2 min read
03 Aug

It's in the final hour of the 1st quarter and and I am not going to harvest much at all on a day that I sure could use a well harvested quarter in the early half since I shouldn't be harbesting muych in the 3rd quarter for reasons of day and things that I have to start thinking of doing.


But here I am, in the final hour just starting the writing day and about to harvest half a field at best when I might well have harvested a full field if I had chosen to write instead of chosen sleep.


Though that doesn't mean that the 2nd quarter cannot be the one where I harvest what remains of the first fields and start to harvest the second which would be good as I could harvest two or three rows in the 3rd and finish the harvesting of the second field and see how much of the third field I can harvest in the 4th.


Only time will tell, but let me tell about something other than my own harvesting of words and instead tell about the doing of others more accomplished than myself.


The haters would accept that I will use that opening to talk about the the current players of the Montreal Canadiens who played their lone(?) exhibition game of their return to play after the long Virus COVID shutdown of the 2019-2020 season?


They are professionals yes, even though it goes without saying, according to the haters that they suck and will never win another Stanley Cup and only won any because there were so few teams for the longest time.


The truth of the size of the league cannot be denied, but they still won all those Stnaley Cups when the other teams of the league won far less frequently, outside of the Toronto Maple Leafs who were tied for the greatest number of Stanley Cups won as late as 1964 before the Habs won their 13th in 1965, which put them one past the number that the Leafs would ever win when they won their last in 1967.


At least until this point anyway, which is a long time removed from that final glorious season of the Leafs.


And we can't rule out the Leafs winning another Stanley Cup, as unlikely as it seems now.


Also, the Habs briefly, for the first time, had the most Cups won  between 1958 and 1960 when they were in the midst of winning five straight.


But they are both long removed from their glories, though the Habs have made it to final four more recently than the Leafs in 2010 and 2014 when they lost to the finalists both times.


Oh what might have been eh had they won the Conference Finals in either or both of those years.


Both times they would have faced frnachises they had done well against in their storied past.


Though they would have been in tough against both teams


Perhaps in another reality there was glory to be had as winning the first two series in seven games each didn't have such an effect on them and they proved themselves past the Flyers, who'd stunned the Bruins with their valiant comeback.


Is that the same reality where the Expos didn't have what would have been their greatest season stolen from them by a strike and eventual cancellation of the season  by Major League Baseball who didn't care about the history of the game and for only the second time in its long and storied history had a year without a World Series?


Maybe it is.


Is this going to the 3rd season without a World Series?


At least this would be a for a different reason.


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