Media Bracket: Pang vs. Ackerman
by Brad Lee on Jul 27, 2010 8:00 AM CDT
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We return to the never ending first round of our media match-up bracket showdown vote-a-rama thing. In case you missed vote after vote after vote last week, we've taken 32 mainstream media people here in St. Louis (there's actually more than that if you can believe it) that remotely cover the Blues, we ranked them, we put those rankings in a bracket and we roll them out for a vote. See who wins. It's not even August yet. NHL training camp isn't even a glimmer in the players' eyes. Roll with it.
Half the first round is done. I'm sure it will move much faster than this the rest of the way. Up next is a radio guy against a TV guy. Baldness vs. wonderful hair. Let's see who wins.
No. 2 Seed Doug Wickenheiser Group
Darren Pang - Color commentator Fox Sports Midwest
Before becoming the analyst for Blues television broadcasts in the 2009-10 season, Pang was the analyst for Phoenix Coyotes games on a nightly basis as well as holding down several national gigs. He has been featured this summer on TSN's Free Agent Frenzy show. Previously the former diminutive Blackhawk goaltender worked for NBC as the reporter on the glass before the network found a taller bald Canadian. He also broadcast games for ABC, ESPN and NBC at the 2002 Olympics. Full disclosure: he was the best man in Steve Yzerman's wedding.
No. 7 Seed Doug Wickenheiser Group
Tom Ackerman - Host KMOX 1120 AM
Ackerman was primary host of Sports Open Line for several years before becoming sports director at KMOX. He does sports updates for the Total Information A.M. radio show as well as some work on broadcasts surrounding Blues games. The St. Louis native has worked a number of basketball broadcasts for the University of Missouri system in Columbia and St. Louis. He got his start broadcasting games for the University of Indiana. Full disclosure: he has wonderful hair.
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Remember, polls close in 48 hours here in the first round. You like one more than the other? Make your case down in the comments.
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sorry but
this media tourney thing is a total limp bizkit wankfest.
by mikefuckingdantonthatswhy on Jul 27, 2010 10:38 AM CDT reply actions
You might be right
But from now until September, there’s nothing happening. So it’s this or crickets chirping. While you may prefer the symphony of crickets, I think this will get interesting after the first round.
www.stlouisgametime.com
I will never understand why
people on the internet actually make a deliberate effort to make a comment on a topic (presumably after they’ve taken the time to READ said topic)…just to say “This sucks.”
If you don’t like it, don’t read it. It’s not like SLGT Management tricked you into reading something you didn’t want to read.
Not to mention the fact that you apparently read this site regularly, and thus take advantage of the work that Juan, Brad, the Prospect Dept., and the Link Experts do for our entertainment. You contribute nothing of your own that I can see, but are all too quick to bitch & moan about the first thing YOU don’t like…at a time when numerous other hockey blogs are veritable ghost towns right now.
/soapbox
Then leave....
it’s really quite simple. Go to www.stltoday.com and complain there
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High praise indeeded for me
'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.'
MARK VIDUKA
This is a hard on for me
Yeah I know Panger is all hockey all the time but other than Blues games what does he do to on our mediawaves to promote the Blues, especially during the off season.
I really like Ackerman as an all around sports guy. He’s worked his way up in the media world in all aspects and he’s a local.
As sports director at KMOX he made the decision to put hockey on Wed nights when there is NOTHING going on anywhere in hockey.
I know Panger will win so I’m givin’ Ack some love.
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
^^ This ^^
Tough first-round draw for Ackerman. He deserves to go on to at least the second round, but putting him up against Panger is like matching the Toledo Walleye (yes, that’s actually Chicago’s ECHL affiliate) vs. the Blackhawks.
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
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by Tomorrows Blues on Jul 27, 2010 11:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Why does he deserve to go to the second round?
Half the people in this thing will lose in the first round. Unless you’re really devoted to covering the Blues, I think it will be really hard to get past round one.
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Okay. That didn't work out as I planned.
WHAT I MEANT TO SAY: It’s kind of a tough loss for Ackerman. He’s the St. Louis guy, but he doesn’t have enough hockey-credit to win in a hockey-fan’s bracket. Pang, while just coming into St. Lou, wins out because he’s the bigger guy in the hockey-news industry.
^^ This ^^
…is what I meant by saying that Ackerman deserved to make the second round.
B.
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Jul 27, 2010 1:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Nobody’s going to make a “hard on” joke?
What the hell, Game Timers?
No beer and no TV make Homer...something something.
by Poor College Student on Jul 27, 2010 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought it.
But as a fellow member of the “Oh, God, that came out wrong” club, I decided to give a pass on that one.
Thrashing the Blues
SB Nation Atlanta - home of the Fairest and Weatheriest fans on the net.
Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?
Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.
How hard was it?
Blue steel hard? So hard a cat couldn’t scratch it?
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
Well, if it's Blue Steel hard...
… does that mean that it can turn left?
Thrashing the Blues
SB Nation Atlanta - home of the Fairest and Weatheriest fans on the net.
Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?
Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.
best man at stevie ys wedding.. and a blackhawk... i voted for ackermann
After 5 No-Dozes I feel great.. only except that i can hear my ears.. and I believe that toenails are the funniest thing I have ever seen.
Come Root on the blues at
www.stlouisgametime.com
Those must've been awkward wedding photos.
Did Panger have to stand on an orange crate?
Thrashing the Blues
SB Nation Atlanta - home of the Fairest and Weatheriest fans on the net.
Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?
Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.
It's not like Yzerman's a giant, either...
"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."
-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851
http://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Jul 27, 2010 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Voted for Ackerman
1) Never heard his shows
2) Don’t know anything about him
3) Don’t really care that he’s St. Louis native (ok, care a little)
But pretty sure he’s never said “holy jumpin” during a Blues game so he gets my vote.
Bottom Line...
You fuck with Ax you fuck with AM.
Holy jumpin’ knows a shit ton about the game but Ax is my boy and we have rolled on some honies in the past. I forever have the dude’s back.
North Co! North Co! North Co!
Another landslide.
St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.
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