It's Spring. Roll Up the Rim has come and gone (and I'm a Big Winner -- won a coffee!!!), Ignatieff has once again poked his head up, read the polls, and declared, "six more weeks of Stephen Harper", and a young Canadian man's fancy turns to... "the most difficult, punishing, draining, exhilarating chase in sports."

We're talkin':

a) the Tour de France?

b) the Iron Man Triathalon?

c) the World Series?

d) The Stanley Cup Playoffs -- you know, "penalty-killing", "sudden-death", playing on a broken leg, would trade three Blue Jays World Series wins for one Toronto Maple Leafs championship, that sort of thing

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Let the games begin!