By Harry Ballsonue
Stevo is wearing a black suit, white dress shirt and a tie with some faded greens and golds. Rocky is wearing a black suit with a white dress shirt and orange and light orange shades in his tie. Both look like G-Man, as the press conference is about to start….
“First of all, thanks to everyone for being here this morning…..” Stevo starts off.
“The Board of Directors met and even though it was my intention to step down as President of the Tomcats, I have been asked to stay on for another 1 to 2 years and enter, as the Board calls it, ‘a transition phase”, with Rocky becoming the Vice President and CEO of the Windsor Tomcats.” Stevo continues, “Hollywood, my dear Brooozzer, will remain on the Board of Directors, but is no longer the Vice President.”
Rocky indicated, “I am very happy that Stevo is remaining as the President, the entire board hates the thought of Stevo stepping down. I will gladly assume my new role as Vice President and CEO and do what is needed. I think Stevo will always be ‘The President’ in my books.”
As one insider indicated, when they found out Stevo was to remain the President, “Ahh…No one wants to be in his shadow when he is still playing. Stevo must leave the game before a successor takes over, or Rocky must kill him first. It’s like the Game of Thrones.”
Razor was extremely passionate when it came to Stevo remaining as President…“I love that guy, I think he should stay as President, and his idea of delegating is a good one, if he does that and remains on, then perfect!”
Present at the meeting: Kamikaze, Sparky, The Turk, Rocky, Snowpants,, Soupy, Zaba, Sunny, Razor, Rake, Doc, Chico and Stevo. Security provided by Big Ned. Catering provided by Lady Alex.
Highlights
• $40 to remain cost at the start of the season, $5 each night (Unless the hall rental goes up)
• Start of the season gift, to be organized by Doc and Razor, looking at a ball cap
• Financial picture shows Tomcats are at $600 in the coffers
• Captains for next year’s major tournament : Doc, Rake, Chico, Sparky
• Tournament is Saturday February 28, 2015
• Twitter: Chico has set up a Twitter account and will be responsible for it
• When two teams playing, Soupy is main ‘team maker’ and Rocky is the back up
• Out Door game set for April 28, 2015
• New Blooger Hired, The Hockey Puck Poet will write a blog every second week
• Part Timers, Sheep Dog, Tunes, Kamikaze and Flintstone to remain part time and will not start at the start of next season, will be called up ‘as required’.
• Falcon to assist Rocky in Web site up dates. (Rocky to bring Falcon aboard and provide training)
• Beer list is now the responsibility of Soupy
• Christmas Present to be decided upon by Rocky
• Christmas Party is November 28, 2014 and Chevy, Sunny and Snowpants are in charge of the party
• Charity Committee formed, Chico to head it up, $10 to be collected for hockey from each player in the month of November and March
• Rocky to be reimbursed for the Web Site cost
• Vice Presidency: Hollywood to remain on the Board of Directors but no longer Vice President
• Clothing for Christmas party – NO Tomcat tee shirts or Sweat Pants, YOU MUST wear proper business casual attire
• Next Year’ Board of Directors Meeting will be once again opened up to every Tomcat member.
• Venue for next year’s meeting still to be established
New Business……Highlights
• “Best group of guys I’ve ever been involved with” ~ Chico
• Chico is the new Minister of Charities and will be forming committee to give money to a charity of the committee’s choice
• Snowpants suggested during the summer months that ‘Minx of the Month’ be posted, with tid bits of information about them
• Sunny asks that everyone try to be on time as it is a 6:30 start. In a mini, the Captain will NOT be allowed to move from being a B team on the schedule to a C team, if guys that he drafted are not there, and his team has the first game, that team starts their game with full team or short of players…
• Zaba will be organizing a trip to Columbus to watch the Leafs. Date to be looked into once NHL Schedule released Zaba wants everyone to go!
• Dom Polski, due to the fact that we did not go to Dom Polski, this year, the Tomcats will attend Dom Polski one night this year instead of going to Purples and Dom Polski will always be the venue for libations after the outdoor game.
In the end, last year ran very smoothly and the Tomcats thank everyone for their vested interest and deep participation.
Next event is the Tomcat vs Minx Volleyball (May 31st) and then the Tomcat golf outing, June 13 at Seven Lakes.
Season to start September 16, 2014
Tomcats Forever!