With the Raptors falling back to earth, the Maple Leafs forever in a state of playoff limbo, it’s only a matter of time before the Blue Jays lose their wings
A little over eight years. That’s how long the New Golden Age of Toronto sports lasted.
It’s important to remember how desolate the Toronto sports scene was as he arrived. No major-league team had won anything in 20 years. It had been a decade since any of those four teams had taken a single playoff round.Game 7 against the Bruins. The star turn on the soccer club had announced that his side was not just awful by sad North American standards, but “the worst team in the world.”
And, of course, because we can’t get anything right, we were wrong about that, too. Leiweke made a bunch of quick decisions that turned the ship. He invested heavily in the soccer team because it was the one outfit that could spend its way to competence. It won a championship four years later. But Toronto has a gravity that cannot be denied. All along, unseen forces were pulling it back toward its old combo – mediocrity and chaos.
But in Toronto, the corporate and family interests are intertwined. They all sit on the board of MLSE together, bound by a common goal – increasing franchise value. Until one of the guys on top started getting ideas. He’s got some thoughts on payroll and personnel and, hey, why exactly do we need
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