This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them): How I Became a Professional Hock

Description: This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) by Steve 'Dangle' Glynn How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? From video blogging in his parents house at 19 to yelling on televisions at 28, Steve Dangle Glynn has been involved with some of the most important sports companies in the country. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Steve Dangles incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media star.How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve Dangle Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto, who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. From video blogging in his parents house at 19 to yelling on televisions across Canada at 28, Dangle has been involved with some of the most important sports companies in the country.In between tales of Steves adventures, both online and off, This Team Is Ruining My Life is also a kind of how-to (or how-not-to) guide: in an ever-evolving media landscape, sometimes you have to get creative to find the job you want. This is Steve Dangle and his accidentally on purpose journey through sports media so far. Back Cover Steve "Dangle" Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. In between tales of Steves adventures, both online and off, This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) is a kind of how-to (or how-not-to) guide: in an ever-evolving media landscape, sometimes you have to get creative to find the job you want. This is Steve Dangle and his accidentally on purpose journey through sports media... so far. "Folks always say to me, When "Coachs Corner" is on, no one in our house is allowed to talk. I reply, Neither am I. Now I find myself hushing my own household when Steve is on. Steve says hes taken a page from us, but I know its novel. Enjoy." -- Ron Maclean "Coachs Corner" "Its strange to call a 30-year-old a trailblazer, but thats what Steve Dangle is. He carved his way into the broadcasting world by taking his own unique, loud, and crazy path." -- Ken Reid, co-anchor, Sportsnet Central "A hilarious, inspiring account of how a kid who could barely skate managed to navigate a turbulent period in the Canadian media industry to become one of the most unique voices in our sport." -- Chris Johnston, senior hockey writer, Sportsnet "A wonderful look at the rickety ladder to success in sports media and how one can invent their own way of climbing it. Revel in Steves journey from irritated Leafs fan yelling into a webcam to irritated Leafs fan yelling into much more expensive cameras." -- Greg Wyshynski, senior NHL writer, ESPN This publication is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, or the National Hockey League. Flap Steve "Dangle" Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. In between tales of Steves adventures, both online and off, This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) is a kind of how-to (or how-not-to) guide: in an ever-evolving media landscape, sometimes you have to get creative to find the job you want. This is Steve Dangle and his accidentally on purpose journey through sports media... so far. "Folks always say to me, When "Coachs Corner" is on, no one in our house is allowed to talk. I reply, Neither am I. Now I find myself hushing my own household when Steve is on. Steve says hes taken a page from us, but I know its novel. Enjoy." -- Ron Maclean "Coachs Corner" "Its strange to call a 30-year-old a trailblazer, but thats what Steve Dangle is. He carved his way into the broadcasting world by taking his own unique, loud, and crazy path." -- Ken Reid, co-anchor, Sportsnet Central "A hilarious, inspiring account of how a kid who could barely skate managed to navigate a turbulent period in the Canadian media industry to become one of the most unique voices in our sport." -- Chris Johnston, senior hockey writer, Sportsnet "A wonderful look at the rickety ladder to success in sports media and how one can invent their own way of climbing it. Revel in Steves journey from irritated Leafs fan yelling into a webcam to irritated Leafs fan yelling into much more expensive cameras." -- Greg Wyshynski, senior NHL writer, ESPN This publication is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, or the National Hockey League. Author Biography Steve "Dangle" Glynn is a lifelong Leafs fan who began making YouTube videos about his favorite team when he was still a teen. Now he gets to work at Sportsnet for a living. (Still no Cup, though.) Steve and his wife have two wonderful dogs. They live together in the Shwa (Oshawa, Ontario). Review "An honest and entertaining book ... Its a must-read for young people considering a career in radio, television or online broadcasting." Centennial News"Folks always say to me, When Coachs Corner is on, no one in our house is allowed to talk. I reply, Neither am I. Now I find myself hushing my own household when Steve is on. Steve says hes taken a page from us, but I know its novel. Enjoy." -- Ron MacLean, Coachs Corner"Its strange to call a 30-year-old a trailblazer, but thats what Steve Dangle is. He carved his way into the broadcasting world by taking his own unique, loud, and crazy path." -- Ken Reid, bestselling author and co-anchor, Sportsnet Central"Steves book, This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them), is so good, it registered on Canadas nonfiction best-seller list before it was even released. A remarkable story of how if you love something enough and pour in the hours, you dont need to "get hired" or "be employed" in order to start your path to success." -- Sportsnet Review Quote "Steves book, This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them), is so good, it registered on Canadas nonfiction best-seller list before it was even released. A remarkable story of how if you love something enough and pour in the hours, you dont need to "get hired" or "be employed" in order to start your path to success." -- Sportsnet Excerpt from Book Do you have hockey scars? I only have one, though I dont recall getting it. I was about three and playing ball hockey in the driveway with the neighbor kids. As my mom remembers it, I ran inside crying and bleeding from the corner of my left eye. The game must have gotten crazy, or maybe it was just because I was a motor-mouthed hyperactive kid who hadnt developed proper balancing skills yet, because I had apparently ran into the brick corner of my garage. My mom patched me up, the tears soon stopped, and I started to run back outside. "Where are you going?" my mom asked. I yelled back, "I gotta finish the game!" Its what Don Cherry would call a "Good Ol Canadian Boy" moment--but sadly, I dont have one that relates to actual ice. Why? I never played the game. Ill get into the how and why of that a little bit later but it never really bothered me that I never played "real" hockey. OK, maybe it bothered me a little. I might have fantasized about scoring the Stanley Cup-winning goal as a kid but I knew I wasnt destined to be a star athlete. I wanted something different. I remember watching Coachs Corner as a kid. Do you know the opening scene in Anchorman, when Ron Burgundy is introduced? Theres a scene where Burgundy comes on the TV at a bar and a biker loudly shouts, "Hey, everybody! Shut the hell up! Ron Burgundys on!" That is exactly the way Don Cherry and Ron MacLean were treated in Canada in my childhood. When I was watching with my parents, aunts, uncles, and other family members, it was the same way. Ron and Don would appear in the first intermission and yell and scream at each other. Theres no way I understood what the hell they were talking about: what I was paying attention to, even from the age of four or five, was how the adults reacted. From one utterance to another, my family would go from laughing at Ron and Don to laughing with them. That was fascinating to me. As a kid, all you want is for grown-ups to pay attention to you and take you seriously. Every Saturday, Ron and Don had the attention of millions around the country. More importantly from my little perspective, they had the attention of every adult in my house. To me, that was just as incredible as any Doug Gilmour goal, any Wendel Clark hit, or any Felix Potvin flashy glove save. Fast forward about a of a quarter century later, Im sitting in a restaurant in Whitby, Ontario with three friends. I look up and Ron and Don are talking about Jarome Iginla on Coachs Corner. At least thats what I assumed they were talking about because the sound was off. A few minutes later, I looked down at my phone. I had text messages from 17 different people, missed calls, voicemails, and a bunch of Facebook notifications. Im not even kidding when I say my first thought was that somebody must have died. "OMG CALL ME RIGHT NOW!" my wife messaged me. About a dozen messages from others were some variation of "HOLY SHIT!!!" What had happened was Ron MacLean said my name on Coachs Corner live on Hockey Night in Canada. Apparently he had seen a video that I had made for Sportsnet about how Jarome Iginla should have been named one of the NHLs Top 100 players of all-time. "Weve never met Steve Dangle but he said he should have been one of the 100," Ron said. "Who?" Don interrupted. "Steve Dangle. Hes on Hockey Central every weeknight," Ron explained. Don then built off of that by talking about how it was ludicrous that Evgeni Malkin wasnt one of the Top 100 either but that was all I needed. So, how the hell did it happen? Whether youre a fan of mine, you cant stand me, or you have no idea who the hell I am, I want to give you my sincerest thanks for picking up this book. Time is precious and every single day there are new ways for us to spend it. The fact that you, whoever you are, would choose to spend some time on this book or listen to my manic hockey rants is truly an honour. I love reading books or hearing stories from hockey broadcasters about how they got to where they are. The trend with most of them however is that they tend to be older--in their 50s, 60s, 70s; not that theres anything wrong with that. After all, these books are from accomplished individuals who have lead interesting lives. What I think you might find interesting about this book is that I dont have the profile of those guys. I havent been on national television in Canada for three decades. In fact, I started writing this book at just 29-years-old, when Id only been out of my parents house for three years. Thats just it - Im still in the thick of it, trying to establish myself in sports media, an industry that appears to be shrinking every single day. If you are a younger person looking to establish yourself in sports, broadcasting, or anything else for that matter, my hope is that you will find the stories of me desperately trying to get my foot in the door over and over again relatable and proof that you should never give up. Likewise, Im going to open up and be vulnerable with you by explaining all of the dumb mistakes Ive made while trying to stick my foot in as many sports broadcasting doors as possible. My hope is that you can read about my silly mistakes and learn from them. If nothing else, I hope they make you laugh. And if youre a bit older? Well, I hope this gives you a better idea of what younger people are going through right now as they try to establish their own career and identity. Im also pretty sure you will find many of the stories in this book relatable as well, because even though industries and technology are constantly evolving, humans are still just human... Some of us just yell more than others. Description for Sales People Short Description How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? From video blogging in his parents house at 19 to yelling on televisions at 28, Steve Dangle Glynn has been involved with some of the most important sports companies in the country. Sales and Market Bullets Steve "Dangle" Glynn has over 116,000 followers on Twitter. He is the author of The Steve Dangle Blog on Sportsnet. The Steve Dangle Podcast receives an average of 40,000-50,000 listens per episode. Steve has over 85,000 subscribers on YouTube with views ranging between 25k and 100k per video. Audience Leafs fans Sports media readers Age 18-50+ Details ISBN1770414444 Publisher ECW Press,Canada ISBN-10 1770414444 ISBN-13 9781770414440 Format Paperback Imprint ECW Press,Canada Subtitle How I Became a Professional Hockey Fan Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada DEWEY 796.962092 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-03-19 Author Steve Dangle Glynn Pages 344 Language English Audience General AU Release Date 2019-03-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137405175;

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