Blogapalooza II Reflection

Posted on November 09, 2010 by Carl Desberg

This past Saturday, November 6th, a group of 125+ like-minded individuals gathered at the Baseball Tavern on Boylston Street. It was a great networking event, as well as an opportunity to kick it and relax.

The beers were flowing, food was being consumed, and the chatter was all things Boston sports!

The afternoon was full of people exchanging business cards and opinions, as well as a lot of listening to informative panels. Five panels in all were going on during the mid-afternoon which included the lovely CSNNE Sports Net Central’s Carolyn Manno moderating. The panels included talk about the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, and even a social media segment.

I myself partook in the Patriots panel and it was a wonderful opportunity. It’s one thing to give my opinion to my buddies when watching a game, but it was a humbling experience to get up in-front of a hundred people and several cameras; a wonderful chance for bloggers. It was almost as if we were the “experts” like those dishing out their opinions on ESPN, CSNNE, or NESN.

Many have encountered chances to grow from the event. I myself will be a guest on Matthew Noonan’s podcast on Noontimesports.com on Thursday. John Karalis of Red’s Army made an appearance on WCRN Worcester on Sunday. Not to mention all of the other connections people made Saturday.

I was looking very forward to the event and it was everything I imagined and more. I am looking forward to May, but hopefully won’t have to wait until then to see some of the great individuals I met.

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Vintage Athlete Of The Month: Andy Brickley
April 21, 2012 | 11:06 am

Andy Brickley

Andy Brickley’s voice is familiar throughout New England and to those of us out-of-market fans who get the NESN broadcasts via the NHL’s Center Ice package. Brickley is the top TV analyst for Boston Bruins’ hockey games. Most fans know he was a part of Boston’s 1989-90 teams that reached the Stanley Cup Finals. What many fans may not know is how hard Brickley has had to work for everything in his career. To pay tribute to his effort and to acknowledge his tremendous contributions to the culture of Boston Bruins hockey is why he is BST&N’s Vintage Athlete Of The Month for April.

The need to prove himself to skeptics started right away in college. Brickley went to school at New Hampshire, but had to walk on the hockey team. He made the squad and played all four years, from 1979-82. By the end of his career he had made first-team All-American and led New Hampshire to the Frozen Four in his senior year.

Two years into his college career he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft, but by the skin of his teeth—Brickley was the final player chosen in a 210-player draft, going to the Philadelphia Flyers. He began his pro career there in the fall of 1982, but a year later he was traded to Pittsburgh, as part of a package involving multiple players and draft picks.

By rights, this should have been the point when his career took off. He scored 18 goals in 50 games, the highest goal output of his career and also had 12 assists. But he ended up demoted to the minor leagues for the egregious sin of breaking curfew. To put the early 1980s in perspective, this was a time when frequent reports of players’ cocaine addictions were becoming public—in all sports. Seen in that light, the idea of demoting Brickley because he broke curfew seems absurd beyond belief.

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