Bye bye Tie

The bad news: I just wasn’t feelin’ it yesterday, and I skipped out. My apologies.

The good news: I’m back at it today.

The better news: Peter Gammons is out of hospital. Pete is pretty much the reason “sports” and “journalism” are words that go together.

The best news: Tie Domi retired yesterday!

Now, there’s no such thing as a good Maple Leaf. By the very nature of having any association with that organization, you immediately become evil. Like, shooting kittens evil-- and that’s just at the lesser end of the evil.

Tie Domi resides somewhere a little closer to say… Overlord of the Underworld. This guy has been the bane of my hockey-enjoying existence for the better part of the last decade, and frankly, I’m happy he “couldn’t put on another jersey,” thereby destroying the minds of hockey fans in another town.

Actually, let me backtrack here, a little. Tie does a lot of charity work, and has been a very good citizen in his time in Toronto. On a personal level, he’s one of the good guys.

But he can’t play a lick of hockey, and he got paid more than $2 million dollars a year in his last contract.

And Leafs fans, those horrible, horrible people, they love him for it! Tie scores a goal, he gets the front page of the Toronto Sun. Ties gets an assist, he can be pictured with the Sunshine Girl in a compromising position.

This is a guy that challenged a Flyers fan to a fist fight, while serving a fighting penalty, and Leafs fans loved him for it.

Starting to see the trend?

Tie Domi couldn’t play hockey, and the so-called centre of the hockey universe loved him for it. That’s wrong on so many levels, it’s mind-boggling.

Lakers fans love Kobe despite the charges he faced. I don’t have to agree with it, but at least Kobe can play the game.

Giants fans still love Barry Bonds despite the persistent steroid rumours, and again, I don’t have to like it, but Barry can mash. The guy can flat-out play.

Domi could fight, but even last year he proved that he can’t much do that anymore.

There is no place in the game for a guy like Domi anymore, so let me be the first to say “don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”

Of course, he’s taken a job as some part of TSN’s NHL broadcasts, which is just one more reason to spend the extra money on the Centre Ice package.