Re: (TV) #4, Bobby Orr, Is a TV Fan / Lowdown on x-Boston Bruin, Joe Thor nton / Maurice 'The Rocket' Rickard / RE: O' Canada

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

leo, you are certfiable

--- "Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov> wrote:

> Greg,
> 
> >Boston, you a Bruins fan?  
> 
> No, but my younger brother used to have season 
> tickets when Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson were 
> in their prime. 
> 
> According to my brother---who sometimes forces 
> me to watch the Bruins  :>) when I'm at his 
> house--the owner of the team is quite content to 
> not invest any of his money in the team. (I think 
> the last time the Bruins won the Stanley Cup was 
> in 1972[?])  So, until the Boston hockey fans 
> smarten up and stop supporting the franchise in 
> large numbers, year-in-year out no matter what the 
> quality of the players, the owner will never spend 
> what is necessary to construct a championship 
> caliber team. 
> 
> >.... and that trade to the San Jose Sharks really 
> >turned to bite you in the ass.  
> 
> OK--So, do you want to know the lowdown---the 
> real Scoop on why the Boston Bruins traded young 
> Joe Thornton?!?  According to a guy from Lowell, 
> MA, who works in the Bruins' clubhouse, both 
> the Bruins manager and General Manager (Harry 
> Sinden) are hard-asses about loud music being 
> played in the clubhouse after games.
> 
> Despite being warned repeatedly, and fined 
> twice, Joe Thornton, not only constantly 
> blasted Verlaine's, "Cry Mercy, Judge" in the 
> locker room post game, but worse, would 
> sometimes even climb on top of the trainer's 
> table and shout out his analyses of the lyrics 
> of the album, "Adventure", or attempt to convert 
> his teammates to the band's cause.  
> 
> It got so bad, that Bruins management brought 
> in a special Human Resources consultant, who 
> succeeded in convincing the legend himself, 
> Maurice 'The Rocket'/Rhyme Rickard, to fly in 
> to try and pound some sense into Thornton.  
> 
> Maurice tried to convince Joe to trade-in 
> his boom box for an I-pod, but Maurice 
> wasn't his old persuasive self.  Fatherly 
> obligations and the Great Mash Up Contest 
> had taken a heavy toll--so, his closed-door 
> meeting with Joe lasted less than 20 minutes. 
> (But if ever there was a man born to be 
> 'The Masher', it was Maurice Rickard in his 
> prime:  his razor sharp skates, his sticks 
> made from Tulip Poplar trees [also used as 
> timbers in mines]--and none of those 
> girly-man helmets for Maurice.)  
> 
> So, Sinden killed two birds with one stone 
> by trading Joe Thornton to the Sharks: 
> the Bruin's avoided having to resign him  
> at a much higher salary as a 'free agent', 
> and they also got rid of a locker room 
> trouble-maker, which greatly helped to 
> improve the team's morale---until shortly 
> thereafter, when they went into a terrible 
> swoon and lost 11 out of their next 
> 16 games. 
> 
> >To stay on topic, who would Tom cheer 
> >for, the Rangers>or the Islanders?
> 
> That's easy----the Rangers, of course.  
> Tom goes way back with those guys. Back 
> in the late '70s, whenever Television 
> would play at Syncopation in Hartsdale, 
> NY, or My Father's Place in Roslyn, Long 
> Island, if the audience-turnout was small, 
> Tom would have the band play just one set. 
> Then he'd retire to the bar to watch the 
> Rangers on tv while downing Molson's and 
> Canadian club between smokes. 
> 
> With every record label a let down
> Every idol a bring down
> It gets Tom down.
> But his search for perfection
> His own predilection
> Goes on and on and on and on
> (But still no album release).
> Canadian club, Love
> A place in the country
> It's Tom's contract ideal.
> 
> >If one is a Sharks fan you are likely 
> >a >Canadian / Canadien / but not a leafs 
> >fan ex-patriate.
> 
> Greg, you succeeded in totally confusing 
> me, and making my brain hurt---I'll need 
> definitely need a non-hockey player to 
> explain that one to me. (I was torn out 
> by the roots and laid out to dry; my head 
> is spinning, my, oh my!
> 
> ----------------------------Original Message-----
> From: tv-owner@obbard.com On Behalf Of grntg
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:02 AM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: O' Canada / RE: (TV) O Mi Amore chorus?
> 
> 
> Bonjour Leo,
> Saskatchewan, and it's about 10 degrees celcius (not
> sure what that is in F, 37 or 38 perhaps).  Have not
> had freezing tempertures for about 3 weeks and there
> is no snow.  Sadly, I cannot take my kids
> toboganning
> (sledding in American, or the manly art of
> man-sledging UK style) and the outdoor rinks all
> melted so we can't go skating or play hockey.  No
> worries, I still play hockey in the indoor complexes
> 2
> x per week (as it is a mandatory requirement for
> being
> Canadian ..
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