The Roll Continues
March 31st, 2008 by MikeBig Joe put one in only 15 seconds in, and the Sharks continued to roll, effortlessly. The Sharks easily set the franchise record for most wins in a month, with 13. They’ve gotten 32 out of a possible 34 points in the last 17 games. You’re not going to see another streak like this in the NHL for a while, folks. It’s time to enjoy it a little.
Looks like grier and I are both eating some crowe on the Clowe situation, haha. And we discovered last night why neither of us are running the Sharks. This guy just made the Sharks even better, and the rest of the West must be swallowing hard right now. This is a team clicking big time, with the depth to bounce back from a physical series. And the way things are looking, we’ll get one in the first round against Calgary, easily the toughest team in the bottom four seeds.
Just wanted to give a little more detail on the blogger contest. Here’s the link to the archive. The way it’s going is they have a blog post with the two entries of a given matchup - it looks like they are working their way through the “Northeast” bracket right now. Then there’s a second post on who won the matchup. They’ve decided to do three matchups per day, Monday through Friday. Even at that rate, we might not even see grier’s this week. But let’s put it this way, it’ll make an impression. If you read the “articles” they’ve posted so far, all have a certain tone, style, and pacing that is fairly “professional” in nature. I put that in quotes because it seems the entrants are trying to write for a newspaper, not a blog. Personally, I like the casual style of blog posts, and the entry you will see from grier reflects that style. I’d put the chances of that backfiring pretty high, but we don’t care. We aren’t getting paid enough to care. It’d be nice to win some matchups or the whole contest, but if that means the posts have to to adhere to some style guide or usage document, no thanks. Homogeneity is not a selling point.
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2 Responses to “The Roll Continues”
By GeneralDisarray on Mar 31, 2008
I’m with you, Mike. When I want to read game summaries and academic opinion articles on the Sharks, I read the Mercury. It’s the perfect source for that type of material. I read Sharks blogs to get the opinions and emotions of the proverbial “fan in the stands”.
Blogs can’t generally compete with the experience, expertise, and budget of a major market newspaper. They can, and should, compete with their heartfelt opinions and unfiltered speech.
Wishing Griersy the best of luck in the competition. Represent San Jose well.
By Mike on Apr 1, 2008
Thanks for the comments GD. The only way you’d mistake grier’s first post for a newspaper article is if you were on crack.