The Red Sox are a roller coaster this year. The Jays finished first last year, so they aren't a bad team. They're just an awful team, in the logic of sports... But teams can get hot. The Red Sox have to get that swing going - they look like a band playing standards and forgetting why. Dropping pop ups. It looks like the early season again out there.
The Jays have played well since the trade deadline as kids hungry for a job and bench players wanting to stay on the roster are playing hard. They started the season playing like stars who thought they'd automatically be in the World Series again, and now are in last. But the guys sparking them now weren't there.
I was an Expos fan, then switched to following the Red Sox and the Jays. When they play each other, I can't get upset either way. But I want them to play well.
As for the oft discussed Braves - when their GM was an unpaid intern in the Expos organization, I almost ended up working around him, in a project to provide English teaching to Spanish speaking players so they could meet the media better. It didn't happen, unfortunately, but I've always wished the guy well. He was really resourceful and driven. But I loathed the Braves as they were always good when the Expos were. The Phillies were always bad at the same time as the Expos, and there was many a battle for last place there. But battles for first were with those (*(& Braves.
