Has there ever been a worse time in the history of the Toronto sports scene?

I've been following Toronto sports since childhood and I can't ever remember a time like this.

Even in the 1980s when the Toronto Maples Leafs were brutal, the Toronto Blue Jays were building towards the championships they won in the early 1990s. After the Jays started to struggle in the late 1990s the Leafs had some good years during the Pat Quinn regime.

What's happening these days?

Every Toronto team stinks. And I don't mean they stink as in: "Here's another year of exits in the first round of the playoffs."

They are all wretched. Horrible. Awful. Brutal. Terrible. If I was prone to hyperbole I could say more.

The state of professional sports in Toronto has never been worse.

The Toronto Argos are awful and just hired an assistant coach from the NFL with no CFL experience.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are awful. They will miss the playoffs for the fourth straight season (five if you count the season wiped out by the lock out) and have very little hope for the future.

The Toronto Blue Jays are an embarrassment. Their divisional opponents have been throwing around money freely this off-season. The Jays? Well, they've sat on their hands and have done nothing - despite being owned by our country's largest and most successful multi-faceted communications company.

The Toronto Raptors? They were supposed to be the one Toronto team that offered hope this season. Nobody expected the Raptors to be the Boston Celtics or LA Lakers, but most looked at their team and saw a decent roster capable of making the playoffs and perhaps winning a round. Alas, the Toronto curse has hit the Raptors too. They stink. Their season is a train wreck. The coach has been fired and the franchise could possibly lose its franchise player Chris Bosh at the end of next season.

Some might say I'm being a pessimist. They might be right. Sports can be cyclical. It's rare in any sport that a city's teams are good every single year. Teams have ups and downs.

But I'm not so sure in Toronto's case. Frankly, I don't even think Barrack Obama could bring hope to the sports fans in Toronto.

But there is a bright side to losing. The Chicago Cubs are famous for being "Lovable Losers." Maybe Toronto can increase its tourism and help its economy by marketing itself as "The Worst Sports City in North America."