Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Lightning Strikes
For just the second time in American major professional sports, a team with a singular nickname has gotten its hands on its league's championship trophy. The Tampa Bay Lightning joins the Colorado Avalanche in achieving the feat, and I will resist all urges to use plural verbs with said singular names ("The Lightning have won it!" just simply does not wash).
We were in Vancouver B.C. for bro's bachelor party weekend and could have been in country for the Stanley Cup's return to the Great White North but T-Bay's overtime goal in Game 6 squelched that opportunity. We might have been able to see cars being turned over and Mounties set on fire even though we were an entire province away. But it was not to be, and the cold, cold country in which I was born will have to watch as the Cup gets a tan on the beaches of Florida.
We were in Vancouver B.C. for bro's bachelor party weekend and could have been in country for the Stanley Cup's return to the Great White North but T-Bay's overtime goal in Game 6 squelched that opportunity. We might have been able to see cars being turned over and Mounties set on fire even though we were an entire province away. But it was not to be, and the cold, cold country in which I was born will have to watch as the Cup gets a tan on the beaches of Florida.
Now we wait a few months. The NBA doesn't have a tremendous amount of appeal for us here at E.K. Nation, so the next great event will be the baseball playoffs in October. We'll be ready.
Memo to the Tampa Tribune: Next time you prepare two editorials, one in case your team wins and the other in case your team loses, don't print them both the day after your team wins.
