After covering the NHL Strike, I took some time off to spend in a Tibetan monastery called Ganden Monastery in Tibet. it is located at the top of Wangbur Mountain.
With watching the Tomcats and the brotherly love on stage after hockey, I could not help but to try to find that peace and love that the Tomcats have for each other so I studied Buddhism for the past few months. Buddhahood is defined as a state free of the obstructions to liberation as well as those to omniscience. When, in Buddhahood, one is freed from all mental obscurations, one is said to attain a state of continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of emptiness, the true nature of reality. In this state, all limitations on one’s ability to help other living beings are removed, meaning that you can help everyone and that is what I see on the stage. “Hey Killer while you are up, grab me a beer”. And Killer does.
The problem is, I don’t see it on the Kapusta Kow Floor. Everyone is trying to win and I wonder if Stevo and the rest of the Tomcats have it right? Why do they post the winners of the mini tournament each week. Is this really necessary?
I wonder if it would not be better to just say, ‘everyone had fun tonight, everyone Wang Chunged tonight”.
I don’t think it is about winning the tournament is it? I mean you want to do your best, you don’t want to be a goat out there (Speaking of Goat, I have a story to tell you about this pretty goat I had met in Tibet, but that is for another day and I need alcohol in me to tell it in its full detail) but winning on a Tuesday night is not everything, it is after the fact, that I love the Tomcats, when The Rake says, “Hey Chevy during the Donnybrook, it was just for fun, you didn’t have to knee me in the stomach so hard”, that really sets the rest apart from any other night in Windsor.
I do like the three star selection, it gives an award system for those who work hard out on the Kapusta Kow floor. I was surprised that The Falcon, after making save after save after spectacular save, was not selected first star last night, but it was nice to see Cribzie named first star and he indicated it was his first time ever. I noticed he was all a glow as he walked off the stage being the first star, almost taller, it seemed.
Stevo spoke to me after the night was over and said that survey results are pretty much now are all in, with a few exceptions like Mez. Stevo indicated that he is going to compile the information and then do a blog about it in May sometime. “It was interesting to see who does not want to be a Captain in a Mini and who wants to be a Captain in the regular tournament” Stevo had said. Other findings on that topic showed, that the main stay goalies are not interested in being Captains in the Tournament. He did not provide any additional information to me, so I have nothing further to advise you on.
Watch for the ‘What The Tomcats Know’…coming up sometime this weekend.
In the meantime, Heywood Jewblowmee?
Windsor Tomcats 
Let’s not even start with any talk of not keeping score and just playing for the fun of it and being a participant. Leave that to the THCMC’s and their little dweebs on the Essex County soccer pitches prancing back and forth across the field and wimpering about how that nasty soccer ball hurts their toes when they kick it. Perhaps they should switch to Nerf soccer balls so there’s no chance little Taylor or Dakota bruise their lilly white UV sensitive skin.
MAN UP Heywood! First it’s veggies on pizza, then it’s light American beer (an oxymoron in itself) and now let’s just have fun and not keep score. I can’t speak for anyone else, but when I’m out on the Kapusta Kow floor, you’re damned right I want to win. If not, what’s the f’n point? Leave that girly shit for another venue. Tomcats Forever!