Bay&Bloor, TORONTO
Early last week contact was made with a rival league, the Toronto Stiga Table Hockey League, or TSTHL. The league consists of approximately 15 teams that compete weekly in the Queen and River area. Representatives of the Y&R THL had a brief, but positive, discussion with their president at the prospect of pitting the best of both leagues against one another in an inter-league tournament.
Team owners in the Y&R THL are definitely excited and intrigued by the possibility of meeting a new crop of players. Quotes are ranging from “We’re going in cold. It’s like the ‘72 Summit Series. But we’ll bring our best and be as ready as we can be.” To, “Legion of Doom? After we’re done, he’ll be the Legion of Gloom.”
Quotes from one of their player’s, who has been frequenting our blog, and goes by a sorry ’80’s reference as a handle has dished out the following, “I heard a rumour that you clowns want to have a tournament with us. If it happens, welcome to the big leagues.”
A time and place has yet to be determined, but it is evident both sides are anxious to get down to business and decide once and for all who owns Toronto.
The ‘72 Summit Series? Hellllooooo….its table hockey people. No comparison and not funny. Legion of Gloom? How original.
After reading your mediocre blog, your league might be a little too ’slow’ to play against. In other words, a waste of our time.
Have any of your players ever played in a real tournament? Its a whole different ball of wax. If you can deliver on the tables, you may just get invited to join the league but I doubt that will happen.
As for the “sorry ’80’s reference as a handle”, blame my parents. And thanks for the personal attack.
We’ll settle this on the table. And bring your wallets. Let’s make it really interesting.
One more thing.
I just heard your league was an advertising agency league. That explains the bad writing in the blog posts.
Alright Frankie. Enough is enough.
We’ll see you at the tourney.
-The Swedes
And judging from some of the grammatical errors and juvenile responses in your past messages, it leaves me to assume that you’re still in public school.
I’m not sure why you’re so intent on dishing out unwarranted smack talk when none of us have even met, but so be it.
All my guys want to do here is see how we stack up against other players. We’ve played one of your members before, I believe he goes by the name The Kensington Knights, and we stood our ground. So if he represents the level of play, then I think we’ll all be in for some fun matches.
Looking forward to some good games.
- The Commish
Juvenile responses? Speaking in the third person and pretending your blogging is a newspaper article is juvenile.
Look Prime Minister, I was just making some smack talk to generate some interest and its apparent you can’t handle it and are taking it personally so I will stop.
This will be my last post.
See you at the tourney.
PS. If you can stand your ground with Chris, then you must be good. I look forward to a new challenge.
Sucka.
Yo Frankie
I seriously don’t know what your beef is with us or our blog. Maybe you’ve just got a puck stuck up the old poop chute and it’s making you cranky. I don’t know.
But if you want to post on the blog feel free. Despite your tainted belief that we can’t handle it, well, we’re all big boys. I don’t think any of us are shedding any tears over it.In fact the guys here look forward to your little posts. As you mentioned above, it generates interest for the upcoming tourney.
And hey, if your teacher can let you out of class early one day or you don’t have to go home for lunch, then you should swing by our agency for some pre-tourney action. There are always guys here ready to have a couple of games. We just hope you can play as well as you say.
If you wish, you can find us at 60 Bloor St. West on the 7th floor.
The number is 416.961.5111 and you can ask for Blain. If I’m unavailable then you can ask to speak to either of my associates, Randy or Shravan.
Good luck getting that puck out of your ass.
To “The Prime Minister” and “The Commish”,
Why do the two of you keep making personal attacks on me. My smack talk has been about your whole league, not the individual. If you think I am in school, that’s fine. I am 27 years old and run a major dot com in Toronto that sees profits of over $50 million annually. The money I earn while in the time it takes me to shit is probably more than you two make in a year. Combined.
I am starting to think that I may have to talk to Euge about denying your league a tourney. He has been reading these posts and is as confused as I am as to why you guys are getting so defensive over a little smack talk.
In fact, I may show up at your agency for a face to face. And not for a game. Your personal attacks are going too far. I would like you to wish me good luck taking the puck out of my ass to my face.
See you tomorrow.
To Frankie,
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s not let this get out of hand here.It seems you are getting a little too hot under the collar. So just step away from your computer and take a deep breath. In the meantime please note, we don’t care if you shit money, grow money or even print money. Why you even brought up money still boggles my mind.
The point is our intent wasn’t to raise your blood pressure to too strenuous a level. Believe me it wasn’t. And on behalf of all the guys here, I do apologize if you took any of it as an attack on you personally. As I said, that wasn’t the intent.
But I’m honestly surprised you guys(you and Eugene) are confused by all the trash talk. Or reason for it.
As I said, we don’t mind the smack talk either. That’s what we do here at the office. One on one. All the time.
But listen, because I want you to understand this, your first contact with us was nothing but smack talk about our play and our blog. Not even an informalintroduction. No, ‘Hey how are you.’ No, ‘Looking forward to meeting you guys.’ No, ‘This should be fun.’ Nothing. No manners or etiquette to speak of.
You set the ground rules by starting off with smack talk. So what do you expect to get in return?
And so far you, Frankie, are the only contact we have. So who do you think we we’re suppose to respond to?
There’s no place to post on your site. No one else from your league has left a post. So Mr. Hollywood, that leaves you. Now let’s reverse the situation – if you guys had a spot to post on your site and I was the only one leaving messages slamming your blog, saying you’re too slow to play in our league, and trashing your agency, then you would undoubtably respond to the person leaving the messages – me. And the natural reaction would be to start razzing me. Which is exactly what I would expect.
I sincerely hope you understand our point of view on this. But if you don’t, then I raise my hands in frustration. While at the same time asking you to send me your POV so I can understand you.
Now perhaps, and I will be the first to admit, we started off on the wrong foot. And as I’ve stated in earlier messages, all our guys want to do is to test our skills against a new set of people. We have no idea how we stack up against other guys. Or girls for that matter. We seriously just love the game. And judging by the fact that you’re the first and only guy from your league to write on our blog, so do you.
Now despite our less than perfect relationship, I’m sure we’re mature enough to put all this high-school-girl like bickering behind us and just play table hockey like grown men. While still enjoying some, less personal, smack talk. At least I am, and I’m sure the guys at the office are too.
As an aside, (and this is smack talk) you are more than welcome to stop by the office tomorrow so I can help you with that puck. But please arrive before 2pm as I will be out of the office for the rest of the day. Just ask the receptionist for Blain.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow too.
No hard feelings dude.
Ciao.
Blain
I am just kidding with you Blain. I quite enjoy your writings and you humour me. A lot. And I mean that in a good way. Its hard to tell through these messages the meaning behind the words or how something is meant to be said so this is getting out of hand. Its all in good fun. I actually work in advertising too. Our paths may even have crossed.
I was trying to throw you off with the dot com and the money thing but it didn’t work.
Anyhow, no hard feelings.
-Frankie
PS – Does Michael Collins still work there? He owes me some money.
Dear Swedes
You’re a knob.