A Plea to Pombo

[Triller 1,670]

Dearest Pombo,

 

     I hope this correspondence finds you comfortable and happy even with the far too early exit caused by your playoff foes, the Bulls from Houston.  My name is Triller and I am representing the Titans of Helsinki as the Assistant to the General Manager.  You may recall our first interaction after your team's home game win against those pesky fish from San Diego in which your Aces supplied their gracious fans with a very impactful 7-3 win.  You had received the second star of the game for providing your team with a fabulous first period goal along with three wonderful helpers.  After your interview with the off-ice correspondent of the respectable Victory Sports Network, I was able to get your attention hoping to chat with you in regards to the upcoming S94 Victory Hockey League Entry Draft.  Though scouting is not my official job title, it does fall into the purview of my duties and there is no one I had wished to meet more than yourself, but I digress - in the confusion of the post game excitement you must have mistaken me as one of your team's equipment keepers and saw my outstretched arms as the caring location to which your sweat drenched gloves could be dried, sanitized and detailed for the Aces second game in the back to back meeting with the Marlins.  Though the meeting did not go the way I had dreamed it would, I did manage to get out of the arena with your magical mitts tucked gently under my waistcoat without attracting any attention.  

 

     Your gloves now rest on my office shelves in the Titans Complex and remain a constant motivator and reminder that I will achieve one of my life's greatest goals by bringing you into the Helsinki organization through the draft and returning these tools of destruction to the hands that best wield them.  Your performance this season came as no surprise to anyone who knows the game of Puck Stick like I do.  Your hockey IQ and bloodhound-like nose for the net makes you the pinnacle of your class and topping the scoring race is the most basic way of helping the plebeians of the sport understand, through simple numbers, that you should be their focus if they want to bring a new level of attention to their teams and cities.  However, they fail to read and recognize the spirit of a true goal scorer beyond the stats sheet.  Someone who never simply shoots for the back of the net, but shoots with the mindset of putting the puck THROUGH the back of the net.  You don’t, “tickle the twine”, “pop the bottle” or “light the lamp”.  You “eviscerate the twine”, “devastate the bottle” and “engulf the lamp in endless flame” with your ability to make defending goalies second and third guess their life choice to be in opposition of you.

 

     Helsinki and its people are wonderfully accommodating and provide an amazing place for our players and our team to grow and prosper.  We are building for the future and never more do I need my transition glasses than when I peer into that bright, lens flared future with you as one of the main set pieces of our leadership group.  We have amazing players currently associated with our team and they will be leaned on to represent the organization and grow into a team that will be ready when our other prospects and yourself emerge to carve a deep path into the Victory Hockey league as you represent all those wonderfully accommodating people of Helsinki.

 

     Other, less equipped, Assistants to General Managers may reach out to you with weak, limp wrists and soft, oddly moist hands in hopes that you will build a preference for their organizations but remember, I have the means for you to avoid the wet, wilting pieces of lettuce that they call hands…your gloves.  Join us as a Titan of Helsinki and let the name of Pombo rise into the elegant spruce rafters that house our passionate and dedicated fans.  Hear them chant your name and let it echo to the peaks of the mighty Loukkumaki.  Become a Titan.

 

Thank You
AGM to Helsinki, Triller

@samx

 

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[samx 1,173]

You know pombo isn't one to like the attention on him to be public. Therefore is upset about this. However, you make some solid points that I can not argue. Therefore I would be okay playing for the Helsinki titans.

[Alex 3,207]

On 4/30/2024 at 2:08 PM, Triller said:

After your interview with the off-ice correspondent of the respectable Victory Sports Network

Should be noted that we don’t have these, there’s a fraud among us!