Rio de Janeiro 2016!

Some were surprised, but I was not.

Besides, when my dad predicts something to be true, you'd better believe it. And a couple weeks ago, he logically explained why Rio de Janeiro was going to be awarded the games. First of all, they were not going to give Europe consecutive games and it was too closely removed from Beijing for Tokyo to win. And seeing how South America had never hosted before, Rio would beat out Chicago in the end.

Of course, that was not the order in which the vote went down. I was very surprised that Chicago was knocked out first. A lot of analysis have been written on this and I'm not going to go into that here. But let me just say to everybody who blames the President for it, if he hadn't gone to Copenhagen, you would be criticizing him for not doing the very same act that you're criticizing him for doing right now. Know that the President at least tried his best and he was going to get heat, no matter what he did. But he is CERTAINLY NOT RESPONSIBLE for failing to bring the games to Chicago.

As a witness to history being made in 2001 as the IOC awarded the games to Beijing, I can honestly say that I know how the people in Rio feel. It's AWESOME!!!!!! To know that the world will come to YOUR country, to YOUR city, to YOUR neighbourhood, that's an incredible statement. Don't get me wrong, the Olympics do have a lot of flaws in them and thsoe flaws won't get fixed all at once, but the big picture is still pretty luminescent and I certainly look forward to the Olympics whenever they come.

Onto baseball, JP is FINALLY gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did a mini dance in my mind when I read that in the papers on Saturday morning. I believe Mr. Anthopoulos, our new, energetic GM is an experienced man, and he will offer a contrast to the JP philosophy (if he ever had one). It'll be interesting what he does with Roy Halladay. Will have to keep watch on that one.

Twins-Tigers one game playoff should be exciting! Remember last time, Rockies vs. Padres?

My pick for the World Series this year: the New York Yankees.

-D

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