Salt On Monday

A sweet Salty, and then the Leafs.....

The baseball season is starting today. I know two teams played last night, but this is the real Opening Day. It’s sunny outside and I have been checking the progress of my fantasy Baseball team, FREEPETEROSE, every thirty seconds.

(And by the way, my starting outfielder has hit for two home runs in four innings. You can’t stop Adam Dunn, you can only hope to contain him. What’s done is Dunn. Done and Dunn. I can keep going all day with this…)

The Blue Jays just beat the consensus top team in baseball – the Tigers – in extra innings 5-3.
It is relatively sunny.
I am moving back into my favorite part of the city.
What I am trying to say is I can’t find much salt today.

That is until I watch the Hockey highlights from yesterday.

Now, I see all the Leaf flags flying on cars. I see the packed sports bars when the Leafs are playing, I see the excitement of the sportscasters and writers when the Leafs actually move closer to playoff position.

Frankly it is embarrassing to live in a city where the fans get excited when the team gets closer to a playoff position. I have been watching the Leafs longer than I have been masturbating, and friends, I found my own personal fun stick at an early age. The last time this team had a collection of young stars that had a chance to make some sort of a run at the Stanley cup was in the late seventies.


Darryl Sittler 25 years old.
Lanny McDonald 23 years old.
Borje Salming 24 years old.
Ian Turnbull 22 years old.

In the four seasons starting from 1975, this quartet, Center Sittler, Winger McDonald, Defensemen Salming and Turnbull carried the team and gave true hope to Leaf fans.
Sittler averaged 98.5 points in the four year period starting with the 1975 season. McDonald averaged 88.75. Salming 71 points, and Turnbull 65 points.

Think about Sundin with a winger who wasn’t shit AND they were both under 100 years old. (And actually showed leadership on the ice.) Imagine that instead of Kaberle and McCabe as your top two blueliners, you had a guy who could skate and shoot better than Kaberle and didn’t shy away from taking the body. That was Salming. And instead of McCabe imagine a rear guard that could skate, hit, shoot and wasn’t 55 years old living off his contract year season.

Sittler, Salming, McDonald and Turnbull. Google these guys if you want to see a Leaf team that wasn’t 99% hype.

This current Leaf team sucks.

That Leaf team was young and talented.
May we live long enough to see that again.