‘In my own words’ (Harry Palm Press):

‘No’ Ghost writer names, ‘otherwise known as’ stuff, synonyms/homonyms, identifiers or any other ‘shenanigan’s’. This is just ‘me’, and from ‘me’.

Another year has ‘sadly’ come to an end and I don’t know about you, but I’m ‘already’ counting the days till the next season begins.

There has been no other place a guy that simply wants to play some ball hockey can be more accepted or welcomed; and ‘welcoming’ comes even easier if you bring a 24 – cause well Tomcats are an easy group to bribe with a good ‘bottle’, or two….

Tomcat nation features some ‘truly’ exceptional players, balanced out well with the rest of us ‘week end warriors’. The typical Tuesday season ‘algorithm’, despite its detractors, has been pretty dead on. Hell even this tourney; despite some ‘first time’ Captains resulted in pretty tight games. Now if we can only get the ‘Sparky’ time clock back…..

I also think moving the tourney to the ‘last’ day of the regular seasons was a ‘big hit’; but lets consider ‘moving’ back the start time….some of us just ‘aren’t’ used to getting up soooo early & ‘getting right to work’

In ‘other’ tournament ‘first’, a VERY RARE trade was finalized with little time to spare. ‘Rumours’ have it the trade ‘might’ have included some ‘beer’. Would you expect ‘anything’ else from a Tomcat?

Speaking of the tournament, think of how it ‘started’ : Captains Skippy and Rocky taking a brief moment to exchange team shirts. Luck of the draw may have had the two ‘start’ the tradition; but each new game featured ALL Captains making a shirt exchange – ‘CLASSY’.

Tourney results? Probably ‘fated’ when Killer went down and wasn’t able to play. If you believe in ‘fate’ or karma; then it comes as NO surprise the Killers took it all – never once looking like they lost a step
and Killer, (Seen sporting some fresh bandages to his wound), was able to come out and happily embraced his team upon their ‘most’ important Championship game ‘win’.