Momma Gouche… A Play on Words

I have often been told that I am “smarter than the average bear,” and (that’s a bare fact). It has also been said don’t “monkey around” with “ Sure-Shot Shirl.”          

It has been apprised that Maggie the Monkey has predicted that the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to win The Stanley Cup. With her record of 0-5, that doesn’t bode too well for my success. I have never had much to do with monkeys, as I can’t abide their aroma, but with me in her stable she may improve her track record.

As you might recall, I have gone out on a limb and said the Penguins in six (I’m at one for two). Nothing is for sure, even for Shirl, and some of my prognoses have gone “the way of the west-wind.”

Most of my hockey cohorts have blatantly told me that Detroit is surely going to win, and Shirley (surely) I am way, way out on a limb. However, anyone I know, knows that I never make positive statements, unless I have positive proof. "The proof is in the pudding” and even I (the guru) don’t have the crucial ingredients. 

Well now that I have had my fun with my play on words, it may just all depend on ”which way the wind blows,” or “how the cookie crumbles” — and more importantly —“the puck bounces.” At least I am a good loser and all you nay-sayers, whom I hope are wrong, better remember that “an elephant never forgets” and get ready to “eat some crow.”

On a more serious note, I have never been an advocate of the home town advantage. True it happens (I don’t know the percentage), but a good team of athletes dedicated to their cause,can prevail under any odds. May the best team win and the most astute guru get ready to serve up the bird.