Real Fantasy Team?
Want your own real life fantasy team? You pick the players, you decide how much they make, you play for the team, and for better of worse...you live with the results. You do this all while thousands of people cheer, judge, scorn, swear, and sing. Well that is my job. It is beyond rewarding while being hair-pullingly stressful. It makes you a villian or a hero on a nightly basis. But you know what...it is a dream come true.
I can vividly remember playing a Nintendo game called Baseball Stars where you made your own team, drafting players, and playing them in a league. I loved it. I ate it up. I would fire guys for strike outs. I was ruthless. Then time tempered me and I got to playing NHL for Play Station where you can develop yourself. I took my dictator ruthlessness and turned it into a full fledge hockey fantasy. I made myself and NHL player. Man was I unrealistic. I gave myself 99 speed. For those of you who know me, I am in reality, a 34. Or a 3.4. Also, I was skinny. Skinny like Lindsay Lohan(I am probably skinny like Will Farrell.) That was just me kidding myself. But here I am, not playing a video game. Not playing fantasy....rather, I am building a team of men. That is just where the intrigue will begin......
As a way to promote the Edinburgh Capitals and the Elite Ice Hockey League I am going to be blogging on a more regular basis this summer. I hope to educate you on the day-to-day movements of a professional player coach. I will cover everything from how I find players, how I train, what I do encourage players to come overseas. You will learn everyday for me in the summer is manic.
You will understand why I put over 3000 minutes on my phone each month last summer and countless hours on the computer. I actually budget for a driving ticket using a cell phone. Days are spent on the move and always have to be ready to take the call that might land the league's leading scorer, like Edinburgh did last season.
If you follow the Caps or are just a fan of ice hockey you will find what the real life of a pro hockey coach is like in the summer. There is no off-season.
Stay tuned...next time we will discuss how I spent the first day after I re-signed for my 3rd season with the Edinburgh Capitals.
I can vividly remember playing a Nintendo game called Baseball Stars where you made your own team, drafting players, and playing them in a league. I loved it. I ate it up. I would fire guys for strike outs. I was ruthless. Then time tempered me and I got to playing NHL for Play Station where you can develop yourself. I took my dictator ruthlessness and turned it into a full fledge hockey fantasy. I made myself and NHL player. Man was I unrealistic. I gave myself 99 speed. For those of you who know me, I am in reality, a 34. Or a 3.4. Also, I was skinny. Skinny like Lindsay Lohan(I am probably skinny like Will Farrell.) That was just me kidding myself. But here I am, not playing a video game. Not playing fantasy....rather, I am building a team of men. That is just where the intrigue will begin......
As a way to promote the Edinburgh Capitals and the Elite Ice Hockey League I am going to be blogging on a more regular basis this summer. I hope to educate you on the day-to-day movements of a professional player coach. I will cover everything from how I find players, how I train, what I do encourage players to come overseas. You will learn everyday for me in the summer is manic.
You will understand why I put over 3000 minutes on my phone each month last summer and countless hours on the computer. I actually budget for a driving ticket using a cell phone. Days are spent on the move and always have to be ready to take the call that might land the league's leading scorer, like Edinburgh did last season.
If you follow the Caps or are just a fan of ice hockey you will find what the real life of a pro hockey coach is like in the summer. There is no off-season.
Stay tuned...next time we will discuss how I spent the first day after I re-signed for my 3rd season with the Edinburgh Capitals.
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