TORONTO

We can't even win the title of most miserable sports city, Toronto.

The 10 and 3 sports blog has named Toronto the second most-miserable sports city in North America. Hogtown placed second behind Cleveland but ahead of New York City, Houston and Minneapolis, according to the sports website.

The site pointed out the Toronto Blue Jays haven't won a World Series since 1993, the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967 (and haven't won a playoff series since 2004) and that the Toronto Raptors have never won an NBA championship.

Mayor John Tory pretended to be miserable when he was asked about the dubious distinction.

"What's your point?" Tory snapped.

After the laughter died down, Tory stressed he's a Toronto sports fan and won't giving up cheering for the city's teams.

"I love all of our sports teams and I want them all to do well," he said. "I'm very optimistic that the Raptors are doing pretty well and the Blue Jays are off to not a bad start - a little bit of a slip-up (Wednesday) night.

"Having said all that, I actually believe that not only are the sports teams important to having the kind of life we'd like to have as a big, exciting city but it is important to the psychology of the city in a way, it is not huge but I think that it is important."

Tory said he believes "the people who run these sports enterprises are doing their very best to try and do better."

"It has been like a sort of 40-year exercise, people have great patience, the fans have, but it is frustrating to live here if you're a sports fan because our teams historically haven't done very well," he said.

"I'm a glass half full guy so I hope things will get better."