James Mirtle Joins SB Nation!
by Joe Dunman on Oct 20, 2008 10:13 AM MDT
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PrintBig news today, kids! James Mirtle, hockey writer for the Globe And Mail and blogger emeritus, has officially launched his new site at SB Nation. FromTheRink is essentially Mirtle 2.0, and will include all the cool features of every other hockey blog in the SBN network.
If you're unfamiliar with him (shame on you), he's one of the Big Four hockey bloggers, an elite group that includes Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy, Eric McErlain at the Fanhouse, and Paul Kukla of Kukla's Korner.
In addition to his usual great posts, Mirtle will be actively recruiting additional hockey blogs to either relocate to SBN or begin here anew. This is a great development for both the network and the hockey blogosphere in general!
Add his new blog to the list on your SBN profile page and be sure to drop him a comment welcoming him aboard.
Glad to have you with us, James!
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Sweet
I take back my comment (uh, somewhere, may have been in a game thread) about new hockey blogs on SB nation coming slowly. If anyone can speed up the process, its Mirtle.
InYoFace Phadouche! InYoFace
Thanks guys.
And at least 22 new blogs coming. You should see how many offers I’ve had already and the site’s been up for a little more than three hours…
Mirtle!!!!!
I can’t access your new site from work… This is a tragedy
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 20, 2008 12:18 PM MDT up reply actions
Is that an offer?
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 21, 2008 4:47 PM MDT up reply actions
Good news
I can now access the site from work. I have no idea why, but i’m not complaining.
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 23, 2008 10:59 AM MDT up reply actions
Awesome
I told Tyler that that is what would happen. Everyone wants to be one of Mirtle’s Merry Men.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
With the new visibility of SBN and hockey blogs, I am having visions of more fans participating in game threads and game threads filling so fast one can’t keep up – like Puck Daddy’s live threads. I worry too much.
Red Wings Suck
We’ll chalk it up to your plumbing…
Now and then we had the hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be PIRATES.
-Mark Twain-
by Americanario on Oct 20, 2008 12:32 PM MDT up reply actions
I'm worried about it.
One of the reasons I cooled my jets at places like Purple Row and Mile High Report was because the game threads became extremely popular. With the spike in popularity came the inevitable increase of people who don’t really know what they’re talking about keep on trying anyway.
by A.J. Haefele on Oct 20, 2008 2:42 PM MDT up reply actions
MHH can handle more. But I know what your talking about at Milehighreport. There is usually so many commenting that it gets really dragged down and well behind whats actually happening in the game.
InYoFace Phadouche! InYoFace
I’ve really grown fond of the what, like 15 people who are consistently here? We had a 300 comment game thread the other day that was driven by like, 4 or 5 people. Let’s hope the new people don’t suck =p
by A.J. Haefele on Oct 20, 2008 4:27 PM MDT up reply actions
Yeah, we definitely have a really great group of regular commentators here. I’m very proud.
Go Avs! Let's get some goals!
It is fun to have a few people who are respectful and have real contributions to thread. We can even disagree without the childish bickering that quickly caused me to be absent from the Avs home site forums and GDT’s. Hope that any new influx continues to be at the level of the current membership. If not that “Ban Hammer” is going to get messy….
Now and then we had the hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be PIRATES.
-Mark Twain-
by Americanario on Oct 20, 2008 5:56 PM MDT up reply actions
exactly. I haven’t seen many boards or game threads at other places where everyone got along so well. We can disagree and have our debates but it never turns into a poop slinging fest.
InYoFace Phadouche! InYoFace
Sometimes… theys gots to go
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 21, 2008 1:49 PM MDT up reply actions
How can you turn Mario, the personification of my youth, into an evil hammer wielding, underwear wearing, basement living Hockey fan?
26 Card Jet
Mario
Mario = Joe
Idiot Commenters = Goombas
(Yes this totally makes DD Luigi and Mike Toadstool.)
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 21, 2008 2:30 PM MDT up reply actions
See
I thought Toadstool looked like a goalie.. besides he’s obviously the best character in Mario 2 (don’t let anyone tell you Princess was with flying. Toadstool was the man)
I believe in Peter Budaj
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 21, 2008 2:50 PM MDT up reply actions
You’re youth was personified as a plumber wearing overalls that didn’t actually do ANY plumbing. Thats a weird youth there.
"To have arrived on this Earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony"
R. Leakey, Origins; 1977
"Two roads divurged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference"
R. Frost
Anyone have an Avs blog yet?
:)
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Oct 20, 2008 12:35 PM MDT reply actions
Oh SB Nation Gurus
Maybe I’m missing something, but there doesn’t seem to be a link from other parts of SB Nation to Mirtle’s high level hockey blog? This couldn’t be intentional, could it be? I mean, what’s the point of joining SB Nation without the interlinkage? Or am I missing something?
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 23, 2008 12:45 PM MDT reply actions
Oh, I see. It is under “General.” Wouldn’t it make more sense to have it under “Hockey?”
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 23, 2008 12:47 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m not a human factors engineer for nothing.
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 27, 2008 10:31 AM MDT up reply actions
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