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Canine keeps Buehrle's family from Toronto
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08:07 AM ET 02.08 | Mark Buehrle's dog, Slater, landed in the headlines again this past offseason when Toronto acquired the pitcher. Pit bulls are outlawed throughout the province of Ontario, so the Buehrles had three options: 1) They could live across the U.S. border in Niagara Falls or Buffalo, N.Y., and Mark could commute roughly 90 minutes each way to Toronto; 2) They could leave Slater in someone else's care for the entire season; or 3) Jamie Buehrle could stay behind in St. Louis with the rest of the family while her husband heads north to pitch for the Jays. After lots of internal debate and anguish, the Buehrles chose Option 3, which means Mark will spend his 14th big league season in Canada while Jamie lives more than 800 miles.
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Wow, what a huge debacle.
.ChiSoxFan.
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Can't Mitt Romney just smuggle Slater in on the top of his station wagon?
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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Sounds like Mark is really gonna love Toronto. Good luck Jays.
jnorman41
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He didn't seem very welcome in any of his "home" states last november either.
Okay, he won Utah (after denying he lived there for tax purposes, so I don't know if it counts)
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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So, the decision came down to the wife living with her husband or her dog for six+ months. And she chose the dog.
Mark sounds like a real winner here...
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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He didn't want to go there in the first place.
.ChiSoxFan.
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Yep - punish the breed when it's the owners who are dumb as a box of rocks in handling them... Maybe they should of banned the owners from Onterio instead.....
Lex-LOU-thor
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"box of rocks." I like that.
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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They outlawed a breed of dog? Seems rather stupid, especially when I think about honw many pit bulls I've seen that are as sweet as puppies. Buehrle did the right thing here.
Yogi-Zen
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That's the point. I have seen some studies/surveys were Pits are actually one of the milder breeds (when handled appropriately). Another case where the innocent suffer the idiots...
Lex-LOU-thor
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There you can have a whole pack of pit bulls.
.ChiSoxFan.
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There was a rash of attacks by pitbulls in the years leading up to the ban. Maybe it was the "Onterio" owners faults' rather than the nature of the breed, but I haven't heard of many dog attacks in the years since.
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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Banned in Miami too, actually. He lived in a surrounding county that didn't ban them.
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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She choose the dog. Just leave it at that. Sad.
joet
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