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MFS62 Jul 01 2010 10:08 AM

was June 14th. But, as we play the team that used to call Canada home during our 4th of July Holiday weekend, thought I'd ask a few questions: Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Least favorite? What do you like about Canada? What don't you like about it? Have you been to Canada? Where did you go? Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Later

Edgy DC Jul 01 2010 10:11 AM Re: Canada Day

What's not to like about Canada? Alanis and Celine, I guess.

Ceetar Jul 01 2010 10:13 AM Re: Canada Day

Don't have a favorite/least favorite Canadian basball player. Don't pay a ton of attention to nationalities. I like the drinking age, the availability of some non-US type candy bars, and that they have curling. I've been to Canada dozens of times. (I went to school in Buffalo, 16 miles from Niagara Falls). the Niagara Falls vicinity is the only part of Canada I've been to, but it's a fun place. I'd like to check out the blue Jays, and Vancouver is supposed to be nice.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 01 2010 10:16 AM Re: Canada Day

I've been to Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Also to Quebec City and the more remote regions in Quebec north of Quebec City. They're all nice enough places, though I think Vancouver gets more credit for beauty than it deserves. I suppose my favorite Canadian player is Jason Bay, because he's a Met at the present time. Had you asked this question 39 years ago, I would have said Ron Taylor. The bear claws in the Canadian section of EPCOT are tasty. And that's about all I have to say about Canada.

TransMonk Jul 01 2010 10:38 AM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Jason Bay, of course. Least favorite? Joey Votto, Met killer. What do you like about Canada? Neil Young, low firearm fatality rates, universal health care. What don't you like about it? Bryan Adams, I get stopped every time at the border, frostbite. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? All through Ontario (Toronto, Hamilton, London), Montreal Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? The west coast.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 01 2010 10:54 AM Re: Canada Day

I'm pretty sure today is Canada Day, June 14 is Flag Day in the US. Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Ray Daivault Least favorite? Jason Bay What do you like about Canada? It's big and clean. What don't you like about it? Higher likelihood of bear attacks Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Ontario, Montreal, Quebec City Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

attgig Jul 01 2010 11:03 AM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Jason Bay, of course. Least favorite? Adam Loewen What do you like about Canada? health care, rockies, the extreme north, and rumble in the bronx - filmed in toronto What don't you like about it? how cold it'll get in the winter. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Ontario, niagra Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? The west coast,rockies,extreme north,newfoundland

Frayed Knot Jul 01 2010 11:04 AM Re: Canada Day

Clark Gillies - one-time NY Islander star and native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - when asked where one would find Moose Jaw: "about six feet in front of its ass"

Frayed Knot Jul 01 2010 11:22 AM Re: Canada Day

- It's hard to tell a Canadian from an extremely boring regular white person unless he's dressed to go outdoors. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it's rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. It is thought to resemble a sort of arctic Nebraska. It is reported that Canadians keep pet French people, which, if true, is their only interesting trait. At any rate they are apparently able to train Frenchmen to play hockey which is more than any European has ever been able to do. -- from P.J. O'Rourke's "Foreigners Around the World" -- National Lampoon, May 1976

metsguyinmichigan Jul 01 2010 11:37 AM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball players? Ron Taylor and Ken McKenzie Least favorite? Derek Jeter* What do you like about Canada? Rush, currency featuring animals and other countries' figurehead leaders, certain establishments in Windsor**, SkyDome***, The hockey Hall of Fame, cool Mounties uniforms. What don't you like about it? Crossing the border used to be easy, but now it's kind of a pain in the butt. When we first moved here, people would visit and we'd say, "Let's go have lunch in another country." Now, it's sort of a hassle. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Toronto, Windsor, Sarnia, London, Niagara Falls. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Montreal. *Technically he's from Kalamazoo, Mich. But we border on Canada, and that's close enough. **I really can't go into detail, but you'll have to trust me. *** I don't care what they call it now.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 01 2010 11:54 AM Re: Canada Day

I've always been partial to both Larry Walker and Matt Stairs. The older I get, the more partial I get to Matt Stairs. Neither Erik Bedard nor Eric Gagne have tickled my fancy, ever. (Regardless of what those locker-room rumors might intimate.) I like Neil Young, Rush, Wolverine, their anthem, their curling, their exports of funny and sweet back bacon, and their poutine. I don't like their cold, curse them for exporting lacrosse, and I've always found the friendliness a little disquieting (I readily admit that the latter may be largely my problem). Been to Toronto, Windsor and Calgary. Would like to have been to Vancouver (and British Columbia in general) and Montreal.

themetfairy Jul 01 2010 12:08 PM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Jason Bay. Least favorite? Don't have one What do you like about Canada? Its beautiful, clean cities. And that it gets the good UK Cadbury's varieties. What don't you like about it? It's a long drive from here. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, Vancouver, Victoria. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Calgary Victoria, BC is my favorite place in Canada; the Butchart Gardens are absolutely gorgeous. I had an inadvertent underage drinking episode in Quebec. I had been on a French class trip to France in high school, and we often drank cider with dinner; I didn't think anything of it. The following summer my family took a trip to Montreal and Quebec, and I was the only one who could really speak French. So 17-year-old me ordered cider with dinner. The waitress gave me a weird look. "Du cidre, s'il vous plait" I repeated. She came back with my cider. I thought to look at the bottle, and saw that it had a minimal alcohol content (certainly no more than a beer; probably less). So after the fact I figured out that the waitress knew that I was underage (18 was the drinking age at the time, and I always looked young for my age), but that she didn't want to piss off the one person in the group who could speak French, so she brought me the cider.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 01 2010 12:36 PM Re: Canada Day

I should say I've also been to New Brunswick (very briefly) and Nova Scotia. The latter gave us a really excellent vacation including camping on the beach in Digby, a really nice fishing/beach town, and hanging out in Halifax, an old military/shipbuilding city turned happening hipster burg.

G-Fafif Jul 01 2010 12:41 PM Re: Canada Day

themetfairy Jul 01 2010 12:48 PM Re: Canada Day

D-Dad and I spent our third wedding anniversary at the World's Fair in Vancouver in 1986. The U.S. exhibit was all about space travel. Since it was a few months after the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, it was a pretty somber experience....

Edgy DC Jul 01 2010 01:09 PM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Jean Luc Blaquiere, who I may still adopt. Least favorite? That Gagne guy is pretty annoying. What do you like about Canada? Show biz with unpretentious production values. What don't you like about it? With some exceptions, Ms. Dion and Ms. Morissette. Have you been to Canada? I have! Where did you go? Quebec City, Montreal, PEI, and Nova Scotia, where I lay with Kerry Anne in chaste splendor under an August night and saw seven shooting stars before sleep took me. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? It's a big country, but the West. Calgary is a good start.

Rockin' Doc Jul 01 2010 07:28 PM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? I always liked Larry Walker. I like Jason Bay pretty well, but I'd like him better if he would find his power stroke. He's rumored to have one, but you couldn't prove it from his 2010 output. Least favorite? No one specifically comes to mind. What do you like about Canada? Pristine and clean. Beautiful natural scenery. What don't you like about it? Too damn cold during the long, long winters. I'm just a warm weather guy. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Niagara Falls and Toronto. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Montreal, Vancouver, and Banff National Park.

DocTee Jul 01 2010 08:06 PM Re: Canada Day

yes, today is Canada Day. Recently returned from a conference on US-Canadian relations, where one presenter mentioned that the only way to tell the difference between us and them is to make this statement: There is no difference between Americans and Canadians. Apparently, we shrug it off, while our northern neighbors will spout off for hours. Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Justin Morneau Least favorite? Ferguson Jenkins What do you like about Canada? Health care system What don't you like about it? ummm....the dancing natives from the recent Olympic games? Have you been to Canada? Yes. Where did you go? Montreal Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? The Maritimes

Zvon Jul 01 2010 08:46 PM Re: Canada Day Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 01 2010 09:17 PM

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Ken MacKenzie. He was an original Met, and led the staff with a winning record on a team that lost 120 games in 1962. He was 5-4 for the Mets. He was 8-10 for his 6 year career. So he came to the Mets just to shoot his biggest load. Ken is 76 years old and is still pitching. And when I say pitching, I mean dribbling, which is what the way-way northernmost Canadians call "pitching". Least favorite? Pop Smith. He played the infield in the days before baseball gloves, and he loved it. He died on the day I was born, April 18th, but many years before, in 1927. I don't like people who die on the day I was born. It bums me out on a day that I should be in total celebration mode. Pop Smith made the Canadian Baseball Hall Of Fame. Canada has no business having a baseball hall of fame. I don't like that they do. I hold it against Pop Smith. What do you like about Canada? Terence & Phillip What don't you like about it? Its not enough north of us for me. Have you been to Canada? Yep Where did you go? Niagara Falls and the surrounding area. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? To the rest of the place. Pop Smith

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 01 2010 09:14 PM Re: Canada Day

Ah, you shitfaced cockmaster!

MFS62 Jul 01 2010 09:40 PM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? (Mets)Dr. Ron Taylor, with Larry Walker my favorite non-Met Least favorite? Rheal Cormier, who got his only two major league saves against the Mets What do you like about Canada? Universal health care, Shania Twain, genuinely nice people What don't you like about it? They measure home runs in meters, and Celine Dion (really fucking annoying, eh?) Have you been to Canada? yes Where did you go? Montreal, Quebec City and a weird trip to Toronto. I went there with my parents as a kid. Just as we got to the hotel, there was a measels empdemic declared and we got quarentined in the hotel for a week. They lifted the quatantine just in time for us to leave and come home. Never really saw the city. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Vancouver, BC, which is supposed to be beautiful. Maybe Calgary, to see the stampede, too. Later

The Second Spitter Jul 02 2010 04:44 AM Re: Canada Day

Who is/was your favorite Canadian baseball player? Larry Walker Least favorite? Eric Gagné/Matt Stairs What do you like about Canada? The fact I became a Mets fans while I lived there, their women, le Club de hockey Canadien de Montréal, Patrick Roy, Bret "the Hitman" Hart, Vancouver, and maple syrup (in that order). Oh, and the fact they measure HRs in metres. What don't you like about it? Shithouse weather, very few ocean beaches, Tie Domi, Toronto, the realpolitik naivety of most Canadians, watching baseball at Stade Olympique. Have you been to Canada? Yup Where did you go? Lived in Montreal for 9 months while on exchange at McGill, Quebec City, Trois-Rivières, Gatineau, T.O., Barrie, London, Kitchener, Niagara, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Whistler. Where haven't you gone in Canada, but would like to go? Definitely Calgary, Banff National Park, Peggy's Cove, N.S., Prince Edward Island.

Frayed Knot Jul 02 2010 07:56 AM Re: Canada Day

Q: How do you tell the difference between New York and Toronto? A: In New York you take the A train while in Toronto you take the train ay!

metsguyinmichigan Jul 02 2010 08:42 AM Re: Canada Day

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA MSK3K's Canada Song is a classic! But I can't figure out how to post a youtube...

Fman99 Jul 02 2010 09:29 AM Re: Canada Day

I had my bachelor party in Kingston, Ontario, thanks to it's most non-New York-allowed combination of alcohol and full nudity. Fun was had.