I hurt.
Yesterday was my chance to try out the new North Course at The Club at Bond Head, near Highways 400 and 88, where I’ll be hosting an Ingram Micro Reseller Golf tournament on July 18th. We needed to check it out, investigate the services, and check out the holes to recommend them for vendor sponsorships. Sadly, I didn’t make the decision to apply sunscreen until #11 and I’m paying for it today.
The course itself was quite good, wide open, tons of fescue and some pretty wide fairways and greens. The pin placements were exceedingly difficult, likely due to the fact that Ian Leggatt was playing in a twosome right behind us. Still, I managed to get my first par on a hole ever (I’m a baaaad golfer) and a bogey on another. All other holes I scored numbers that don’t come with fancy names.
As for the Leafs discussion on the Zonk.. I’m not sure how some folks can take pride in the fact they’re fans for life, regardless. This isn’t admirable to me. If you ran a business and hired someone to run it, and day-in and day-out for years they did a pitiful job, you’d eventually lose faith in them and terminate the relationship. The Maple Leafs have been ineptly managed for our entire lives, completely lacking in any desire to put a competitive team on the ice. JFJ isn’t to blame, ownership is, because if ownership wanted to win they’d staff the team with capable people, not simply micromanaging the same team of old misfits every year. Look at what Ottawa and Pittsburgh have done with their teams, each less than 10 years removed from residing in the league basement. This is something worth supporting?
But if you support the Pens or the Sens, wouldn’t that be jumping on the band wagon? I mean, if you’d rooted for them from day one, it’d be different, but to suddenly support them because they’re suddenly successful….
I appreciate your assumption but I’ve been a Senators fans since my days covering the Ottawa territory in my first post-college job circa-1997-1999. So I’m no bandwagon jumper.
I’ve never been a Pens fan, but I have to admit I love the excitement present in the team they’ve built, and will certainly check them out this coming season. No problem in learning to appreciate a solidly managed and built team.
I see your point…I guess I gave up on the Bruins for several years now. THAT franchise, along with Chicago, have been among the worst run organizations in the NHL. How they ever let that revolving-door of their goaltending situation evolve ever since trading Moog is beyong me. Trading Bourque away; that was smart. Bringing in Jim Carey. All these dumb moves… I honestly gave up. I couldn’t find myself supporting this franchise anymore even though I had been a fan in the early 1990s.
So I guess your point about the TML makes sense.
I see your point…I guess I gave up on the Bruins for several years now. THAT franchise, along with Chicago, have been among the worst run organizations in the NHL. How they ever let that revolving-door of their goaltending situation evolve ever since trading Moog is beyong me. Trading Bourque away; that was smart. Bringing in Jim Carey. All these dumb moves… I honestly gave up. I couldn’t find myself supporting this franchise anymore even though I had been a fan in the early 1990s.
So I guess your point about the TML makes sense.
I’m actually an old school Boston and Chicago fan as well, so we have something in common. But I do liken their inept management to Toronto’s, all three teams just have no idea how to field a competitive team. The situation in Chicago is a bit worse because their owner is off his nut and his poor decisions extend well past the team on the ice. New arenas and TV blackouts come to mind.
Since the Harold balalrd days, the Leafs have been run as well as any other franchise (maybe with the exception of Detroit).
Financially? Sure. They make a mint, and are by far the pinnacle of monetary success in the NHL. But the on-ice product would rank in the bottom five of the league in the past 20 years. There has been precisely one season in 40 years during which the Leafs had even a remote chance of competing for the Cup. That’s not well run.
They have been closer to top 5 than bottom 5 over the past 20 years… not sure where the bottom 5 number is coming from.
Four final 4 appearances don’t count as ‘competing’? They only lost in the first round once under Quinn (the 5th greatest coach in NHL history).
Ottawa is so well run? They also have had one real chance at the cup of the past 20 years… and that didn’t look to pretty in the end. They will not get that chance again for another 20. I guarantee it.
Pitts? Yeah… they were brilliant over the past 20 years. It just turns out that they got some lucky picks over the past 10. Before Crosby… boy were they awesome. Where did they finish that year?
McCowan/Cox/Simmons can say all they want to try and stir up Leaf fans, but very few organizations are better run or have had better results than the Leafs. There are two franchises that are run better than any others (Red Wings & Devils), after that it’s pretty even.
They have been closer to top 5 than bottom 5 over the past 20 years… not sure where the bottom 5 number is coming from.
Four final 4 appearances don’t count as ‘competing’? They only lost in the first round once under Quinn (the 5th greatest coach in NHL history).
Ottawa is so well run? They also have had one real chance at the cup of the past 20 years… and that didn’t look to pretty in the end. They will not get that chance again for another 20. I guarantee it.
Pitts? Yeah… they were brilliant over the past 20 years. It just turns out that they got some lucky picks over the past 10. Before Crosby… boy were they awesome. Where did they finish that year?
McCowan/Cox/Simmons can say all they want to try and stir up Leaf fans, but very few organizations are better run or have had better results than the Leafs. There are two franchises that are run better than any others (Red Wings & Devils), after that it’s pretty even.
sorry about the double post…
I have to agree with House here. 1993, 1994, 1999 were all successful seasons… not to mention they’ve beaten Ottawa in every meaningful playoff series. Isn’t that every series they’ve played each other? And don’t forget, in 1994, they were supposed to make it to the Finals but stupid Vancouver was running over Potvin every chance they got… where was the officiating in that series? This Final Four thing proves that they’ve had some recent success. It’s better to compare the so-called Original Six teams with each other. Toronto definitely is in, or has been in, better shape than the NY Rangers, Chicago, and Boston. I think the Canadiens won 2 flukey Cups. Come on… 1996 and 1993? Those were flukes. So cancel those two out, the Leafs and Habs have been comparable since the mid-80s. The only team that’s above these 5 teams are the Red Wings.
Yeah, Rick… What is this bottom 5 comment about? Going back to 1986, I think the Leafs have been competitive almost every year… with the exception being the early 90s for a couple years when they had that bum Fuhr in net… along with Bester and Ing and Reese.