jock talk ottawa redux

Well Grey Cup kick off is about to happen, I am going to watch it. I just thought it was negligent to not mention Paul Kitchen's book Win, Tie or Wrangle - The inside story of the Old Ottawa Senators 1883-1935. I have had the opportunity to meet Paul Kitchen - a former co-worker of my father's a few times and he is really nice guy. As well someone pointed out to me that in addition to the sports I mentioned, we had the triple AAA baseball team the Ottawa Lynx, who won the league's championship in their short history. Baseball is not one of my favourite sports, but it was neat to have a team of that kind in our town. Some of my friends who do follow the games said that many of the players who played in Ottawa for the Lynx - or for another team against the lynx went on to high profile roles in the major leagues. Some of them making it to the "World Seeries". I did manage to catch the last Lynx game ever, as big emotional crowd gave a farwell to another chapter in Ottawa's sports history. Also pointed out to me is that Ottawa has produced a few Olympic athletes probably the most important being Barbara Ann Scott. Well it's almost 6, time for the most high profile all Canadian sports event...