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Jeremy must be about ready to shoot himself. I feel for my friend. In fact, I feel for most of Canada. (Not so much Quebec, though.)

Canada, allow me to welcome you into the world of over-hyped, over-paid, and over-confident athletes! It’s painful at first, but you’ll get used to it. It appears that our “we deserve it” attitude seems to have seeped across the border into Canada unawares. This was purely unintentional.

Of course, you do have some responsibility in the matter. You wanted a MLB franchise. You wanted a NBA franchise. You wanted a NHL franchise. In the process, we introduced you to the public persona equivalent of a crack addict - Male Professional Athletes!!!

We even got Gretzky to the dark side! Folks will counter that this is the least of punishments for a country that gave us Celine Delon. I, on the other hand, deem this way to heavy a punishment. Heck, we stole your silver medal in Ice Dancing. (While we are sorry about that, we’re not sending Tanath Belbin back. She’s the most gorgeous creation on the planet. Next to Amy, of course. What was I talking about again?)

Oh, yeah….professional athletes. Well, here’s to the next Olympics. The good news is that you have near the travel expenses to watch your professional athletes do a complete meltdown.

Now if you will excuse me, Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick are arguing again. Maybe it’s the skates?