Presenting Blueshirt Banter-Warning: Shameless plug alert

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT in New York Giants News

As most of you guys know, I am a diehard New York Ranger fan. When SBNation began sponsoring hockey blogs last year, I immediately threw my hat in the ring to run the Rangers site. If there is one thing I learned rooting for a hockey team that went 54 years between Stanley Cup Championships, its that good things come to those who wait.

So it is with great pleasure that I announce that beginning today, SBNation launches Blueshirt Banter, a blog about the Rangers hosted by yours truly. I'm really excited about the opportunity, Ranger fans are as passionate as Giants fans, and I expect running the site to be a great experience.

I'll still be co-writing here on Big Blue View. The Giants and Rangers are the two sports loves of my life, so the way I look at it is I've got the two best hobbies a guy could ask for, although at some point I still want to go fishing.

On that note, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ed, because if he didn't offer me the chance to co-write on Big Blue View, I would never have gotten a shot at hosting my own site. So thank you Ed, I am going to follow the example you've set for having a great team blog.

I would also like to thank all of you, the readers, because if you weren't enjoying what I write, Ed would have fired me and brought in shenkthetank.

So make sure and stop by Blueshirt Banter and say hi.

By the way, my son Jimmy came up with the concept for that snazzy logo you see up there.

Thanks again everyone,

Jim

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Grats

And +1 for the logo.

I only liked hockey when I was in College, it was the only sport my school was good at, and had any pride in.

by Woogie526 on Mar 19, 2009 11:38 AM EDT reply actions

Congrats, Jim

Great logo
Hope the Rangers will some day come up with players who can produce a latter day GAG line.

by blue gonz on Mar 19, 2009 12:45 PM EDT reply actions

Gilbert-Ratelle-Hadfield

that’s tough to compete with George

Giants and Rangers fan from the womb to the tomb
Blueshirt Banter and Big Blue View

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 19, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions

What skaters those two Frenchmen were.

After years of work, Emile Francis put together a team of fantastically gifted skaters and puck handlers, and Freddie Shero comes along with the Broad Street Bullies and keeps the Rangers from getting the Cup. In an earlier post I said guys like Gilbert and Ratelle might be too small to play today. What do you think? I believe they both had back injuries in the Juniors. Gilbert did for sure and later had spinal fusion surgery. It’s a wonder they made it to the NHL. Small,yes, but tough as nails.

by blue gonz on Mar 19, 2009 3:23 PM EDT reply actions