On The Sly

I just finish the men's long program & boy are the rants still there but that's for another time.
W wants me to be part of his team? Not to pat myself on the back but would common sense & the Commom Council be compatable? If I were fortunate enough to serve under W I'd like two posts. The first would be the special projects manager. You know, cutting down "pine trees", backward parking, roundabouts, etc. I wouldn't ask for a salary just a big rubber stamp, "ARE YOU NUTS-DENIED".
My primary position would be in charge of one-way streets, stop signs, traffic light timing & pot hole maintanence. There is not enough one-way streets & stop signs, too many traffic lights that still aid in traffic flow & do I have to even mention pot holes? YES! I would extend the repair time from four weeks until early fall. They could be done by the same crew that stripe the streets. Cost savings Mr. Mayor! Well W? Is this insight or what?

Okay, are you happy now? Between the media coverage on the latest Olympic athlete been caught on "drugs" and you questioning what really is a Olympic sport you've got me in a rant mood.
Two Olympians have been sent home lately because "they didn't know" that their over-the-counter medicine had banned substances in them. Oh come on, give me a break! Didn't know? Your trainer didn't know? That's his job. Fire him! Your coach didn't know? That's his job. Fire him! Better yet, ban the coach & trainer also.
Or better yet. Let's do away with dope testing. After all we don't watch a professional level athlete compete all the while thinking, is he doping, is he training without taking risks with his health. No sir, we want to see performance whether it's hit one out of the park, returning a punt for 99 yards or hitting a drive off the tee 350 yards.
Let them dope! It's not a secret that doping isn't good for your body. It's like smoking. Duh! It's a no brainer. Professionals wrestlers, NBA players and even college jocks are dying from doping. Give them their day in the sunshine.
P.S. Just kidding. I'm a purist when it comes to sports. It's just like getting caught stealing home, you're out of there!

More ranting later. Ice dancing is on now.

Hey, “W” how’d you know about Forest and me? I ran with the real Forest Gump back in the 70’s before I embarked on my Broom-Ball career, not Tom Hanks playing him, but “that’s all I’ve got to say about that.” You remind me of another good friend, OZ, the wizard. He did most of his work from behind a curtain. Did you say you were running for King- I didn’t know that was an elected position. Carver, I left out names in hopes of getting some of the ‘good-ole-boys’ into the game with us- you make some great points. How about Grouse hunting as an Olympic sport?
We could use this blog as our chat room, just like the kids of today - who needs that Instant Messaging stuff anyway.

Ah...W's back..we were all concerned since last we knew you were huntin in Texas! Ya kinda gave us the willys...your cabinet is hittin close ta home, but you're way off base on a few! better call in the experts ..where's "the Donald" when ya need em, and Blunder ..you'd make for a heck of a campaign manager.. Oh and the Olympics.. they're embarrassing, the pride of the US is long gone. Bye Bye Bode. And Hawk how could you mention broomball without mentioning "Japper" Jim Morrow and the O'Connell bros. "crusher and TO" .. Goose you're right on (as always)..except its now "O Can-ada" for me.

I’ve got good & bad news from the campaign trail, I’ve found my first supporter, but he wants more than I can afford for his vote. I decided to get a part time job to pay for it and thought I could land one of those cushy high-paying teaching positions at the high school. When I proposed teaching an Anger Management class the Administrators got mad at me and kicked me out. I then asked Foxy if I could be put on staff and write about Political Correctness or Gender-Based blogging and he indicated there was no need for it because it doesn’t exist in a blog. Then Stevie Blunder came up with this FHOC director. I wonder if it pays as much as the Mayor’s job. I know there must be some graft and corruption if it’s connected with the Olympics so I’m in. If that Skeleton guy can claim his hair blew off, and he had to use that masking drug for regeneration, I’m sure we can come up with an angle to win. Maybe we can introduce blogging as an Olympic sport. In either positon I’ll need a cabinet, and everyone’s invited.

Tom, the hawk can be my statistician as long as he doesn’t claim he was a runner with Forest Gump back in the 70’s. “J” can be my news analyst as well as campaign manager since he has such ‘insight’. The Carver, sounds like a peculiar golf shot, can be my historian and chef and CASE out all the good bars and dining places we could frequent. Forget the tail-gating we’re going first class. Foxy and Goose will be our main competitors or fall guys. If we go to the Olympics we could use their weight:speed ratio to win the double luge, and if we go into the political arena they can be the spin doctors, and cover up all my speaking errors. The Bullet Blunder can be whatever he wants since he knows so many personalities; he can be everything else including the bag-guy who collects all the spoils of our political corruption. I’ll promise high paying jobs with very little work, just like the President; I guess we’ll all have to be Republicans like in the newspaper. I’m not shooting for more than one term since we should be able to get in, grab the loot, and get out before anyone figures out our scam. So let’s all climb on the wagon and go on the campaign trail together, that’s my opinion, what’s yours—oops I meant let’s think about it. How about meeting at the Fourth Ward to discuss details over an RC Cola.

Foxy,
I know how you feel - just sat through an agonizing 30 minutes of womens curling. Wow what suspense!! I usually like all sports but that was like watching paint dry.

I’m tip-toeing into this blog with my opinion, because it’s become so hostile. Foxy dissed his bro and went Goose hunting, but I have to side with the Goose on this one. How else would we less than mediocre athletes ever have a shot at glory unless they invent these crazy competitions. I saw my own Olympic aspirations go by the wayside back in the 70’s when Broom-Ball was king in, and only in, the north country. The Montcalmers had such noteworthy athletes as John & Mickey Carpenter, Wayne & Greg Ducatte, Terry Lashway, Bob Zuckerman, Jim Welch and that ‘cat’ Randy Senecal. Dave Mayette, on one of the first Cardinals’ hockey teams, was also involved with Mike Maille as two of the finest to take their boots to the ice rinks with brooms that never saw the kitchen floor. All were athletes but few could skate or stick handle, but the dream lingered. There were back-room talks at the Fourth Ward as their team, with the same name, lobbied to get Don Meredith and Howard Cosell to do pre interviews in expectation of landing their team on a berth as an Olympic ‘demonstration sport’. I figured I only had to beat out one of the afore mentioned ‘athletes’ to make it on one of these prestigious teams, and live out my own Olympic glory. Alas, it was not to be, time went on Broom-Ball faded, and in came Skeleton, Half Pike, etc, but at least I had the dream. I even fell asleep once a luge run, and still came in within the top five. Luckily I woke up before I hit the retaining wall, but I knew I wouldn’t ever be good enough to make one of those top three spots. So stop the rhetoric, let the sports speak for themselves. I wonder whether video games will be in the winter or summer Olympics? The pros are out of reach for most, but the Olympics are still fair game.

Great Olympic story, Foxy. I'm not sure if elbow tipping will be an event for you and the Goose in the next Olympics!

Hey brother!!! I guess you do not like all these new events that have entered the Olympics?These are in fact sports also. Maybe not in your mind maybe you believe in sticking with the traditional events. If thats the case should we exclude baseball from the summer Olympics? Look for skateboarding to come to the summer games. Gee would it be nice if all these countries settle their differences by doing the biathlon. Shooting at targets instead of humans makes more sense to me. GO USA USA USA--------------

Mr. Foxy,
I remember when they used to ice over the Little League field on So. Platt field and the boys used to ice skate down from the top of Fox Hill onto the ice rink. As a matter of fact I think Goose was the fastest. Is there such a thing as a retroactive Gold Medal. Maybe we should look into the Fox Hill Winter Olympics. I'm calling Kelly King to check on it. We could get "W" to be the Head of FHOC, "Fox Hill Olympic Committee". Where the heck is everybody? Did the "Carver" finally get all the turkeys? Did "Tom" pull a trick like Ed Ames on the Johnny Carson and take out some of our buddies/gals? What's going on out there? I wanted to get in the game but there's no one to play with anymore.