Cafeoutdoors.com: A story for last stand

For the last year or so, my partners and I have been negotiating the sale of our business.

At this point, we're getting everything nailed down except the air above the land where we're located. It's been a long process, because it's not just and 'asset sale', but a stock sale that includes all of our assets and all of our liabilities. It includes a floating inventory, and the services of our employees, and many of my guys have been with me over 35 years.

The company, was founded in 1960, so it also includes the goodwill that we have generated. Most of that's about 'loyalty', and it's a difficult thing to put a price tag on. There isn't one SINGLE thing that has been simple about the process, but where there's a will there's a way to get these things done. And we're (hopefully) at the end of it all.

Many, many times I've kicked my own ass for paying the high cost of Leafs' season tickets. And, since they haven't won the Stanley Cup since 1967, that's no wonder, huh?

Today, the news came that two large media companies are reportedly buying Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, including The Leafs, The Marlies (Jr.A team), The Air Canada Centre and The Rogers Centre.

Does it matter? Nope.

Because in the end, the last major sticking point in the whole entire sale of my company is "Who gets to keep The Leafs' Season Tickets?"

NOBODY actually wants to pay for them.

EVERYBODY knows that they are a measure of LOYALTY and DETERMINATION.

Don't let this thing get you down, Buddy.

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