Ignorance Is Bliss
In honour of our blog's appearance in the Internet's finest repository of WoW lore and Who's The Boss? episode recaps (hint: we're in the entry for a popular hair treatment; not Dapper Dan), I was looking up various Leafs arcana and came across this:
Toronto Maple Leafs draft picks
It's probably best that a young child can't open her browser and innocently stumble upon the picks of Ware, Thornton, and Convery*. No, they should learn their Leafs lore the way we all did: wafted out on gusts of Export A smoke by bitter old drunks.
It's looking like Back to the Future in Leafs land anyways (according to Working Class Howard, Operation Silver Fox II: Tanned, Rested, and Ready is all but concluded), so be prepared for more outrageously slanted articles like the one from Cox last week about Mike Murphy and "Draft schmaft" (anyone who can provide the actual context for that oft-misused quote wins a Dan Marois rookie card) that conveniently leave out that Fletcher made three or four of the best trades of my lifetime and hired a great coach. Not saying this latest trip in the DeLorean is a great idea, just saying that where the Leafs are going, you don't need roads. Just barf bags.
*Ahhh, Brandon Convery. I was so convinced he would be good. Where did it go wrong? According to Wiki, after being waived by the Kings in '99, he played four years in Switzerland and one in Sweden before retiring. Part of me still believes he just needs a bit more power play time to turn it around.
Wow. I wouldn't have thought at the start of the season that on January 22, the Silver Fox would be the Leafs' GM and Simmons would actually write a good article.
It's like 1993 all over again! Except that Simmons never wrote any good articles then, either. And hey, whatever happened to Cliff Fletcher?
Guys, please take aim at the latest Cox "snoozefest" missive -- I'm not asking for a breakdown, I'm demanding it. It is a five-tool mittenstringing -- petty, illogical, 1967-dropping, mean-spirited and poorly written. A masterpiece!
I concur. On the drive into work I was hoping you guys had not only seen it but had woken up early to write it.
It'll be especially fun since JFJ was fired probably while he was writing the article.
Unfortunate that today was the day - Kim and I are both busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest. We will have something on today's developments (and yes Donny, we will discuss Cox's article, as well as his inanity at today's PC) tonight - but it might be a little late for those back in God's Country.