Editor’s note: Sean Spence is the managing editor at Hot Time In Old Town. Shipp, of course, enjoyed two productive seasons with the Chicago Fire before being traded last offseason to the Montreal Impact.
Let’s keep this so terribly honest as to be terrifying. So, confession: Almost everything I’m about to say I’ve said before, probably more lyrically, in this piece entitled ‘Harry the Hook.’
Second confession: I’m writing the second of these pieces in as many years, and I really, really didn’t expect to have to write one ever.