This past Friday night, the 2014 SweatSox Summit took place where the future of the franchise was being discussed. In order to keep the team focused on the task at hand, the Summit was scheduled at a location so far off the grid, the best kind of wireless data signal you could get was a 2-bar 3G.
Item 1 on the agenda was the official retirement of Marc Lett’s jersey. When told that he’d have to buy a new jersey or wear the spare #69 if we hung his current one in the rafters, OML opted to postpone the ceremony indefinitely. We also learned that host Craig Cornell lost his jersey at some point since the Championship game. When told that he’d have to buy a new jersey or wear the spare #69, he said he’d buy a new one. Why doesn’t anyone want #69?
Item 2 on the agenda was whether or not to switch tiers in 2014. We’ll switch to Tier 3 if push comes to shove, otherwise we’re content being a .500 Tier 2 team.
Item 3 on the agenda was whether or not to cut Ross Hughes. We really like “Lambeau”, probably not as much as one future SweatSox wife though, but nonetheless The Merchandise can stick around for another season.
Item 4 on the agenda was figuring out how to introduce “unfolds” into the world of poker. Spoiler Alert: Only Mark Bond was successfully able to do so.
Item 5 on the agenda was making predictions for today’s Super Bowl. Here’s who had who:
Denver Broncos
Mark Bond
Craig Cornell
Craig’s Cat
Andrew Elias
John Groves
Ross Hughes
Denver Hunt
Shaun Keay
Marc Lett
Chris Lidstone
Eric White
Darya Wynter
Seattle Seahawks
Cory Bond
After the Summit portion of the evening was done, it was time to light the SweatSox Olympic cauldron.
While I’m still not quite sure how the scoring system works just yet, here was the Summit Poker Podium for Event #1:
GOLD- Mark Bond
SILVER- Andrew Elias
BRONZE- John Groves
Between games, Eric White was put in charge of ordering the pizza. A 14 minute phone call later, we were pretty sure 14 pizza’s were on its way.
After the main course, it was time for dessert. In honour of Armando Navarro’s birthday, we all pitched in for a birthday cake. #12 called in sick at the last minute, so we sang the birthday song in his honour, then Brownshow got on his knees and blew.
What would a SweatSox Summit be without a beer spill. Last year, it was Mark Stinson who got the spills started, this time, it was The Consultant. I guess he got spooked by the eyes on his bottle. E5.
Finally, it was brought to my attention that in the 2013 Year-in-Review, I made a factual inaccuracy: I wrote that Craig missed the entire Athletics series because he was on vacation. It turns out that he didn’t miss the Athletics series because he was on vacation, he missed it because he pulled his groin putting on his baseball pants at 7:00am the morning of Game 1, and that injury kept him out until the Championship series.
You can take it to the bank that there will be no more errors on this site ever again. I dare you to find one…
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