Geddy Lee was a guest on the CBC's Hanomansing Tonight yesterday evening to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays heading to the World Series with game 1 tonight in Toronto. Geddy has been rooting on the Jays from his seats behind home plate all throughout the playoffs, and he'll be at tonight's game as well. Geddy also spoke a bit about Rush's upcoming tour and new drummer Anika Nilles:

... it was a very difficult decision to go back on the road, and that was the main stumbling block, obviously. How do we replace the irreplaceable, so to speak? And we have been fortunate to have been introduced to the name Anika Nilles through one of my road crew - my bass tech Skully, who was on tour with Jeff Beck, and she was the drummer for Jeff Beck on his last tour. And he came home from that tour raving about her. And so when we made the decision to see what it's like to play with another drummer, we contacted her, and she's just a fantastic person. And she came to Canada and we very surreptitiously snuck into a studio and worked out for about a week. And by the end of it, we were convinced that this would be a go for us. Yeah, she's just a tremendous player."... When [Anika] first came over here [to Canada], we started playing some of the songs, trying to translate RUSH music to someone who didn't really grow up as a RUSH fan; she was not a RUSH fan. She knew, of course, of Neil's playing - every drummer knows who Neil is, or Neil was, I should say - so it was a bit of a daunting task. And we had to go through each song and explain the nuances of the song and the idiosyncratic nature of how our songs are put together. So at times she was a bit overwhelmed, but she's an incredibly hard worker. She's got great technical facility and she's just got a really positive attitude, and that's really good for Alex and I to be around right now." ...

You can watch the entire interview below or on YouTube. There's also this short interview with the Canadian Press where Ged fanboys about the Jays' World Series berth.