Tend The Farm

The Oklahoma City Barons defense makes…me…sigh…heavily.

It’s a weird feeling knowing that people are reading this site, my words, and my attempt at digital scrivening. I know, I know, what a terribly self absorbed comment to make given the great amount of interaction that you, the fine readers of TtF, have given in such a short time to an Oklahoma-based blog [...]

I’m a little worried about the ongoing non-negotiations of the NHLPA and a league of extraordinarily wealthy gentlemen. Not because talks have been put on hold, or that the Winter Classic has been canceled, or that a foreseeable agreement is about as readily available as a pair of Nike Mags from the Michael J. Fox [...]

November is now here. And there is a lot to mumble about in the world of Barons hockey. I’m not a pessimistic person, and if I were, these mumbles would be more frequent and more seething. Instead I’m an optimistic thinker to a fault. I bring this to your attention for one reason, and one reason only [...]

In a few days, the Barons will play on home ice in downtown Oklahoma City. And when they do, it will feature one of the most glamorous sports teams in the cities history. Not in terms of where they will end the season do we rate them historically, but how deeply loaded they are from [...]

I can’t help but sigh. I feel like these Monday Mumble’s have become all about the dreadful things in hockey. Moaning about lockouts, watered down hockey, and AHL teams desperately seeking attention have gotten the best of my psyche. I just want to eat gallons of Americone Dream, sit in my La-Z-Boy, and wait for [...]