The Blue Jays’ American manager is cheering for Canada in the Olympics
Now this is the kind of treason we can get on board with
Sometimes competitive sports make people say and do strange things, and other times they present an opportunity to have a refreshingly correct opinion.
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Today, we have an example of the latter. John Schneider, the Toronto Blue Jays’ manager, told reporters that even though he’s American, he’s cheering for the Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team at the Milano Cortina games.
“I want them to win, not the US,” he said. “I don’t like US hockey. I think Canada has the best hockey in the world, so I want Canada to win the Olympics.”
We’d offer to trade Tate McRae in exchange for making him an honourary Canadian, but Team Canada has already given him his own jersey, so he’s pretty much there.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
