By Harry Ballsonue
Happy New Year to all my faithful readers and a super Happy New Year to all the Windsor Tomcats, I love covering you guys and in my opinion it is the best sports beat to be on….eat my shorts Damien Cox of the Star, Steve Simmons of the Sun and Brooksie of the New York Post…..the Tomcats are where it is at.
My favourite memory of 2011, Razor singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Stevo in his Marilyn Munroe voice…very funny…..still waiting for someone to give approval of that video to be put on the Tomcat Web site…can you say “one million hits on youtube”?
Moving on the to Tomcat Skip Jacks game, what I am hearing is that the Tomcats have almost formalized their roster for the January 22 game against the Sandwich Town Skipjacks. Names I hear that are going are roughhouser, Doc, and the Tasmanian Devil Killer. Captaining the squad will be Sparky because Junior will not be in the line up. That means that assistant captain Hollywood will be going and management is giving Lovie an A for the game. Classy move by a classy organization. I am also hearing that the goaltenders attending the game will be the Falcon and Bearcat and that the Tomcats have decided to leave the Wiley veteran net minder Razor at home. Not sure who will get the start in net.
I am also hearing other notables not attending are May Day, Cribz, Stevo and Zaba.
Franchise player Sunny will be there along with his cousin Soupy. Goal scoring machine Hurricane is also going. Tomcats are pretty tight lipped about who else they are sending, but when I spoke to Hurricane he indicated, “We will need some goals that night, so there is no way they would be leaving me behind. I can’t comment on who else is going, but let me say this, there is no one else with my scoring abilities going except for maybe Sunny and Lovie”. a very humble Hurricane had said.
On Defense the only names I have heard as going so far are Rocky and the Rake.
Tomcats are not sending Junior or Crow to Sandwich Towne, but Lovie will be there wearing an A.
Game time is 7 p.m. at the Skip Jack Arena located at 4007 Sandwich Street in Sandwich Towne. January 22.
“We are very excited to be playing this game against the Tomcats”, stated an openly emotional Skippy, “The proceeds of the money collected will go to charity. It should be a great night of hockey and having this game played is just a tremendous, tremendous moment in my hockey career. I was too young to watch the 1972 Canada – USSR Series, with the likes of Ken Dryden and Tony Esposito and Brad Park, Don Awrey, Frank Mahovolich, Bobby Clarke and of course of Paul Henderson…all no doubt playing for the Tomcats and then the Sandwich Towne Skipjacks, with me, Tretiak, and Ragulin, Gusev, Kharlamov, Maltsev, Shardrin and of course Yakushev. If this works out well, maybe we can play this game, every four years like the Olympics or the world cup of soccer”, stated a crying Skippy.
CBC Sports will be covering the game.
The St. Felix is now out and available on this site for you to review. Stories about the Pizza Master and Spinner crack me up, even if I do say so myself.
Tomcat Fever is alive and well in 2012.
And hey, during the Skip Jacks game, maybe when you are not looking, I’ll put my Harry Ballsonue!
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