A few weeks back, the popular sports blog Hugging Harold Reynolds hosted a sportsblogging conference called Blogs With Balls right here in NYC. While attending something like that understandably sounds like a colossal exercise in dorkdom, I went and had a blast. Aside from enjoying the free Guinness that was flowing like wine, it gave me the chance to meet a few of the cats who runs things in the sports blogosphere like AJ Daulerio of Deadspin, Matt Ufford of With Leather and Bethlehem Shoals of FreeDarko/The Baseline. Plus, I got to booze it up with a lot of the NBA dudes that some Both Teamsters might be familiar with, like Zach Harper of TalkHoops/Cowbell Kingdom, Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm and Graydon Gordian of 48 Minutes of Hell.
All in all, good times.
One of the tangible things that came out of the weekend was the idea for a recurring podcast roundtable that would feature eight NBA bloggers, which for some reason had plans to include me. Well, against the odds, we actually made good on our beer-fueled plans to put this together and actually recorded the first episode the other day, which you can now listen to it in all its glory over at Project Spurs.
(A full archive of the podcasts will also gradually develop on a standalone site The8thSeed.com, so you can also bookmark that RSS for updates. Theoretically, there is an iTunes subscription as well.)
In addition to myself, The 8th Seed features Jeff Garcia and Mike De Leon of Project Spurs, John Karalis of Red’s Army, Rey Moralde from The No Look Pass, Adam Best of Fansided and Glenn Moore of the Dugout Sports Show. (Those of you who can count may recognize that that is only seven people. Zach Harper of Talk Hoops was supposed to be there but failed to show up, something that is explained/handled in a very NSFW fashion at the beginning of the podcast.)
Because a seven-person podcast doesn’t allow that much time for any individual to speak too too much and because, like Beanie, I’m not a talker, my airtime is somewhat limited. But I do manage to compare Tyler Hansbrough to a rich man’s Eduardo Najera, give a very articulate opinion on this year’s Draft class (”These guys all suck”), alienate some Bucks fans and drop the world “macroeconomic.” Ultimately, a pretty poor performance. I’ll probably get fired. Fortunately the other guys make up for my dim insight and bring a lot to the table.
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Cool stuff, Jared. The Tyler Hansbrough to a rich man’s Eduardo Najera was the highlight for me, actually. Glad stuff like this came out of BWB!