between two of MLB’s elite spenders and one just happens to be from Canada.
Beyond that, it’s merely baseball and not of a particularly interesting variety.
The result that would please me most would be if both possibly could lose.
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