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Sylvia Plath ain’t got nothing on you

Thanks for writing this.

Front paged.

Holy crap, this is beautiful.

…do these men, these lucky few that get to pull that sacred blue and white sweater over their eyes, that get to see the game jersey’s emblem from the inside for a split second before smoothing it carefully into place over their hearts – do they feel what I feel? What we feel?

This is about as beautiful a paragraph can be when it comes to explaining fandom. Even taking it out of the lens of the Leafs past few seasons, it’s still eloquently apropos.

The last two paragraphs…so good.

I feel ya – I live in City Y and cheer for team X.

I feel ya man. Often in Ottawa I don’t even get the leafs games. I get the CBC previews of them, and then they are like “psych! time to watch the sens!”
Last night was awful, but I could have felt much better if the sens didn’t destroy atlanta :(

paying people to do things that they love makes them stop loving it.

This is why people like Doug Gilmore and Wendel Clark weren’t men. They were gods!

This seriously brought a tear to my eye.

Maybe someone should show this post to the Leafs and maybe give them a history lesson of the 1942 Stanley Cup winning team. Syl Apps and all down 3-0 in the series and Hap Day read them a letter from a fan – they rallied back to win the series because they didn’t want to let that fan down. But I guess they don’t make hockey players like that anymore.

You gotta wonder what the players think. This is what pains me when we see big leaf fans like stamkos who will most likely never play for the leafs. The only person on this team who cares enough i think is kaberle. Probably also Tim Brent but sadly he just isn’t that talented.

I actually gave in and cheered when the Habs won last night.
I’ve taken too much from Canucks fans lately.

Much as I hate the Habs, living in Vancouver, with all the irrational, whiny, and venomous Toronto-bashing, I say well done Habs — I hate the ’Sucks more.

That said, I woke up this morning with a cold dead ache in my gut — what if this season gets truly out of control and we REALLY tank again?? My god. ANOTHER top 2 draft pick to Boston?? Are we teetering on the brink of the worst trade in the history of the franchise since … since I don’t know when?? I love Kessel, I so do, but no human being is immune to that kind of pressure, being linked to that level of disappointment (ditto Brian Burke, who I am also a fan of, let it be said). Somebody, please hold my hand or sing me a lullabye to calm me down …

My girlfriend gets text message alerts now whenever the Habs score (or are scored against). It hurts.

this just made me have a new favourite writer on the internet. This is why I don’t write, I couldn’t come up with something like this in a million years. Fan-Fucking-Tastic

so, alot of us spent the past year and a bit justifying the moves Burke has made, the approach hes had to the ‘re-tool’ and the direction the club is headed. Most felt that many of the moves made were the right ones and that Burke had this team on the right track to make a move up the standings and into a brighter future. Were we just trying to convince ourselves that it was being done properly and that it would work out fine, or is there enough evidence now to show that not only is Burke failing but as a fan base we’ve all been duped by his act?

I do want to say, again, that this post is wonderful and we need more of them.

Get crackin’. :)

They don’t even remember what it’s like.

That can be flipped for us in terms of wins.
Beautiful post. Just wanted to leave some sort of comment to say so.:)

Awesome

There is no joy in mudville.