Hot Streak!

The much maligned Raptors of T-dot fame went into this weekend 1 and 15. After back to back nights against the Hawks and the Nets with Vince 'no-heart' Carter, they managed to triple their win total on the year, and so are officially on an undeniable hot streak. Tonight's game against Baby Vince wasn't televised (at least on the cable I subscribe to), but one need only look at a live Yahoo blurb about Vince going out injured and the third, and then coming back to play out the fourth quarter to revisit the memory of Vince Carter's whining up here. Had he still been in a Raptor jersey with that injury, you can be guaranteed he'd be on the bench with a towel on his shoulders for the rest of the game, and his mom talkin shit about the franchise.

Tonight however, I was ecstatic to see Chris Bosh take it to them, and not fade down the stretch for a 13 point victory. After the Eskimos avenging the Argo's semi-final loss in the Grey Cup, and the Jays signing top free-agent B.J. Ryan, and a primetime Leafs loss to the new-look Sharks, this has been a decidedly good week in Toronto sports. And as an aside, Joe Thornton is a classy guy. He was a nextdoor neighbour of my great aunt and uncle, and if I remember correctly showed up at the funeral when my great uncle lost his fight with leukemia. Hopefully he gets more respect out west than he was getting in Boston...although one can't expect much respect for hockey in any city that doesn't naturally experience ice.