Loser

Every so often, I go on a rant about the teams I root for, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Blue Jays. I've been supporting both these teams since I was a young child growing up in the Toronto suburbs. The majority of that time has been pretty frustrating. The Jays were a true contender from 1985-1993, winning the World Series in '92 and '93; since then, they've pretty much sucked. But my favorite team, the Leafs, haven't won anything since the year I was born, 1967. They haven't even come close. The closest they came was in 1993, when they came within a game of going to the Stanley Cup finals but lost to Wayne Gretzky and the LA Kings. In recent years, they've really struggled and this year is the worst of all.

I just watched them play Carolina, the team with the worst record in the league (the Leafs have the second worst record). Toronto had a 3-0 lead after the first period, a 4-2 lead in the third before the Canes came back and tied the game, and then scored with 29 seconds left to make it 5-4. Game's in the bag, right? Carolina scores with 3 seconds left to send it to OT. The game goes to a shootout. Carolina scores easily on its first two shots, the Leafs fail to score on their two shots. Game over, 6-5 Carolina.

The Leafs have exactly three wins in their first 20 games. They're on pace for 12 freakin' wins. And they traded away their first-round pick next season. It's just bad.

Since Universal won't allow embedding of the original video of Beck's "Loser," thought I'd go with this interesting take: