Welcome Bruce. This is a fun place. We look forward to your perspectives. Now here’s an analytical question for you: Monica, Rachel or Phoebe? (new guys get asked this as an initiation rite. I didn’t understand the question, way back, because I’m the token foreigner around here – and because I don’t watch much TV)

How about those Expos!!! Gotta love ‘em. They have the lowest payroll in MLB (I think), they play home games on the road, they play their “real” home games in a giant toilet bowl, nobody comes to see them – and yet they play with guts and pride and are currently 1.0 game out in the NL wildcard race.

Phillip you wrote: “I may learn to like a frog canuck after all, something I never thought would happen” (emphasis yours). Thanks for the endorsement – really. Now I would really like to explore your (oft stated) surprise at liking someone (me) of my particular ethnic/cultural background. Why so surprised? I’m curious – really! Why do you expect to dislike French Canadians/Quebecers? Was it a bad experience in the past? Some stereotype? I’m not trying to start an argument! I’m really interested.