Media Thread

[maplesyrup]

Kypreos just showed up at my work... I'm 15' from him right now.... Want to say Hi but for some reason I feel a bit weird about it...  :-\ 

 

[Andy007]

Kypreos just showed up at my work... I'm 15' from him right now.... Want to say Hi but for some reason I feel a bit weird about it...  :-\

You work as a speech therapist? 

 

[maplesyrup]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

 

[Bender]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

You don't seem to be at all shy on the boards.

 

[maplesyrup]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

You don't seem to be at all shy on the boards.

It's different in here... I'm actually in customer service and feel comfortable with it but when it comes to stuff like that I just clam up. Had I served him, I would have been fine but just going up and saying Hi? different story. I don't know why. You should  have seen me last year... I wrote about my experience in a small room with a bunch of Hall of Famers when I was invited to the after party of the Oldtimers Hockey Challenge at the York Regional police's private club. It was amazing and everything but I was nervous wreck when introducing myself and posing for pictures.  :-\   

 

[maplesyrup]

Nice to see other media guys take Simmons to task when the opportunity presents itself;

simmonssteve steve simmons
In my view, Carlyle is a better coach for Kings than Sutter: Both are hard asses. One has a Stanley Cup ring as a coach.
15 minutes ago

(followed by)

SportsnetSpec Mark Spector Sports
@
@simmonssteve Carlyle wins Cup, while Sutter goes to Game 7 and loses tight game. Is that REALLY a decisive factor?
2 minutes ago

 

[ZBBM]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

You don't seem to be at all shy on the boards.

It's different in here... I'm actually in customer service and feel comfortable with it but when it comes to stuff like that I just clam up. Had I served him, I would have been fine but just going up and saying Hi? different story. I don't know why. You should  have seen me last year... I wrote about my experience in a small room with a bunch of Hall of Famers when I was invited to the after party of the Oldtimers Hockey Challenge at the York Regional police's private club. It was amazing and everything but I was nervous wreck when introducing myself and posing for pictures.  :-\ 

You know, I have a theory about this.  You're not shy; you just have personal boundaries that you don't want others to transgress.  IMO a healthy thing.  Whereas celebrities, in their quest for fame, have intentionally let fall away any personal boundaries.  (Think Kardashians for the extreme example of this.)  And so you, as a more fastidious and self-regarding person, naturally recoil at the vulgarity that necessarily attends celebrity.

That, I argue, is a perfectly natural reaction and one that you should be proud of. 

 

[Tigger]

Shouldn't the Sutter-Carlyle debate be framed around a picture of Pronger?

 

[maplesyrup]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

You don't seem to be at all shy on the boards.

It's different in here... I'm actually in customer service and feel comfortable with it but when it comes to stuff like that I just clam up. Had I served him, I would have been fine but just going up and saying Hi? different story. I don't know why. You should  have seen me last year... I wrote about my experience in a small room with a bunch of Hall of Famers when I was invited to the after party of the Oldtimers Hockey Challenge at the York Regional police's private club. It was amazing and everything but I was nervous wreck when introducing myself and posing for pictures.  :-\ 

You know, I have a theory about this.  You're not shy; you just have personal boundaries that you don't want others to transgress.  IMO a healthy thing.  Whereas celebrities, in their quest for fame, have intentionally let fall away any personal boundaries.  (Think Kardashians for the extreme example of this.)  And so you, as a more fastidious and self-regarding person, naturally recoil at the vulgarity that necessarily attends celebrity.

That, I argue, is a perfectly natural reaction and one that you should be proud of.

Hey thanks! Yeah, part of it was that he was already being bugged by a bunch of guys. Hard to know if he was enjoying that or just playing nice. Anyway, again... thanks for the kind words.

 

[Kin]

Nice to see other media guys take Simmons to task when the opportunity presents itself;

simmonssteve steve simmons
In my view, Carlyle is a better coach for Kings than Sutter: Both are hard asses. One has a Stanley Cup ring as a coach.
15 minutes ago

(followed by)

SportsnetSpec Mark Spector Sports
@
@simmonssteve Carlyle wins Cup, while Sutter goes to Game 7 and loses tight game. Is that REALLY a decisive factor?
2 minutes ago

I agree with Spector but I think the mistake Simmons makes here is one a ton of people make regarding the over-importance of one championship on someone's resume.

 

[Deebo]

I HATE being a shy person.  :-[

You don't seem to be at all shy on the boards.

It's different in here... I'm actually in customer service and feel comfortable with it but when it comes to stuff like that I just clam up. Had I served him, I would have been fine but just going up and saying Hi? different story. I don't know why. You should  have seen me last year... I wrote about my experience in a small room with a bunch of Hall of Famers when I was invited to the after party of the Oldtimers Hockey Challenge at the York Regional police's private club. It was amazing and everything but I was nervous wreck when introducing myself and posing for pictures.  :-\ 

You know, I have a theory about this.  You're not shy; you just have personal boundaries that you don't want others to transgress.  IMO a healthy thing.  Whereas celebrities, in their quest for fame, have intentionally let fall away any personal boundaries.  (Think Kardashians for the extreme example of this.)  And so you, as a more fastidious and self-regarding person, naturally recoil at the vulgarity that necessarily attends celebrity.

That, I argue, is a perfectly natural reaction and one that you should be proud of.

Hey thanks! Yeah, part of it was that he was already being bugged by a bunch of guys. Hard to know if he was enjoying that or just playing nice. Anyway, again... thanks for the kind words.

Kypreos' son used to have hockey games right after mine at the rink that I played rec league at, he was always surrounded by a group of middle-aged men.

It must get old for him.

 

[maplesyrup]

Simmons reply;

simmonssteve steve simmons
Twitter is 140 characters. Columns average more than 4000 char. Can't be debating issues of consequence here. Just offering quick snippets.
6 minutes ago

So, Mr. Simmons, why bother tweeting your opinion if it's not an accurate representation of how you feel then? Idiot.

 

[Sudafederov]

A nice Burkeshot in Steve's general direction.

http://tinyurl.com/6vsdz2e

?I don?t pick those fights,? Burke says. ?The media pick those fights. My relationship with the media is excellent. With certain members of the media that, in my mind, aren?t professional, it?s not very good and it never will be. I don?t ever want to be on good terms with unprofessional people. And if that means we have a clash with people who work for the owners, then we have a clash. I?m not going to change how I do things based on who owns the team.?

 

[Optimus Reimer]

A nice Burkeshot in Steve's general direction.

http://tinyurl.com/6vsdz2e

?I don?t pick those fights,? Burke says. ?The media pick those fights. My relationship with the media is excellent. With certain members of the media that, in my mind, aren?t professional, it?s not very good and it never will be. I don?t ever want to be on good terms with unprofessional people. And if that means we have a clash with people who work for the owners, then we have a clash. I?m not going to change how I do things based on who owns the team.?

When will the media types realize they are not dealing with a puppet GM with no testicular fortitude? 

It would be okay if the media types reported fairly what is going on in Leaf land, whether it was critical or not of the organization or individuals within the organization, but at least be fair and accurate about it.  That would improve the rapport between the reporters and those responsible in the organization.

 

[Corn Flake]

By all accounts, Burke is more available to the media than most GMs in pro sports. The guy does all sorts of interviews each week, many longer-winded pieces including that one done by the Score (barn fight, etc) where he reveals all sorts of candid information and stories that you never hear from other execs, and everything he went through with his son, he was still available and open.

If certain members of the media have alienated the guy then they have done so out of their own stupidity and poor choices of words in print. Too bad for them.  The Sun and many of their writers past and present (Strachan, Simmons) have been despised by sports execs in this town - hockey in particular.  All they do is burn bridges and blame others for starting the fire.

 

[Optimus Reimer]

I live outside Ottawa and the media compared to that in Toronto is absolutely stupid.  A bunch of morons.  A couple of weeks ago, an Ottawa Sun writer, not sure who it was gave a top 5 list as to why the Senators will make the playoffs.  Sure, Ottawa has done better than a lot expected, but for them to make the playoffs, I ruptured my spleen laughing so hard.  They said the reasons were Alfreddson, Craig Anderson, their coach and I forget the other 2 reasons, I guess they weren't important.  No.  Ottawa will not make the playoffs.  There are too many better teams ahead of them. 

While you guys deal with obnoxious idiots, I have to deal with stupid idiots.

 

[hockeyfan1]

The media in Toronto are an embarrassment.  Both the Sun and
the Star. Between the constant garbage that comes out of
SunMediaCor and the whiny tirades back and forth with Rob Ford.

in the Star....as much as I hate Rob Ford, their editor is
going out of their way to post insanely irrelevant photos and captions on every single Ford story.

Someone needs to hold the media accountable for becoming a bunch of arrogant blowhards.

It's insane how far it's moved from a source of news reporting to tabloid garbage - and this is in regards to
pretty much everything outside of maybe Christopher Hume and Carol Goar.

Someone once said that "the media does not report the news the way it should be reported, but rather, to sell papers".

 

[Deebo]

Jay Onrait and Dan O?Toole to Leave TSN

http://t.co/himF4kBPpw

 

[oakl0008]

Jay Onrait and Dan O?Toole to Leave TSN

http://t.co/himF4kBPpw

Thank you for this Deebo.

Woa!  These guys have been fixtures at TSN for ages!

 

[hockeyfan1]

Wow, alright!  Gonna miss 'em!