#joeyseries

I am not a super sports fan, don’t get crazy, I like sports, and keep up with my teams when I have the time. I’m not the “band wagon” sports fan, I have my team/teams in each sport I am a fan of. Those who know me, know that I am a Yankees fan when it comes to baseball. Yes I live in Toronto, and have been here since the age of 11, and now i’m in my 30′s, so what! 

Family vacations to NY before moving there at a young age, made me a New Yorker, and my love for the city remains to this day. In NY, you are either a Mets fan or Yankees fan. My late father promised me a Mets hat and jacket when I was kid, it never came, so from then I wanted nothing to do with the Mets. 

What does any of this have to do with Jose Bautista and his new collaboration with Silver Jeans co.?  Everything and nothing at the same time.

Here I am breaking my selfie rule for a photo with Jose, while covering the event for Fajo Magazine. I’m wearing a Jays hat, oh the trouble i’m in with fellow Yankee fans lol. (Random fact; I purchased Jay’s hats prior to going to Cuba, as I was advised my Yankees gear would not be well received given the relationship at that time with the US.)   I did mention to Jose while chatting that I am a Yankees fan, but I do feel that he and the Jays will bring home a championship. 

Not there to talk much about sports, the focus was on Jose’s launch of his collaboration with Silver jeans Co, but there was not a person in the room who could ignore the well deserved respect for what Jose and the Jays are doing on the field. I have not admired the Jay’s since the Joe Carter, Roberto Alomar days, and the energy in the city right now reminds me of those days.