Don Cherry: You Messed Up

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Don Cherry disappointed me the other day.

Don, speaking as both a hockey fan and one of the "artsy people"? You blew it. Big time.

A confession I've already made to the Toronto Star's Facebook people: I got a lot of drawing practice as a kid in grade school - we're talking grades 1-3 level here - drawing people playing hockey. The figure work wasn't much improved over "stick figure" levels and their chins were almost nonexistent. But this is what inspired me as a kid to draw like a comics-artist-in-training fiend. NHL hockey.

Just sad, Don. Really...sad.

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No denying that, not with a chain of restaurants from one end of the country to the other with his name on them. Not saying he hasn't earned his level of achievement (bracing for fans who WILL swear that I'm making veiled accusations regardless of my intentions) but it does cloud the issues he ought to be seeing clear as day.

One example: that people who now earn at the modern version of the level he did when he was starting out as a young man are among the most dedicated users of public transit. And we all know what his new mayoral friend has stated as his intentions for the Transit City plan.

My lungs could do with the improvements that plan might provide the world. Big time. And I doubt that I'm alone in this.

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Heck, I'm sure the CBC alone pays him more in a year than I'll ever have in my lifetime.

I use the TTC every time I go into Toronto. Even as a non-resident now, its state of quality is important to me. And I like seeing my hometown do well, so I hate Ford and all he stands for. He's an embarrassment to the city.