Being in media has altered the way I watch sports, and not for the better. Not. At. All. It used to be that information could wash over my brain, then recede like a wave, after having absorbed the event without ever really doing much mental work. But these days, particularly since I’ve started doing 10+ hours of talk radio every week, that’s no longer the case. As events happen, my media Take Machine absorbs those same events, but asks this of them: what does that mean? What do you think of that, how did that make you feel? Do we have anything we can use here?



When there’s something “useable,” talking points are created, article ideas are formulated and research on that idea needs to be done. Sometimes that research will reveal just how wrong my gut is on something. “I feel like that guy has brick hands” can often lead me to a page on Elite Prospects or HockeyDB showing that said player had like 128 points in 48 games in the QMJHL or...