I typically write this column in the confines of The Clock office, or in my bedroom on Highland Street (typically, I am in the office though). This column is usually written at 1 or 2 in the morning, but today, I am writing this column at 4 in the afternoon in the broadcast meteorology room with my main man Chris Harle. Chris is currently putting together his slides for his practice forecast, and I am here to help him, as well as give him morale support (whichever way his practicing goes). It is nice to be back in a television “studio” after being there for much of Winter Break.
For those of you who don’t know (though, if you are reading this, I am sure you do), I had an internship up in Burlington, Vermont under the supervision of Michael Page. I was able to get this internship through the connection of Twitter (thanks Rob Blount), and eventually got to e-mailing Michael back-and-forth. I eventually got up to Burlington, and started the internship on January 5th. Over the two and a half week span that I was at the station, I learned A TON of stuff, and was able to capture some footage for my demo tape (just YouTube Eric Brill if you have yet to see it). Michael isn’t much older than me, but he was extremely professional with everything he did, and has FANTASTIC skill with the broadcast meteorology stuff. I was able to pick his brain big time, and have become so much more knowledgeable of so many things pertaining to weather, broadcast, and the industry within itself. I wrote a bunch of notes on my laptop, and I have no desire to share all of them with other people, as I don’t want other people to pick up some tricks that I was able to learn.
Since this is a sports column, I guess I have to talk a little bit about that. Start off with Plymouth sports, and it is interesting to see the winter teams evolve over the duration of break. The Men’s hockey team was like a roller coaster, while the women’s hockey team has progressed over the past few weeks. Men’s basketball was able to defeat the #22 ranked team in the nation (in Eastern Connecticut State University), while the Women’s basketball team has been on a tough slide over the past few games. Both ski teams are progressing as the season goes on, and the wrestling team has had varying results, and last, but not least, the swimming and diving team had a three match win streak in January. As the regular season starts to come to an end for these teams, watch for each team to obviously look to improve their record for their respective post-season.
In other Irrelevant (though I find interesting) sports news:
–Super Bowl 49 came, and went, and ended with a controversial call by the Seattle Seahawks at the end of the game. The ‘hawks let WAY too much time run off the clock on their last offensive play, and that ultimately led to their failure. New England fans were able to rejoice, as their team was able to get the win for their first February victory in over a decade.
-The NHL all-star game is more of a joke than the Pro Bowl is for the NFL.
-Early Super Bowl 50 prediction? Indianapolis Colts over the Green Bay Packers.
-Very surprised to see how well the Atlanta Hawks have done the past couple of months. With that said, watch for the Cleveland Cavaliers to still come out of the Eastern Conference.
-Go Spurs go, and hopefully they will beat the Miami Heat on Friday night!! I’ll be pumped, along with my boy Tyler Cote.
Non-Sports Information of the Week:
-Rest in piece, John Scannell.
Rant of the Week: Went to go design my own sports section for this week’s paper, but had all of my ideas belittled or put down. Wasn’t too thrilled about it, since it is obviously my section, so that resulted in me not being in a real “peachy” mood.
-Can’t believe it has already rolled around to February. Crazy how time flies.
-Also pretty surprised as to how much snow has fallen over the past twoish weeks. Near Boston, Massachusetts has seen over five feet of snow over that span!
-Disappointed at myself that I have been skiing only once this winter. I obviously plan on going more once I get into a flow of my schedule.
-Went snowmobiling with my father last weekend, and doing things like that allow me to really appreciate the little things in life.
-The Military Appreciation jerseys that the Plymouth State hockey team had last weekend were BADASS.
-Ormsbee, come back to Plymouth.
-Annoys me when people I send e-mails to for “:10 Seconds” take forever to answer my e-mails. It shocks me that people don’t check their e-mail at least daily, or don’t want to be featured within the article.
-Congrats to Women’s Lacrosse Coach Kristin Tracy on announcing herself and Bryan Tracy will be welcoming their second child into the world in July!
-For what it’s worth, I haven’t seen that cop that gave Steve Swiatlowski and myself a tough time back in December.
-Nice to hear that Pom in the dining hall is still kickin, via my boy Matt Cann.
-Writing these columns just aren’t the same as they use to be. I split this column in half between where I wrote it, as I am back in The Clock office. The office just doesn’t have the same feeling that it use to.
-With that said, I am intrigued to see how my protégé Justin Siewierski.
-PUMPED to go skiing with Chris Harle and Matt Cann at Whiteface in early March. Should be an absolute blast to hang with “my boys!”
-I think I need to form a broomball team with some members of the BICE.
-Conor Davis and myself should have quite the time over in California in March. He’s a great person, and I look forward to hanging with him on the West coast.
-Always curious as to whom has read these bad boys since I started writing them. Always appreciate the fact that you have scrolled/read down this far into this article.
Real Talk with Eric- Go on adventures while you are young, as you won’t have the ability to do so once you get older.
‘Til two weeks from now, I’m outta here…..