October 19 1999
COMPARING THE 2 DIVISIONS
One year has gone by since Theodore Michael’s article on the CASC Women’s
division and nobody still understands his allusion to the "red smarties"
In his article Theo wrote: "4 October 1998 - Westmount: It finally happened.
After months of negotiations CASC was finally able to add a Wymin's division.
"I wanted the organizer of the league to assure me that smarties would be
available after the games and that red smarties would not be mixed with the
other colors", said Deserie Duncan, "and he promised that he would make it
so
(later in the article) Anyhow, a shot to the head is not as bad as it
sounds".When approached for comment, Theo Michael replied in a stressed
tone, "I've got no time now. The game is almost over and I still have red
smarties to seperate".Beverly (former team captain the women's Canadian
national field hockey team) was timekeeper and secretly scouting the game
(Oops!)."
Did you understand the allusion to the red smarties?
Paula Déry: "No"
Suzanne Solomon: "No"
Valerie Frost "No"
Maxime Michael: "No daddy"
Philippe Michael: "No mommy"
Zoe Solomon-Baird: "Theo makes no sense"
Isaac Newton: "Niente"
Albert Einstein: "Theo is too complicated for me"
Descartes: "Theo is the philosopher of the new millennium"
Chris Nadeau: "Just cause Theo is my brother in law doesn’t mean that
I have to listen to him. Une autre grosse Molson Ginette"
Theo: "you people just don’t understand me"
We need help! If any of you are witty enough to solve the "red smarties"
mystery, please email me immediately. But Theo deserves credit for being
the first person to write about the Women’s division. I have written
numerous articles since the inauguration of the web page but none have
focused on the Women’s division. To tell you the truth, I had never taken
the Women’s division seriously until I played my first game in nets a
little over 3 weeks ago.
Il y a juste les fous qui changent pas d’idées. For those of you that
don’t understand french - suffer (joke). I like the Women’s division so
much that I prefer it over the Men’s division. People think that I’m
B-shi..ng. Non. My retirement from the Men’s division is likely to occur
at any moment... My involvement in the Men’s division will be reduced to
an administrative capacity only. My playing days are over. It’s the
perfect time to say goodbye before my game starts to dwindle
I prefer the women’s division since it truly represents the CASC vision
comradeship and sportsmanship. The men’s division will always lag leaps
and bounds behind the women’s division from this perspective. Men will
always play a much more aggressive game than women do, but they are also
much more stubborn and much less apologetic. Men don’t know how to react
when their macho pride is shaken by a stunning turn of events. Did you know
that the word pride also means a company of lions? Men are lions; don’t
invade their territory, in fear of getting your ass kicked.
Here is comparing the 2 divisions in a very sarcastic nutshell
In the women’s division, sportsmanship and comradeship are the name of the
game
In the men’s division, the name of the game is the comprehensive stats
package that we created, so we can satisfy our massive egos
In the women’s division, a player will immediately apologize when knocking
down an opponent
In the men’s division, a player that knocks down another player will back
up and bowl him over a second time just to make sure he doesn’t get up
right away.
In a goal mouth scramble in the women’s division , the goalie freezes the
ball and play resumes behind the net
In a goal mouth scramble in the men’s division , the goalie freezes the
ball, counts his fingers and play resumes behind the net
In the women’s division, the team comes first; individual accomplishments
come second
In the men’s division, individual accomplishments come first. Players look
at the scorers list before they look at the standings. "I got 7 points last
week! Wow! Did we win? I don’t remember" (and if only you can hear that
little voice deep down inside his soul: "and frankly, I don't give a shit
if we won or lost. My stats are more important")
In the women’s division, players know how to win
In the men’s division, players don’t know how to lose
In the women’s division, a boyfriend will come to watch his girlfriend
play. If she scores a goal, she will not show off in front of him.
In the men’s division, a girlfriend will come to watch his boyfriend play.
If he scores a goal, he will blow kisses at her, to send the message that
she’s the luckiest girl in the world to be going out with such a gifted
hockey player.
In the women’s division, forgotten sticks, water bottles and orange balls
are given back to the person concerned
In the men’s division, forgotten sticks, water bottles and orange balls
are used in the next game
In the women’s division, you suffer a difficult loss and still shake hands
after the game
In the men’s division, you suffer a difficult loss and your massive macho
pride is totally shaken. You immediately hightail it out of the gym without
shaking hands
In the women’s division, players on the bench cheer and encourage their
team’s performance In the men’s division, players cheer and encourage their
teammates to get off the floor immediately so they can go on
Every single man who just read this is saying to himself: "yeah, I do that
all the time"
In the women’s division, things are so quiet that you can hear the
ventilation systems and the sound from the sodium or fluorescent light
fixtures (I’m a lighting expert)
In the men’s division, players scream and yell like a bunch of 2nd grade
toddlers who are in the school yard during recess.
In the women’s division, a referee is a connscientious adult who calls a
hockey game as best he can, in the utmost neutrality
In the men’s division, a referee is a diaper and pacifier donor.
In the women’s division, players go to the bar to relax after the game
In the men’s division, players go to the bar to ruin the benefits of an
hour’s worth of athletic activity by drinking 5 or 6 quarts
In the women’s division, players are physically drained after a game
In the men’s division, referees are mentally drained after a game
In the women’s division, a quarrel is immediately forgotten
In the men’s division, a quarrel is never forgotten. You will need to hire
a secret agency to relocate your family in a new city, change your last
name, all in fear of being found by the guy you accidentally slashed on
the shins
In the women’s division, a player who draws blood will be attended to
right away (I don’t think it has happened thus far)
In the men’s division, the assailant will sip his victims blood, go home
and create a clay molding of the victims face, put it on a platter, attach
it to the roof of the car, and drive it through the streets of downtown
Montreal while blasting Marilyn Manson music
In the women’s division, a ball hockey gymnasium is a place where adults
exercise and have fun
In the men’s division, a ball hockey gymnasium is an evening daycare
center for massively overgrown 5 year old oafs who use plastic sticks to
slap each other on the shins
In the women’s division, a gymnasium is comprised of a smooth playing
surface utilized to play ball hockey
In the men’s division, a gymnasium is a giant sandbox where little boys
gather in bunches to push themselves one on top of the other, while
calling each other names
After reading this article. women will fully understand the satiric
nature of this article
After reading this article, some men will threaten me with fisticuffs
since no man is allowed to laugh at his own gender