Well, the first captain's meeting is in the books for this year. It was fairly uneventful. Minutes are of course available (or soon will be) on the league website as per normal.
We recapped the AGM. Talked about some of the significant dates for the coming year. Again, all are available on the website. There was a status provided on registration. Currently, (this was written March 1st and will have undoubtedly changed) we had 70 people register online. Jason Bowers was the first to register at 12:04am on the morning registration opened. This of course ended Rob Farah's 3 year run as the "first to register". I would say Rob is a tiny bit bitter about it, he even cried a little. Truth be told, they were big manly tears.
Rob was second to register, or as Jason calls it, "first among all the losers". I can see Jason is going to be tough to play against this year!
We also said good-bye to four captains, Dave McKendrick and Bob Vienneau (from the Torn Ligaments) and Anthony Mrasek and Ed Vonda (from The Wild). Some may be back as players....we'll wait and see. Anyway, there will be more on these folks in a future BLOG.
We then said hello to some new captains. Bear in mind, this will depend on registration numbers, but the next folks in the queue are Jens Lepa, Steve DeLand (I'm unsure of the team name, so I'll wait before screwing it up like I did to the Beer Bros. last year) and Tim Schrank and Jason Bowers (Tap Masters - a name decided through a poll right here on the BLOG - Yay!)
More on these 4-clowns later. I haven't been able to fillet new captains yet, so I'm looking forward to this experience. More importantly, I'm now #23 in experience among captains! I'm climbing up the seniority ranks! Look out Laird and Candy, I'm on my way. I still have the least baseball aptitude among captains though. (as was kindly pointed out....read the next paragraph)
Other than that, we had the usual assortment of sarcastic barbs for the usual sarcastic captains. I don't want to center Hugh out - that wouldn't be fair - so I'll just say there were 'general' comments. By the way, if anyone finds the rest of Mr Armstrong would you let him know? Only about 75% of the guy I remember from last year showed up at the meeting. He's fading away to nothing.
Lastly, if you haven't already done so, please go to the Tottenham Oldtimers Facebook Page (by clicking the highlighted words behind this) and click "LIKE". This will provide you with on-the-fly information about the league and has proven to be a very beneficial communication tool for both league and non-league matters over the past few months. Jamie McClean and Jeff Dancey are regular contributors, but there are a number of others who also post there. (note to Rob McCarron, "Facebook" is an alternate name for "The Face File")
Now....the first real fun of spring............
INTRO
(Ahhhhh....technology. As I sit here in Florida soaking up the sun and drinking something fruity...here is a BLOG for you folks left in The 'Ham to enjoy!!! 18 days until the draft!!!)
And so ends the Championship off season!
Man, it was a wicked tour. The party after the Championship game was a bit of drunk up though. I managed to save the receipt. We all went back to the Legion (strange but true). All the Grisslies, a bunch of Cleats and assorted other players. We spent a bomb! By the way.....Sallustio still owes me for a diet coke!!! The fact that I got stiffed with this bill was like a Todd Bertuzzi sucker punch!
Yeah...you'd think that would be it .... but no! Then came Rob Farah locking himself in the posh Grisslie Estates for 4 days and producing one of last years most talked about literary works. Of course you all remember....
Oh, the lessons we all learned from this book. I know that Paul Hargreaves, Rob McCarron and Chuck Cragg quote from it regularly. In fact, Danny Chiasson's inspirational Facebook updates are often directly from these pages.
Well, you can't write a book without a tour, so Rob hit the road. First was the Leno appearance, followed by Letterman and then Rob said "screw it. I don't like being off my street, they can come to me." Yep, that's Rob!
I have to say, that from that point on the off-season went a little crazy.
Dave Argue toured the middle east with a National Geographic film crew. In typical "contradiction" fashion he disputed everything the film crew said and ultimately left in a huff. Then came word that The David was no longer so fond of his "contradiction" nickname. Well, we'll work hard to find something appropriate for this two time Grisslie.
"For Those About To Rock" gained instant acclaim with his nickname and was added to the roster of Farm-Aid 2011 last fall. It was quickly discovered that he actually couldn't sing or play an instrument, but that didn't stop him from getting on the cover of RockStar magazine!
Friggin' Brad Pitt, jumping in front of my photo op. I hate that guy!
Bob Smith parlayed his new found fame into an honorary degree from UofT and followed it up with a stint through the winter as a professor of Quantum Baseball Mechanics. Fortunately, the students at UofT are more into brownies than they are into actual physics so no one noticed that weren't learning a heck of alot.
Rob Hayward was approached by a new firm called "Bill-a-thong" that had new remote control underwear which is operated at a molecular level. Rob initially thought that he was signing a lucrative contract to be part of a 'think tank' within the scientific community. However, it turned out that they were looking for an underwear model. He gladly accepted the money anyway.
Hip-hop-hurray, ho, hay, ho!!! Rob Farah's lyrics/speeches are legend in the hip-hop community. He has reworked Eminem lyrics 5 times alone, to say nothing of his shots at Jay-Z, Young MC and MC Hammer. The Champ is now teaching young suburban children how to rap. Stop....Farah time!
No one had any more immediate success than did Catfish Hunter. He had a brief guest shot on The Simpson's playing Bart's smart-ass half brother and it blossomed into a recurring role. Of course, he will long be remembered for his catch-phrase, "we all stand in a buffalo stance, try to beat us and you got no chance."
Not to be outdone, Dave Doucette (DCMT) latched onto the cartoon theme and created his own Cartoon show staring himself. You can watch it everyday on TV-O from 3:00-3:30. Its on before Caillou and after Arthur. Its based on a rookie ball player who teaches life lessons to children through hard work and business cards. Its quite compelling.
Gord Robinson became an Internet Mogul with the development of a new online music program. Gord-o, never one to miss an opportunity, realized that there was a huge market out there of seniors with old and under performing PCs. So Gord developed Old-ster which is like Napster but only works on 286 PCs that boot from floppy discs. SWEET!!! The thing that really made this a money making hit was that it only allows downloads of Queen songs.
The Fresh Prince of Pointe-Claire, was approached immediately after the season by Model Magazine. As someone who is so obviously 'cover-material', it took a little sweetening of the pot for Stephane to finally submit to having his picture displayed. But when they threw in a free trip to Pottageville (because it sounds French), the deal was done!
Was there a doubt? Mickey has a certain Je ne sais quoi when it comes to the ladies. Sure....he's a playah. Smooth like butter, voice like Barry White, hot like a pistol, killer pick up lines like vertical and moves like Jagger. Playah's got game. Of course, once he was exposed in the magazine above, that was the end of the game.
When Fashion Icon needed to display their fall fashions, no one else was really in consideration when Popeye was willing to go. Rocking the shirt from the Toronto Maple Leafs last playoff drive (its 10 years old), this edition of Fashion Icon outsold all previous releases.
2 comments:
I am sure going to miss this team.
I guess you'll just have to draft us all again.....BTW are our rings ready yet??
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