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Media Thread

herman said:
There's a bit of smoke in the air at the moment.

On the 18th, POS blew up on air, belittling Andi (more than usual), the Leafs, fans, any differences of opinion, and literally invited them to not tune in (which I'd imagine is the opposite of what you want in media).

That night, his Twitter bio was edited to remove TSN employment reference. He hasn't been on Leafs Lunch since.

Today, Andi mentioned the 'new guy' starts next Friday or something like that (I'm getting this second hand).

Then there's this:
https://twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857
www.twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857

where @yyzsportsmedia's response is "details forthcoming".

More likely reason: Babcock went to Lou to defend Hyman's honour, and Lou took care of business as usual.
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I don't mine someone on radio who provides a different opinion and isn't just a Leafs fan that will praise anything they do, but O'Sullivan was very difficult to listen to at times.  I think Overdrive has the right mix of objective views...Hayes is the most fanboy of the 3, but he'll criticize the Leafs when it's warranted.  O'Neill is a fan too but he gets disillusioned quickly when things go wrong and Noodles is the most objective and gives other players who aren't Leafs props all the time.  That being said they all have a good rapport together and the show runs smoothly.  On Leafs lunch, POS was just confrontational alot of the time, complaining about fans, and also got snippy with Andi on occasion, it was just not pleasant to listen to.
 
Good riddance. I can't recall anybody in the hockey media to ever do the type of 180 he did in terms of his general demeanour and how he interacts with fans in such a small amount of time before.
 
Zee said:
herman said:
There's a bit of smoke in the air at the moment.

On the 18th, POS blew up on air, belittling Andi (more than usual), the Leafs, fans, any differences of opinion, and literally invited them to not tune in (which I'd imagine is the opposite of what you want in media).

That night, his Twitter bio was edited to remove TSN employment reference. He hasn't been on Leafs Lunch since.

Today, Andi mentioned the 'new guy' starts next Friday or something like that (I'm getting this second hand).

Then there's this:
https://twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857
www.twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857

where @yyzsportsmedia's response is "details forthcoming".

More likely reason: Babcock went to Lou to defend Hyman's honour, and Lou took care of business as usual.
Click to expand...

I don't mine someone on radio who provides a different opinion and isn't just a Leafs fan that will praise anything they do, but O'Sullivan was very difficult to listen to at times.  I think Overdrive has the right mix of objective views...Hayes is the most fanboy of the 3, but he'll criticize the Leafs when it's warranted.  O'Neill is a fan too but he gets disillusioned quickly when things go wrong and Noodles is the most objective and gives other players who aren't Leafs props all the time.  That being said they all have a good rapport together and the show runs smoothly.  On Leafs lunch, POS was just confrontational alot of the time, complaining about fans, and also got snippy with Andi on occasion, it was just not pleasant to listen to.
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x2 I enjoy intelligent and opinionated, but good natured.
 
herman said:
There's a bit of smoke in the air at the moment.

On the 18th, POS blew up on air, belittling Andi (more than usual), the Leafs, fans, any differences of opinion, and literally invited them to not tune in (which I'd imagine is the opposite of what you want in media).

That night, his Twitter bio was edited to remove TSN employment reference. He hasn't been on Leafs Lunch since.

Today, Andi mentioned the 'new guy' starts next Friday or something like that (I'm getting this second hand).

Then there's this:
https://twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857
www.twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/855462745222905857

where @yyzsportsmedia's response is "details forthcoming".

More likely reason: Babcock went to Lou to defend Hyman's honour, and Lou took care of business as usual.
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You should be careful.
 
"See you in a couple days."

Mike Babcock said this to every staff-member at Verizon Center as he walked to the team bus.
 
Media is changing so rapidly now. As a print guy, I see my client base evaporating, and the strange thing is although we have great social media, no one really wants to pay the price for it.
For a company like ESPN to cut 100 top people that is saying something. 
 
Highlander said:
Media is changing so rapidly now. As a print guy, I see my client base evaporating, and the strange thing is although we have great social media, no one really wants to pay the price for it.
For a company like ESPN to cut 100 top people that is saying something.
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So long as people expect to get professional content for free on the Web, it's a losing fight. 
 
This isn't about people not going to espn.com to read Lebrun or the other low-salaried beat reporters they let go, this is just an opening salvo in the very real problem with how broadcast rights have been overvalued. ESPN is in a bind because people are cutting off cable subscriptions while still being obligated to pay leagues billions of dollars.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Highlander said:
Media is changing so rapidly now. As a print guy, I see my client base evaporating, and the strange thing is although we have great social media, no one really wants to pay the price for it.
For a company like ESPN to cut 100 top people that is saying something.
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So long as people expect to get professional content for free on the Web, it's a losing fight.
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They do, they have Nik and the Herminator
 
https://twitter.com/ArponBasu/status/861661903990534145
www.twitter.com/ArponBasu/status/861661903990534145

Where's the fire emoji?
 
Should Crosby win the Stanley Cup, it will have been the third in his career.  Also, should Pittsburgh win it, they will have been the first team in the salary cap era to have done so.


The last back-to-back Cup winners were the Detroit Red Wings of 1997 & 1998.


http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/crosby-penguins-chasing-back-back-stanley-cups-well-history/
 
https://twitter.com/HockeyHangout/status/874214040708558849
Hilarious and cringe-worthy. The fruits of more than a decade of bumbling in Long Island.
 
I forgot how stupid Bill Watters is cause I haven't heard him in a number of years. Heard an interview he did on a podcast with Mike In Buffalo and man, his hot takes are ridiculous. Too many to break down here but in short:

Leafs can never win with Gardiner, trade him

Nylander is too soft, trade him

Babcock is the defacto GM of the main team and will only report to Shanahan

And on and on
 
Zee said:
I forgot how stupid Bill Watters is cause I haven't heard him in a number of years. Heard an interview he did on a podcast with Mike In Buffalo and man, his hot takes are ridiculous. Too many to break down here but in short:

Leafs can never win with Gardiner, trade him

Nylander is too soft, trade him

Babcock is the defacto GM of the main team and will only report to Shanahan

And on and on
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He hasn't been proven wrong yet ;)

Also, isn't Kypreos just a younger, less hammered version?
 
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