“I didn’t even know who she was,” Grapes told The Sun’s Joe Warmington.
![Hockey commentator Don Cherry in Mississauga on November 9, 2021.](https://oponame.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WARMINGTON-Don-Cherry-ignores-Tara-Slones-cheap-shot.jpg)
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Don Cherry’s phone kept ringing and people were asking him what he thought of the old local hockey co-host Tara Slone calling him a fanatic.
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“The first thing I said was, ‘Who is she?'” the legendary trainer told the Toronto Sun. “I didn’t recognize her, but someone said it was still her with Ron (MacLean). I didn’t even know who she was.
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It was a dirty, smelly crate of green grapes, three years out of date. But any news about Cherry doesn’t expire, it goes viral. That’s what Slone took advantage of in a nasty tweet slamming Cherry, who’s gone from Coaches corner and Hockey Night in Canada since November 2019.
Digging up old bones, claiming she “love(d)Don,” Slone said, “I hated her perspective, more and more as the years passed.”
She added “Don’s relentless and nostalgic elevation as a figure we should look up to as a leader in hockey and politics? Go on.”
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While bizarrely saying she hopes he’s ‘healthy and fine’, she added ‘he’s a fanatic and didn’t belong on national TV with a national platform It wasn’t the poppy incident, it was all he had been proclaiming for three decades. Come on. Stop with the deification.
Don, 88, laughed: “I guess I’m an easy target.”
Ironically, Slone’s national platform on Rogers’ Sportsnet local hockey with Cherry co-host Ron MacLean has been cancelled. Slone said the grapes “were sort of tolerated local hockey but I was jealous of Ron’s (MacLean) other job/co-host” and “we thought we were limp and woke and focused on too many things outside of hockey.
Cherry said it was actually the opposite. He was “happy because Ron liked this show”.
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“I was asked to go twice and I did,” Cherry said. “Not out of jealousy. I just wanted to help them.
![Rogers Hometown Hockey broadcasters Ron MacLean and Tara Slone.](https://oponame.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1666461233_1_WARMINGTON-Don-Cherry-ignores-Tara-Slones-cheap-shot.jpg)
And the seventh-tallest Canadian, once elected, said he would do anything to help his on-air partner of 35 years and was always happy to share the spotlight.
Just before Remembrance Day 2019, when Cherry castigated many Canadians for not wearing the poppy in memory of our fallen troops, MacLean did nothing to counter Cherry’s comment and then saved his own skin while watching Grapes get crushed by a mob eager to take down the legend. .
“You people…you love our way of life, you love our milk and our honey, at least you can pay a few bucks for a poppy or something,” Cherry said on Coaches corner. “These guys paid for your lifestyle that you love in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”
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Cherry joked, “I didn’t know I said all that” but “when I walk the dogs people tell me they knew I was just reminded to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day”,
Three years later, Cherry said, “the more I think about it, the more I believe they were just looking for an excuse to get rid of me and I gave it to them.”
Cherry was thrown to the wolves while MacLean, who said at the time “that’s why we love you”, played the role of Judas to hang on to his big contract while his mate lost his job and his legacy.
“It’s old news, but don’t ask my wife Luba’s opinion because she’ll give it to you,” laughed Cherry, who has quietly continued to do her weekly Grapevine podcast.
The reason Cherry is trending on Twitter is because people want him back on the airwaves instead of the boring crew that replaced him.
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“Everywhere I go, people tell me: ‘When will Coaches corner come back?'”
Don said it was unlikely.
“It’s a different world now,” he said.
Slone figuratively took the bus that MacLean threw Cherry under and brought it back on him.
“Looking forward, I can only say that I will remain dedicated to telling inclusive and engaging stories, and pushing for fairness and equality in sport,” she told The Athletic. .
While trolling a soon-to-be 89-year-old is an idea of inclusivity for some, for others it leaves a sour taste.
But not for grapes.
“She was just trying to get some publicity and got her picture in the paper,” Cherry said. “I don’t mind. Now I know who she is.
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