Chipper Jones hates Toronto

Don’t expect Toronto mayor David Miller to hand ballplayer Chipper Jones the key to the city any time soon.


The Atlanta Braves third baseman wasn’t exactly selling the city as a tourist destination this week while attending the World Baseball Classic as a member of Team USA.

“Just way too many days off,” he said to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We stayed in Toronto for a week and played three games. I don’t know if you ever stayed in Toronto, but it’s not exactly Las Vegas. To say that we were plucking our eyebrows out one at a time would be an understatement.”

Jones, who has never managed to play a full 162-game schedule in any of his 14 major league seasons, strained an oblique muscle during the tournament and has since left the American club to join the Braves at spring training for treatment.

The sour grapes didn’t stop with Toronto.

Jones told the newspaper there’s far too many days off between games, and if the format doesn’t change, he won’t play again.

“There’s some serious problems with the WBC setup,” said Jones, who will skip the rest of the tournament. “I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. But I wouldn’t do it again under the current format. There’s way too many days off. This tournament could be over by now.”

The 2008 National League batting champ went 0-for-10 with six strikeouts in three games for Team USA.

Complaining about having too many days off? not having anything to do?? If you can't find something to do in Toronto, there is something wrong with you.

Have you heard of The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Royal Ontario Museum, Casa Loma (I love that place) the CN Tower, The entire entertainment district, All of our restaraunts (foods from all over the world can be found here) I could keep going and going.... Nothing to do in Toronto? What are you talking about???