Jian Ghomeshi was turfed by CBC, who let him go by issuing a three-sentence release on a Sunday afternoon. Ghomeshi responded by suing the network for $50 million.
Ghomeshi's statement on his Facebook page is quite something. IF - a big if - he has told the entire truth, CBC is in a pile of trouble. $50 million apparently represents five per cent of their allocation money.
However, my guess is there's something missing. Maybe he mostly told the truth but left stuff out. Maybe he is lying entirely.
No one can form an informed opinion until we hear both sides. We have only heard the woman's side through Ghomeshi. It would be wrong to blindly support him when we don't have the other side.
If any sort of abuse happened here, then CBC obviously made the right call.
But some of the comments about him on twitter are also out of place. I saw one person that called him a "rapey f***". That's mere speculation. We have no idea what happened, and we don't even know what the allegations are yet.
To support one side or the other before the truth comes out makes no sense.
I think it will be a bitter, ugly, public fight.
Edit: There are now nine women claiming Ghomeshi abused them, with two of them allowing their names to be printed. Pretty hard to defend Ghomeshi at this point.
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Later today came the news of the death of Oscar Taveras, and his girlfriend, in a car accident in the Dominican. The 22-year-old Cards outfielder was one of the brightest up-and-comers in the game and came up big in Game 2 of the NLCS.
These things are always hard to take. We can only imagine what he would have achieved in the majors.
Hard not to think that if the Cards had won the NLCS, he'd still be here.
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Meanwhile, the Toronto Sun (who else) ran one of the most hateful political cartoons I think I've ever seen. It depicts mayoral candidate Olivia Chow in a Chairman Mao outfit, with slanted eyes and glasses, literally riding the coattails of Jack Layton's suit.
Needless to say, someone who spent 14 years as a city councillor and eight years as an MP is not riding anyone's coattails. If anyone is riding coattails, it's the Ford brothers.
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In my hockey simulator program (Eastside Hockey Manager) I've begun a new game. It's too easy to win in this game so I've set myself two rules:
1) The roster has to be made up entirely of players who weren't born in the Big 7 hockey countries (Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia). So I'm looking for guys born in Switzerland, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovenia, etc.
2) I have to build entirely through the draft. No trades or free agent signings. Which means my entire roster is made up of teenagers.
My team won one game in the first year, with a 1-81 record. In the second year, they went winless and pointless. Just started the third season.
The only bright spots so far are Latvian centre Zemgus Girgensons, Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz and Swiss defenceman Nino Bieler.
Last year, the team scored 26 goals all season. 26!! Girgensons led the team in scoring with eight points.
I estimate it will take 37 years to make the playoffs.
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