Hey Ron Lose The Nicknames
By TSM Just when I was getting to warm up to Ron Wilson, thanks to two personal pieces on the coach, he speaks to the media in the manner that for some odd reason makes my skin crawl: “That was a...
View ArticleJust Another Manic Monday
By TSM A happy bday to the littlest TSM who turns all of 7 tomorrow! Hard to believe it was 7 years ago next month we returned to Toronto. So, I was thinking about all this negativity surrounding the...
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Morning Drive Lineups
By TSM Here’s your drive lineup for your listening enjoyment this am: On 590 with Greg Brady and Jim Lang: 720 Nick Kypreos 740 Patrick Lalime Goalie turned Nhl analyst 820 Dan Miller Lions pxp voice...
View ArticleToronto Maple Leafs vs. Toronto Sports Media; Getting Personal
By TSM It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. It was easy to write stories about the Maple Leafs when they were toiling around the basement of the NHL. Good news doesn’t really sell these days...
View ArticleIs Brian Burke To Soft On Toronto Maple Leafs Coach?
By TSM Quick hit before the big game. Anyone else catch this quote from Damien Cox in his blog post today?: “The dismissal of Martin, meanwhile, demonstrates the different standards of Montreal...
View ArticleMaple Leafs Wilson’s Extension All About Timing
by TSM Happy holidays all! Lots going on, so I won’t keep you long. The Ron Wilson extension is a fascinating story on so many levels: 1. How the story broke 2. Who broke the story 3. When the story...
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Morning Drive Lineups
By TSM Here’s your drive lineup for your listening enjoyment this am: On 590 with Greg Brady and Jim Lang: Matt Read 640 Nick Kypreos 720 Marty McSorely 8 Troy Crowder 825 Ron Wilson 840 On TSN radio...
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Sports Radio Lineups
by RobG Here’s your drive home lineups On Sportsnet 590 The FAN from 4-7pm, Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown. Damien Cox co-hosts from 5pm: 400 – Phones 520 – Pat Quinn and Neil Smith, in studio 540 –...
View ArticleToronto Maple Leafs Coverage
By TSM: The nice thing about being on the west coast is that when you wake up, it’s 3 hours later on the east coast, it gets quiet around 8pm as the east coast starts to go to bed and HNIC starts at...
View ArticleCoverage On New Maple Leaf Coach
By TSM It’s like being hit by a 2×4: Haven’t had a single story worth covering in months, so buckle up, here we go. All the coverage of the Leafs firing of Ron Wilson and the hiring of Randy Carlyle:...
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Weekend Roundup
By TSM “You had to hear the way Cherry pronounced “Toronto” the second time — “Tronna.” Nobody says Toronto that way any more, but Cherry is reaching back to something elemental in our civic memory....
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Rumblings
By TSM Here’s what I am reading this Monday night while my kids are sleeping: “Sitting at Randy (Kitty) Carlyle’s cottage on beautiful Manitoulin Island some five summers ago, Mark Chipman made a...
View ArticleThe Brian Burke Rebuild Twitter Style
By TSM It’s funny how quickly things change. Last week, the silence in the Toronto Sports Media world was deafening. Now, with the Buds eliminated from another spring dance, the media has come to life....
View ArticleOn Luke Schenn & Van Riemsdyk
by TSM It’s been a long time since there’s been a reason to write one of these. Here we go: James Mirtle at the Globe and Mail provided some quotes from Burke and James Van Riemsdyk: First Brian Burke:...
View ArticleShould The Blue Jays Extend John Farrell?
By TSM “Except that’s really not the answer. What the Blue Jays should have done by now is told Farrell they want to extend his contract by two more years. If he doesn’t want to do it? Move on. Get...
View ArticleAsk The Toronto Media Member- Damien Cox
by TSM It’s been a long, too long time since I asked you for questions, but now that summer is really over and the NHL lockout is REALLY on here we go again. I’ve edited down the questions, and Damien...
View ArticleSeen & Heard – Wednesday, March 27, 2013
by Rob G Hey folks, it’s been awhile since I posted something of substance, and apologies for that. Perhaps I was blinded by the Blue Jays “love-in” the past 2 weeks. Some might say I haven’t ever...
View ArticleAre Toronto Blue Jays Getting A Free Pass?
By TSM Good debate on Twitter tonight. Imagine if in the off season the Maple Leafs traded prized prospects and kids for a complete overhaul of the franchise. They fired their coach and brought back an...
View ArticleCraziest Day In Toronto Sports Media World
By TSM Wow. I really am at a loss for what has gone on over the last 14-15 hours in the world of Toronto sports media. There has to be a full moon or something. My day started with numerous emails and...
View ArticleToronto Sports Media Weekend
By TSM Man oh man it’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the whacky world we discuss here hasn’t it? Here I thought it would be dead around here with nothing to talk about after the Fan re-did...
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